Tag: Getting Things Done
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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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The Urgent and The Important
In a 1954 speech to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, former U.S. President Eisenhower said: “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” Robert Glazer shared this simple but powerful life management tool on his blog today…
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Making Changes that Stick, Building Good Habits [Video]
Here’s a video I shared recently on my YouTube channel. What is the underlying structure of your life? Â What habits are made easy because of the layout of your home, your office, the friends you hang out with? Â How might you change the structure of your life in order to make certain positive habits more…
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Become Strategically Unavailable
First, you may ask, what is “Strategic Unavailability” anyway? What is Strategic Unavailability? If you say “yes” to every request for your time, money or attention you will have none for the areas that are your own personal priority. Â If you want to achieve success, you must retain most of your resources and dedicate them…
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Your Scarcest Resource
I know plenty of financial advisors who would love to spend a few hours reviewing my investments, cash position, investment goals and helping me make a realistic plan. I know how much I spent on food, travel, housing, school in the last month, year and if I did the sums I could calculate a rough…
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My Productivity Posts at the Lifehack blog
I have been writing this month for the Lifehack blog.  They have published 4 of my blog posts so far.  It’s challenging and helpful to get pushed to improve my ability to explain my ideas, work with editors and pitch story ideas 😉 6 Item Checklist for Running Impressive Meetings Our first board meeting was chaos.…