I can’t remember where I heard it, it was a long time ago, but someone talked to me about WINning - WIN - What’s Important right Now. Picking the most important thing to do right now, and focusing on it, 100%.
It is a little like Covey’s First Things First habit. The challenge, of course, is [...]

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Peter F. Drucker
This is key to avoiding the ‘activity’ or the ‘productivity’ trap. I have met - in real life and virtually - many people who are focussed on getting more and more things done. They read books to [...]

The simple things are often the most powerful, take focus for example.
Pause and think about this for a few minutes:
If you could choose just one change you could make in your life,
what would it be?
What would the result of that change be?
What is stopping you making that change?

It is the little things that are often the most provoking. Seth posted on his blog:
Creativity and the unexpected
Just because it’s on the menu, doesn’t mean you have to order it.
One sentence that triggers hundreds of thoughts. In the food context it jars at little, but take the concept to the work place and [...]