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(click to vote)Do something different, for a change!




(click and rate this post!)I’m reflecting back on this week and on this year, being another year older. What have I learnt?
My big take away for the moment is this: A change of context is the quickest way to change your thinking. Do you remember me loosing my car recently (shaken, not stirred)? I had a different replacement vehicle [...]
Chasing Mice and Eating Elephants




(click to vote)Following on from the discussion about planned abandonment, there was an interesting post over on Ron Martoia’s velocityculture blog, where he talked about hunting elephants rather than mice, with the follow on comment by Ron:
“…focused on and how do you align time, energy, creativity and any other resource to the accomplishing of that mission. [...]
Pause for Thought - The Three Second Rule




(click and rate this post!)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 [...]
A good tool is hard to find!




(click and rate this post!)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 [...]
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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