As we develop ourselves and our professional skills there are those that are 100% portable and those that may or may not move with us as we move through our careers. I spent ten years in the training and development…
The Practice of Productivity
Aligning purpose, goals and action through heart centered self management
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3D Competence: Domain Knowledge v Core Competencies
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Positive Thinking – umm?
Positive thinking is like positive drinking. It can be intoxicating but don’t drive under the influence. Neutrality and outcome focus leaves us nimble, agile, flexible and ready to react to the realities we encounter between here and our goal. Negative…
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Mental Ecology – Part 2
Common ecological practices include the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They also include clean and renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind, geothermal and others. So in terms of our internal environment and harnessing our personal energy towards effective…
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Mental Ecology
You are responsible for what you hold in your mind, not for what goes through it. – John-Roger, D.S.S. “I will jump that fence and fight every n***** here,” Riley Cooper, Philadelphia Eagles Both of these seemingly unrelated tidbits entered…
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The win at all costs culture
Performance enhancement. It’s all over the sports pages, it dominated the business news during the credit default crisis, it fills your email spam folder. So we could take the conversation in a lot of directions. Is it a predominantly male…
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Supermoon –
OK this is a stretch topic but here goes. This weekend will be the 2013 Supermoon. The moon will be the closest to us it will be for all of the year. It will appear huge. The image at right…
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Day 2 – Chakra and Productivity
Today we look at second chakra in our dive into energy and productivity. Second chakra is called Swadisthana and it is classically associated with creativity including reproductive. It is also the center of feelings and pleasure. Let’s look at our…
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Pressure Cooker v. Crock Pot
I can’t tell you the physics behind these cooking methods but I find the results similar in many ways. I used to have a crock pot or slow cooker in my college dorm room. We made a lot of soups…
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We’re surfing not sculpting
I read something today that essentially said ‘we can’t control anything, what looks like mastery is really just cooperating with what is’. It looks like control because it is happening in real time. We are alert, aware, supple and responsive.…
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