I started meditating consistently in the summer of 2001. I had just finished…
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“Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don’t think…
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Each email can take up to 15 seconds of your time. An average employee receives close to 88 emails per…
One of the things I’m most amazed about is when I see people working on their computer, tablet, or smartphone and I hear a little sound come up that indicates an interruption. This interruption…
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I’ve loved to write since I was 10 years old.
I’ll ask the obvious question first: Why would you want to do what you don’t want to do? Why even…
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Excellent advice. I liked the point about clothes. I have always liked good clothes. Savile row when I could afford it. I was brought up with manners make the man. This probably cost me a lot of money as I turned down meetings with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as friends informed me they had no manners.
When people find out that I work remotely, the most common question they ask is:
Alexander Graham Bell possessed one of the most fertile and brilliant minds in modern history. Though he is famous for inventing the telephone, he also developed or helped develop a photophone (which wirelessly communicated sound on a…
“Discipline equals freedom”
Jocko Willink
I wake up at 5am almost every day. Whenever this comes up in conversation I am always aked ‘Why do you…
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Italian engineering company QualiCal saw an opportunity for innovation in lime production, and asked —…
Most of you reading this have so many commitments, projects, and problems in your life that it probably feels that there are never enough hours in the day.
If you don’t own your day, your day will own you.
This is the first day of my third Bill-Gates-inspired “Think Week”.
I get up at 4 AM now and my most productive time is the two hours before I leave for work.
Most large companies have a fairly limited range of tools that are officially in used in house. Obviously you can run a company using only Microsoft applications stack, but even running a survey among…
So true. It’s effective for a lot of reasons. You save time by sorting what you will do. You remove resistance to effective action, which can be a killer to focus. It also lets your brain ruminate over it while you sleep.
While this may sound like a hype — as I won the pitch event and was crowned…
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Words are more important than you think. It’s not unusual to hear the casual “I shouldn’t eat that” or…
I’m right there with you. I live in Hawaii, and I do like the view. But I also like the solitude of my own thoughts.
That said, there is something for development the strength of will to live in your thoughts regardless of the surroundings.
November 13, 2017
This may seem obvious for many, but for me, I never could handle the difference between the two. Any and all stress was an immediate existential crisis. What I mean by existential crisis is, you blame the…
How do you flip the switch when you are overwhelmed and anxious with way too many things to do…
Lately, I’ve started posting a lot more to my YouTube channel and streaming more to my Twitch channel. This is reflected in those creative…
5 Ways to Make Tomorrow Better, Today
There is an African Proverb that says, “Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
We all want to be successful in life. Everyone has a field or a goal they are aiming for. I have realized…
Great piece, Kara! Out of curiosity, I recently took a look at the “Battery Usage” on my iPhone and discovered that I was spending WAY more time on Social Media than I thought I was. It was a good reality check as to why I’m not creating the amount of work I have set out to.
You could set up what’s called a Seinfeld calendar.
Yes, it comes from the comedian, Jerry Seinfeld. It’s a trick he used to help his motivation to work on his comedy every day.
When I wanted to start writing, I spent a lot of time searching for information like: the best application to use, the best time to write, if I should write daily, etc. I wanted (and tried) anything…
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with so many things screaming at us for attention, it starts to look like everything is important, or that everything is of equal importance, and that we should pay attention to…
If your day is over-occupied and you feel that the number of hours is inadequate for you…
If you type “Start a business” into Amazon, you’ll see 43,833 book results. That’s a lot of books telling you how to start a business. If you then search “Run a business”, you’ll see 32,619 books. That’s still a lot, but it’s ten thousand less than the results for starting a business…
I recently wrote a condensed version of this on my Linkedin timeline and at the time of writing it had had almost 5,000 views.
There are some very simple ways that you can become more efficient and therefore more productive, without having to work…
This piece was written by one of our amazing team members here at Development & Leadership…
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Unfortunately, while the Web has given a broad platform for spirited public debate and discussion, the information that is generated is always left in perpetuity and is sometimes intentionally deleted to eliminate embarrassment for a party involved. Therefore, it is a…
I feared that people may not care or disagree or maybe even perceive what I am conveying as something different…
Tom, excellent and everyone reading…listen intently. I too have done nothing but research in the past 3yrs.+ except 2016 I focused more on my health because I need to be able to put the energy into my blogging & my business I’m pulling together. You see I’ve been dealing with chronic spinal pain. But I have dreams & visions, so if I’m going to…
I have listened to at least one audible book a month over the last 24 months. Here is my list of books that are good for Design or Human Influence.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.
Talent is Overrated
The Art of Seduction
Pitch Anything
Big Magic
Eat that frog!
So basically ditto last week, I’ve been undisciplined on waking up and getting my cycles…
Monday. First day.
My current average cycling distance per week is 15 km. That is something i want to improve on. I have set up a goal of riding 150 kilometers a week, and doing it EZ. (that means easy, if you’re cool)
I almost dove in and began munching on all of the content here on Medium before I settled down to write…
Yes, you read it well: 14 minutes every day, meaning 1% out of the 1,440 minutes that a day has. 14 minutes in which you plan what to do during that particular day. I have first heard of this concept from Tom Ziglar.
Successful Leaders Don’t Marginalize Margin!
Being Selective in your own battles/obstacles and Have your own decision in your life, don’t…
Writing my first blogpost…
This post is intended to capture my personal learning experience on the slow and often lonesome road to solo web based learning to code. I will document my journey in hopes of one…
One of the challenges that face new entrepreneurs is creating a space that is tranquil and high performing at the same…
I am quite intrigued by this concept. I have long felt that I am slow at doing things, even though thorough. I will read and re-read your article to see what clicks. Thank you :-).
Some days I’m not going to want to write, and when I do it will be ultra short and…
Dear Joshua,
I think you may like this article! Great minds think…
This is a type of deliberate practice. Love it!
An interesting post. What we call as luck and ill- luck are convenient myths created by us to make sense of successes and failures. So there is nothing called luck . It is nothing but preparation meeting opportunity.
Luck is not accidental, it can be cultivated by tweaking some of our mental attributes and cultivating…
Breaking News just in: you procrastinate. But that’s ok. We all do. It’s just a matter of how often you do it and how much it’s holding you back.
Man, these days in particular, with the internet and social media, it’s actually easier than ever to…
So, your Agile coach told you, that once you implement Agile, the team productivity will go through the roof, but you’re struggling to see the result?Maybe it’s taking a little longer than expected to get there, or maybe the environment you’ve created does not fit the new…
Sometimes life is overwhelming: things happen fast, unexpectedly, and you lack time for all the things you have to do. And there are not enough hours in the day and not enough days in a week. It seems that no matter how much you try…
I think this is the key point what eventually decides direction of one’s growth. Every one works when it’s time for work or office. What makes difference is what you do with your spare time.
You see what you just did there?
You shattered the myth.
Productivity in many cases is not about doing more but doing less. Cutting out unproductive activities requires no new skills or knowledge. It’s one of the greatest life hacks.
Darius, thanks for sharing and good luck with the book launch. 🤘
You finally get the day off. A day free from assignments, work, and the alarm clock. You plop onto your bed and…
Hi,
Over the last ten years many companies have moved from offices to open plan, and now from open plan to…
much needed post now when I’m tackling many projects and things in the same time
Nothing is original.
Just have everyone that visits your office esign and NDA and you’ll be all set.