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
Tagged with: Ease, failure, feedback, health, learning, mental ecology, productivity, resistance, self management
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3D Competence: Domain Knowledge v Core Competencies
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…
Tagged with: flexibility, focus, leadership, learning, Practice, productivity, self management
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Mental Ecology: More Resources
Searching around the web on the topic of Mental Ecology I found a couple of useful links. One to a David Allen Article of Huffpost. It is a coincidence and not a coincidence that I am using a term from…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, de-clutter, focus, Getting Things Done, knowledge work, learning, mental ecology, Practice, productivity, Purpose, self management, tools, wellness, working memory
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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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Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Reframing. A technique for overcoming limiting beliefs
One of the biggest obstacles to accomplishing goals we set for ourselves is overcoming the limiting beliefs we hold. Here’s the math. It’s all about vectors and force. We are trying to get from point A to point B. We…
Tagged with: alignment, goals, learning, limiting beliefs, Practice, productivity, reframing, resistance, sales, self management, vectors, vision
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Wellness
Is your Work a Well Fare?
Your work is to find out what your work should be and not to neglect it for another’s. Clearly discover your work and attend to it with all your heart. (Dhammapada, v. 166) I found this Buddha quote in a…
Tagged with: alignment, Buddha, inspiration, integrity, learning, Purpose, welfare, wellness, wisdom, work, work and welfare
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Quotes
We are not our limited self image. We are our picture of success!
I mentioned previously that I have a paperweight on my desk that says ‘what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?’ I have also drawn the conclusion that without failure we make no progress nor gain learning and experience. And…
Tagged with: failure, focus, goals, inspiration, learning, Purpose, self management, vision
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Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
If at first you don’t succeed….you fail
So what! No platitudes. Failure feels bad. Success feels good. But stasis feels numb, a false comfort. No question which feeling I want more of. But which do I want less of? Comfortably numb is not a good place to…
Practice is learning
THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE PERSONAL HISTORY EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE A life in piano lessons. BY JEREMY DENK This wonderful article brought out a few important points to me. For those of us who are teachers, coaches, mentors etc.; the…
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