I was on my yoga mat, in class, recently and had the following image; the mat is like a little runway. The practice we engage in, any practice, is both a jumping off spot and a place we land. It…
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We need a runway for take-off and landing
Tagged with: alignment, approach, Ease, goals, inspiration, Practice, Preparation, productivity, runway, self management, Yoga, yoga mat
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Can’t See the Forest or the Trees
My basic method has to do with getting de-cluttered from the inside out, clearing out the mental overload that leads to stress and reduces productivity and going all the way through the individuals work and home environment. I help folks…
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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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Google Journal and 100DS
I found the above and was intrigued. Run yourself through the slide show. I am not sure I agree with the methodology, but I am going to challenge myself to try it out and report on my experience here on…
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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…
Tagged with: alignment, dovetailed outcomes, flexibility, goals, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management
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Make it your own.
My wife and I are doing a renovation project on our kitchen. So many lessons of this home project are applicable to my work projects. Having a vision of the outcome is critical, of course. Here is another. To make…
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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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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…
Tagged with: alignment, focus, goals, inspiration, limiting beliefs, microscopic change, NLP, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, reprogramming, richard bandler, self doubt, self management, vision, wh murray
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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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Blazing new Frontiers
I was thinking this morning about how I admire people who light out on their own and build something new. That doesn’t have to be inventing the geodesic dome (but I did watch a YouTube video on Buckminster Fuller). It could be…
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