Lot’s of material out there on Leadership. Not as much on Followership. Here are a couple of thoughts. Yoga instructors, good ones, present a model and encourage you to build your own practice. You can’t really get yoga until you…
The Practice of Productivity
Aligning purpose, goals and action through heart centered self management
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The Art of Followership – What I learned from Yoga and Business
Tagged with: follower, followership, leadership, Practice, responsibility, self management, teams, teamwork, Yoga
Posted in Leadership
Posted in Leadership
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…
“Sometimes the cards ain’t worth a dime if you don’t lay them down”
-Robert Hunter OK, So I’m an old Deadhead. I was at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY last night seeing what’s now left of the band, an incarnation called Furthur. They opened the show with the Grateful Dead anthem Truckin’ and…
Tagged with: goals, inspiration, Practice, Purpose, self management, wisdom, Yoda
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
Be your own disruptive technology
“Remember that you may have to disturb yourself in order to become aware of yourself, in order to establish a reference point for your progress…” John Roger The term disruptive technology comes from Clay Christensen’s book “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. My…
Tagged with: disruptive technology, dreams, focus, goals, Practice, Preparation, productivity, review
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
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…
The Productivity Paradox
Practice does not make perfect. Perfect isn’t even a goal. Practice makes ease. This is true in yoga practice, where we are getting more supple, flexible and aligned in intention and action. This is true in work were we are…
Tagged with: Ease, Getting Things Done, Practice, productivity, Purpose, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity
“For the things…
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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…
Tagged with: asana, Being, guitar, health, jazz, learning, play, Practice, Preparation, productivity, repetition, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity
Mind Maps for Meeting Notes
Mind Maps are a non-linear method of capturing thoughts. They work like our minds work, in a web of interconnected thoughts, ideas, concepts. Here’s a Wiki on them if the process is new to you. They are great way to…
Tagged with: apps, cloud, iPad, mind map, MindJet, Outlook, Practice, productivity, self management, software, technology, tools
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Posted in personal productivity
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.…
Tagged with: flexibility, mastery, planning, Practice, productivity, surfing
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
The Practice of Productivity 