In this clip Yoda teaches the greatest lesson. Don’t try! Do! Line up your action with your intention and there is no trying (which means no struggle, no trial as in testing or inquisition). If you watch the rest of…
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There is no Try
Tagged with: goals, limiting beliefs, self management, wisdom, Yoda
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
I have an empty Inbox
You may have never seen one of these. It’s an empty inbox. Most people I know have thousands of emails sitting in their inboxes. What a Weight! The stress of it is astounding. Conversely there is both a freedom and…
Tagged with: Basic Self, cycle of completion, GMail, in-box, OmniFocus, productivity, self management
Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Prepare
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” ― Benjamin Franklin We have had the value and necessity of planning drummed into our heads. Clearly, having a plan, taking time to prepare, getting our goals defined are prerequisites to consistent…
Tagged with: Preparation, Prepare, self management, seven habits, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity
Multi-dimensional task focus
I advocate a multi-dimensional view of the tasks or actions that I track. I have a project focus, a context focus, a people focus with time and people attributes where appropriate. The genesis of this process and practice comes from…
Tagged with: apps, Getting Things Done, iPad, OmniFocus, Outlook, Practice, productivity, self management, technology, Time Design, tools
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Posted in personal productivity
The Lesson of Aikido
I came across this quote in one of my journals today “when you don’t resist, there is no pressure”. One of my previous posts was on Letting Go. Today’s is on Letting Through. Resistance requires so much energy. No wonder…
Tagged with: Practice, productivity, resistance, self management, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
Practice , practice, practice. Repetition lets us take a skill and move it through the stages of Johari’s window. From blind spot to conscious competence. In fact it allows us to move to a cognitive place of automation to the…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, johari's window, Practice, productivity, self management
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Posted in personal productivity
Cloud Atlas
About nine months ago I was let go from my job in the financial services industry. This matched my goal to get my work aligned with my purpose and I viewed it as a positive step. I was lucky that…
Tagged with: back ups, cloud, productivity, self management, technology, tools
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Posted in personal productivity
Confessions of a Loser
I have lost more than eighty pounds four or five times in last twenty-five years. Reminds me of the Mark Twain quote “quitting smoking is easy, I’ve done it a thousands times”. Let me share my keys to taking it…
Tagged with: diet, goals, microscopic change, self management, weight loss, wellness
Posted in Wellness
Posted in Wellness
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