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 when the decision becomes an action. Decisions don’t really impact the world until they are actions. Faith without works is dead - why? Because you don’t [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It is that time of year, you know the one, where things come to an end and new things begin. It is a great time to reflect on longer term goals and longer term “what needs doing” items and actions. An interesting twist in this is focusing on what things you need to stop doing. [...]

I’m a great believer in systems and analysis. In fact I think the whole world is one big interconnected system… But that’s a story for another day. One of the systems that is the biggest challenge to working out what needs doing and doing it is the email inbox. In most companies the email inbox [...]