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Watch out for the frogs!
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Loading ...Something I keep stumbling across is the idea of eating a frog for breakfast! It really isn’t as bad as it sounds. At home we even have a poster above the breakfast table that is a big picture of a frog with the caption “What’s your frog today?”. Eating frogs is all over the blogosphere: [...]
Shaken, not stirred! First things first…
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...Well, it is obviously one of those months! I was involved in a fairly serious crash this week. Two days later, I revisited the scene of the accident and realised that I came within 20 feet of death, or at least certain major injuries. As it happens I did get away with no major injuries, [...]
Letting Go
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...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 [...]
Pause for Thought – The Three Second Rule
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...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. [...]
A good tool is hard to find!
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...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 and rate it) Loading ...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 it!) Loading ...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 [...]
