Start. Go wide, be creative, let your imagination run wild!Finish. Go narrow, put your head down, cut the useless mercilessly out.
Both are fundamental modes of work.
Freedom is high on any person’s list of priorities in life, don’t you think?
But how free are we?
We let others constrain what we can do with their expectations and judgment.“Normal people don’t do this…”…
Donald Miller of StoryBrand said that when he gets stuck, he writes down 25 what if … statements. And then, suddenly, he begins to see ways forward.
The conscious mind forgets most of yesterday, but the unconscious doesn’t. How could you use it to be more creative?
Every article you read, every conversation you have, every video you watch, they remain in the mind longer than you might…
Every day, you learn something new. You meet new people, you learn new fact, you understand new concepts. But how much remains the next day?
When we wake up, we are refreshed (hopefully). That comes with having a clean slate…
Out of sight, out of mind works unfortunately well in the digital world. How can we keep the important things in sight then?
It’s easy to forget that useful file you created or that email you wanted to read (speaking from experience here). But what if they matter…
You hear it often, hard work, hard work, work hard… But what to work on hard exactly?
Sometimes it’s not easy to pin down what the tasks we need to get done are. The mentality of working hard can then get in the way. If we focus on WORKING HARD!! then we can…
Have you ever:
This is the state of the world today. Wanna do more of something? Is there an app for it? Which one is the best?
That’s backwards. Or, actually too much forwards. Let me explain.
When I sit down in front of a computer, I’m sometimes not sure what I’m going to do. This lack of clarity is bad for my productivity. I might write, but I might also check Facebook, clean my inbox, visit any of the gazillions of websites on the web or watch…