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Productivity Podcast

Here is a link to an archived version of the conversation I had last Friday with Sam Liebowitz of the Conscious Consultant Hour radio show. It hits on some of the topics I wrote about last week, including clearing our

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Talismans

Do you have lots of clutter around your office or work area? What is it? Piles of papers? Envelopes and folders? Books? Boxes? I can see two easy explanations for your clutter. 1. You don’t have enough filling, storage and

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Please join me online today.

I will be a guest on the radio show The Conscious Consultant Hour today, June 28th at 11:00 AM EDT.  Host Sam Liebowitz and I will be talking about the power of productivity skills to reduce stress and realign our

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Clearing your mental RAM

One of my key take-aways from the David Allen Getting Things Done materials (which are the main source my foundational understanding of productivity and self-management) is that it is a waste of Psychic RAM when I have the same thoughts

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Cognitive RAM v ROM

Let’s use a computing analogy to flesh out the ideas, from Cognitive Science, about how we work on things mentally and how we use three interrelated tools, Working Memory, Short Term Memory and Long Term Memory to get things done.

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Deeper connections

Most of what we think of these days as making connections seems to be in the form of Social Media.  I am in that school as well, using social media such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to establish my brand

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Please join me

I will be a guest on the radio show The Conscious Consultant Hour next Friday, June 28th at 11:00 AM EDT. here is a link.  http://www.talkingalternative.com/friday-shows/the-conscious-consultant-hour. We will be talking about the power of productivity skills to reduce stress and

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You’re either on the bus or off the bus

Kind of like the Yoda quote ‘do or do not there is no try’ or like ‘you can’t be a little pregnant’. That doesn’t mean we are stuck where we are and can never change.  Grace Slick sings in the

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Using Your Brain for a Change

Credit for today’s post title goes to a great book of the same title by NLP pioneer Richard Bandler.  Here’s a link to Amazon.  I get nothing for the referral.  Check it out because it’s good. So we left off

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Nobody Gets a Lifetime Rehearsal

Nod to the Indigo Girls for today’s post headline. I was looking at the definition of Practice today: Practice – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. One of the synonyms of the noun form is “dry run”.  So

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