“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 [...]
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Did you mean to do that?




(click to vote)Something to ponder…




(click and rate this post!)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?
Get out of the groove…




(click to vote)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 [...]
What’s Your Problem?




(click and rate this post!)Questions can be very powerful. As a society, we talk more than we listen and we tell more than we ask. Five examples, just from today:
People trying to answer a question before it was fully asked
(and yes, would you believe it, they did answer the wrong question).
People answering the question they wanted to hear, rather [...]
The 3 Stages of Mastery




(click to vote)I’ve written about learning before, but in musing about the ‘mastery’ of a skill or profession, something came back to me. It was something that I heard in the days when I was heavily into music production, desperately trying to get ‘that sound’. A wise old professional at the time said to me “there are [...]
Miss Educating a Nation




(click and rate this post!)This week the UK government announced changes to the school curriculum. A radical shake up to deal with the new knowledge economy? Not quite.
The coverage over at the BBC spins it well, spin being the appropriate term. The launch was at that great institute of learning, Lord’s Cricket ground. Spinning cricket balls and [...]
The Power of a New Perspective




(click and rate this post!)I’ve said it before, but it bears saying again: If you are stuck or struggling, find a new perspective. Take a look at things from a different angle, in a different context, create a new perspective for yourself. It loosens up the mind, creating new thoughts and a different set of emotions. Taking a different [...]
The 9th Habit of Highly Effective People - Look af...
Stephen Covey has already published the The 8th Habit, so I'll have to put this down [+]
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