Yesterday afternoon I was listening to the radio station of Columbia University here in NYC. They were playing three hours of music by a favorite sax player of mine named Oliver Lake. One of the tunes was called Passin’ Thru.…
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Yearly Archives: 2013
There is no Try
In this clip Yoda teaches the greatest lesson. Don’t try! Do! Line up your action with your intention and there is no trying (which means no struggle, no trial as in testing or inquisition). If you watch the rest of…
Tagged with: goals, limiting beliefs, self management, wisdom, Yoda
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
I have an empty Inbox
You may have never seen one of these. It’s an empty inbox. Most people I know have thousands of emails sitting in their inboxes. What a Weight! The stress of it is astounding. Conversely there is both a freedom and…
Tagged with: Basic Self, cycle of completion, GMail, in-box, OmniFocus, productivity, self management
Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
The Jazz Leadership Model
Everything I know about leadership, I learned from Miles Davis. Well that’s a bit of hyperbole, but truer than it might look at first glance. What are some of the qualities of Great Leaders. They: Build and inspire great teams…
Practice Quote of the Day
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. Yogi Berra
Prepare
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin We have had the value and necessity of planning drummed into our heads. Clearly, having a plan, taking time to prepare, getting our goals defined are prerequisites to consistent…
Tagged with: Preparation, Prepare, self management, seven habits, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity
Multi-dimensional task focus
I advocate a multi-dimensional view of the tasks or actions that I track. I have a project focus, a context focus, a people focus with time and people attributes where appropriate. The genesis of this process and practice comes from…
Tagged with: apps, Getting Things Done, iPad, OmniFocus, Outlook, Practice, productivity, self management, technology, Time Design, tools
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Posted in personal productivity
The Lesson of Aikido
I came across this quote in one of my journals today “when you don’t resist, there is no pressure”. One of my previous posts was on Letting Go. Today’s is on Letting Through. Resistance requires so much energy. No wonder…
Tagged with: Practice, productivity, resistance, self management, Yoga
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Position Comfortably Held
Another yoga analogy. It is much more valuable, for me, to do a difficult asana like the Half Moon Pose (Ardha Chandrasana) using a block rather than straining to do without. In fact, I end up with just a fingertip…
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice , practice, practice. Repetition lets us take a skill and move it through the stages of Johari’s window. From blind spot to conscious competence. In fact it allows us to move to a cognitive place of automation to the…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, johari's window, Practice, productivity, self management
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