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 [...]
Robin’s Thoughts on Maintenance
In our discussion recently on “it’s easier to obtain than maintain“, we looked at how we deal with the everyday ‘boring’ work, considering most of us are type A, driven, motivation fuelled people. One comment really stuck at as having a lot of gold in, from my dear friend Robin Dickinson. (It’s not the first [...]
If You Fail To Prepare, You Prepare To Fail
Since getting back from our time away over August, I haven’t stopped. I wrote a blog post about being relaxed, refreshed and re-envisioned when I got back from the holiday, but boy does it seem like a distant memory! The good thing is that I delivered on what I said I’d would. I have, however, [...]
Perspective
When spinning so many plates as a husband, business man, a pastor (not the pastor, BTW), and handling all the curve balls of life, you sometimes come crashing down to the ground. I’m sure you’ve been there too – am I right? When you’re living on the ground, you can’t see the wood for the [...]
Keeping Your Head When Everyone Else Is…
This week is busy. We have two new interns in the office at Aaron+Gould, and Women In Touch (my client and church initiative) big yearly conference this week. It’s weeks like this, where you have to manage multiple things at a high stress and time pressure, that easily break your daily routine and to-do system. Normally [...]
How GTD Rescued Me
Jesus saved my soul. GTD saved my future. Really, it did. When started working at church at 19 I had no office experience. And although in my melancholic, creative nature there is an obsessive and meticulous organiser within me, unfortunately I have historically had a nasty habit of never implementing a system because I could [...]
