I was having dinner with friends and the conversation veered in many directions. Not sure how we got on the topic but I was relating following story. Between my career in broadcasting and my current career, there was a period…
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Pigeon-proof Productivity
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Joy Restoration
I think my new mission is Joy Restoration. We’ve all had Joy. I would even posit that it is our original state. We may have had it removed through the careful application of social ‘normalization’, religious indoctrination and enforced maturation.…
Tagged with: Ease, focus, goals, health, inspiration, Joy, limiting beliefs, mental ecology, Practice, productivity, Purpose, self management, wellness
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Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
Measurement is Management
This topic goes back to my very first blog entry on Productive Practice and it is sill one of the most important lessons I continue to work with and practice. Measurement is management. The first step to change is measuring. …
Tagged with: action, feedback, goals, health, inspiration, measurement, productivity, self management
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Integrity – Internal Grit
Is it cheating if everyone is doing it? Is fairness just a level playing field? Are the win and profit at all costs mentality exemplified by the BioGenesis 13 and Johnny Football our new standard? In the past few weeks…
Tagged with: alignment, health, integrity, mental ecology, Purpose, self management, wellness, wisdom, zero sum
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Wellness
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…
Tagged with: action, flexibility, health, leadership, learning, limiting beliefs, mental ecology, mental filters, politics, productivity, racisim, resistance, self management, society, teamwork, wellness, win/win
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Treating the symptoms
I have had a variety of intestinal ailments for more than thirty years. In the last two weeks, I have had some nasty symptoms. My response has largely been in the area of treating just the symptoms and not really…
Tagged with: alignment, health, intestinal ailments, learning, long term solution, microscopic change, Practice, resistance, self management, wellness
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Flowing Energy = Ease
Which of these two people looks more relaxed and at ease? Which looks like they are exerting more energy? We know from the physical law of inertia that an object in motion stays in motion. We know from the Wizard…
Tagged with: Ease, flowing, health, isometrics, Joy, law of inertia, mental-health, natural flow, Practice, productivity, wellness, Yoga
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I have a lot of Practice
I am about to sit down to practice the guitar. I take lessons once a week and I practice daily. I run scales, play songs from sheet music and I improvise solos over backing tracks that my teacher provided on CD or…
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