Category: Productivity
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Exceptional Results
“Sometimes all you need for exceptional results is average effort repeated for an above-average amount of time.” James Clear Consistency beats brilliance. The 20 mile march. Daily progress. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step… and you’ll reach it within a year if you go for 3 miles a day. I’ve…
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The Courage to be Rubbish
I get requests for advice from people starting youtube channels. My first piece of advice is “make bad videos”. When you are starting out, don’t aim for good… aim for done. If you make 1 “bad” video a week for 52 weeks… you will make many bad videos, but you will accidentally create a few…
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Improving your Strengths or Improving your Weaknesses
You cannot win the marathon by sprinting. The winner of the 100m in the Olympics might also win the 200m, but will never be competitive in the 10K… or marathon …or rowing, or judo… Gold medal athletes focus on their strengths and work to amplify their strengths. Usain Bolt doesn’t spend training time trying to…
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What Makes Some People More Productive Than Others
One of my most read & shared posts ever is 11 Differences between Busy People and Productive People. Productivity is clearly a theme which resonates with you, my favorite reader. Robert Pozen and Kevin Downey write about 3 keys to productivity over at Harvard Business Review. They share a summary of their work on personal…
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Learning Patience – Becoming Mindful of My Daily Activities
I share a tool that I have used to become mindful of my daily activities. This video is from the IESE EMBA Intensive week and I share an exercise that I have been doing for the last few months – that has shown me that “feeling in a rush” is one of the big detractors…
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The 11 Differences Between Busy and Productive People
One of my posts over at LinkedIn “11 Differences between Busy People and Productive People” was turned into a cool infographic by an author at Inc Magazines blog. Given that it has horses and unicorns on it, I wanted to share it here. Thanks Inc 😉 The Differences Between Busy vs. Productive People https://t.co/U2OhPq8O64 —…
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The World’s Most Productive People
The 3 most Productive per Hour countries are: Luxembourg Switzerland Norway The graph below gives one particular view of the level of productivity per hour for the world’s countries. Mexico works lots of hours with little output, whilst Luxembourg work little hours with very high productivity. The horizontal axis represents annual hours worked and the…
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I Can’t Focus. How to Learn to Focus.
First understand the do-or-die importance of focus. “If you don’t learn to focus, you will have a shallow and unrewarding life without any meaningful achievements.” Derek Sivers That is worth repeating. “A shallow and unrewarding life.” That’s bad. You Need to Learn to Focus So make it a priority. Yes it’s hard. The world is…
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How the US President Plans his Days
Do you plan your days, or do your days run as a reaction to what pops up? Â In Washington DC, one of our EO leaders at the EO Leadership Academy was Christoph Magnussen – here in this he shares a tip we learnt about how to take control of your day. This is a lesson…