We get more done when our alignment extends from purpose all the way through action. We get clearly in touch with our sense of our purpose. We develop a vision in line with our purpose. We set goals that will…
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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
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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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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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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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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
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
We Fail to Learn
One of the fastest ways to learn is to fail. Information, instruction and feedback in the context of an experience of failure is more useful than abstractly presented curriculum in no particular context other that the learning environment itself (classroom).…
Tagged with: failure, feedback, learning, Practice, productivity, support, Yoda, Yoga
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Chakras and Productivity
In Yoga and other practices there is a knowledge of energy systems called Chakras. I think of them as a system of reservoirs and locks that work much as a system of canals like the Panama or Suez canals. There is not…
Passin Thru
Yesterday afternoon I was listening to the radio station of Columbia University here in NYC. They were playing three hours of music by a favorite sax player of mine named Oliver Lake. One of the tunes was called Passin’ Thru.…
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