productivity's archives
Are you OWP? Stop it!
(Click and rate it!) 
Loading ...Are you OWP? Operating Without a Plan. Time and time again I find people, myself included, doing this on a daily basis. It is very easy to end up diving into the action and activity, looseing sight of the desired outcome. Having a plan is an easy way to ensure that you know what the [...]
Make More Mistakes – More Quickly
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...Every so often someone says something that makes me go “Hmmm…” I mull it over, I digest it, I internally debate it, I ask others about it; Eventually, it changes my behaviour. This time it was part of a conversation about making decisions in business, and the key phrase, itself passed on from someone else, [...]
Are we on the edge of worrying ourselves to death?
(click and rate it) Loading ...Worry seems to be an everyday part of life in the western world. When I was in Africa I was stunned by the happiness and the lack of worry that I saw in people. Many would seem to be on the very edge of survival, by a western definition, and yet they were more alive [...]
ThinkingRock is 2 good!
(click and rate it) Loading ...I’m absolutely buzzing today; I’ve started using ThinkingRock Version 2 on my mac. Having an effective tool to track what needs doing is critical to living successfully; ThinkingRock is that tool for me – see: a good tool is hard to find and get laddered with ThinkingRock. For those new to ThinkingRock, you might want [...]
You Live, You Learn – Learn to Learn, Learn to Live
(click and rate it) Loading ...A mad, but good week so far. I’ve done some new things this week and have been helping some other people learn too. That started me thinking about the learning process and the stages on the way to becoming competent at something, learning about learning…
Benjamin’s Back!
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...An apt title for Easter. So, I’m back from my first off-line-time of the year to find one of my posts picked up on Lifehack.org! A few thousand extra hits on the blog, links, comments and messages from as far afield as Japan and India. A very pleasant Easter present, thank you guys! I think [...]
Bang Goes March and The First Law of Blogging
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...How about this for the first law of blogging? “The number of blog posts is inversely proportional to the number of things going off in the blogger’s life”. I am hoping for some semblance of order to start to return by the end of this week, so that I can finish off a couple of [...]
