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I wrote on Christmas eve about “One Ends Another One Begins” - about somethings ending so that you can start others. That is the decision point. The crunch comes [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Letting Go




(click and rate this post!)Pause for Thought - The Three Second Rule




(click and rate this post!)I’ve been quiet for a few days, as I have had an enforced pause. An international flight ran into problems, and I ended up with 8 hours of the night stranded in an empty airport, away from connectivity and most of my belongings.
Pauses are powerful things. Time to reflect. To think. Time to realise. To [...]
A good tool is hard to find!




(click and rate this post!)I am a great fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology. Even though I don’t really strictly use it myself I highly recommend it. One of the challenges of being a creative thinker (or a classic procrastinator!) is that you can end up with a huge to do list that becomes very hard to [...]
e-mailing your way to oblivion




(click to vote)Is it just me, or are e-mail and productivity at work just two things that don’t belong in the same sentence together? I find it amazing that companies invest so much money in deploying e-mail systems and yet spend nothing on training people to communicate effectively with them. Perhaps you work in a company that [...]
Blowing the whistle on yourself!




(click and rate this post!)I love my wife, she is a genius. I should provide some explanation!
We have four children, each wonderful in their own way and each bringing their own little learning opportunities. However, most recently, our middle son’s behaviour has been closer to “pushing the boundaries” than our household norm. I believe that is how the experts [...]
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Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. He blogs on productivity, communication and technology - Quite simply: WOWNDADI - Work out what needs doing and do it.
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