Top 10 Productivity Tips
On yesterday’s post Ian Mcleary shared his 10 top productivity tips. Very useful: 1. Sort out my to-do list every morning 2. Start at 7 every morning. 3. Review my 99 day goals every week 4. Review my stats every week 5. Keep my CRM system up to date 6. Bring my laptop to meetings [...]
And then, and then, and then
Whenever I talk with too much certainty about what I’ll do then, and then, and then, I know that I’ve become arrogant and lazy. One of the gems from the Like Minds Summit back in February was short term execution with a long term goal. In other words, it was “there’s where we want to [...]
I’m Back!
If you can’t see the above video, click here, or watch direct on YouTube. Hello friends — I am back from Spain (36°C) to the glorious English summer of clouds and rain. Certainly I am very, very rested and relaxed. I did no work except on the first two days, and for the majority of [...]
Producing Proof
My good friend Munya Hoto once told me that we live to produce proof. I like that. It means that we live to produce physical proof of what we believe. When I started out as a consultant two years ago, I had some proof, but it wasn’t clearly documented. The first thing to do is [...]
My Wife
It’s my wife’s birthday today. Happy Birthday my sweetheart – hope you’re enjoying the holiday! (She gets my blog in her email (BTW you can wish her a happy birthday on her Facebook profile.) The reason why I bring it up is because she is a woman who supports me unfailingly – the kind of [...]
Video: Start With Why
If you can’t see the above video, click here, or watch it directly on YouTube. I caught this video earlier this year and all I can say is that it has changed how I run projects and decide what to do. It’s by Simon Sinek on the subject of “Start With Why: How Great Leaders [...]
Fail Forward
I’m not so much a fan of Seth Godin’s blog as I am of his books (I think the focus in his books is better than the blog which often I find too ethereal). However, I found this post on failure from him to be very good. Seth writes on the levels of failure that [...]
Are You Living A Life Of Purpose?
Ok, so perhaps this is deep and delving a bit too much into people’s salads, but the other night I was at a dinner party and when asking about their interests and passions, the person said to me that they weren’t really doing the things they felt were a fulfilment of their life and found [...]
Together
It’s a concern of mine that despite all our social media, people still don’t do things together. Words like community, team, collaboration, relational, participatory, social – they are all over Twitter, but then when you share these links or comment on these posts, do you get a reply? When you ask people not what they [...]
Build Not Buy
As MasterCard have told us, there are some things money can’t buy: You can buy a house, but you make a home You can buy a car, but you learn to drive You can pay for a good wedding, but that doesn’t make you a good husband You can buy a ball, but it doesn’t [...]
