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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Four Adaptations for Ubiquitous Capturing of Your Ideas
Remember you mind is a pattern matching machine. There is no switch to turn it off. In fact, the further out of your routine you get the more active can become. In order to take full advantage of it, you [...]
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Two Lessons to Survive Your Work and Get Things Done
Recently reading “The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life”
taught me a lot about the skills we use everyday that when adjusted can increase our chances for survival. Two items that were cited as significantly increasing [...]
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Todays Emergencies, Were Yesterdays Ignored Requests
Stop lighting your own house on fire. Every time you find yourself dealing with a fire (emergency or crisis) in your work, remember it was lit with your own match. In fact, while you are fighting that blaze, I bet [...]
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Fighting For the Arizona We Want
The creative class is underrepresented in Metro Phoenix. Our elected leaders continue to make choices that are detrimental to our future and we refuse to get organized to stop them. It is time that we choose our battlefield and take [...]
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Political Bites: Top Policy Issues
What is the most urgent policy matter to address locally, statewide or nationally, and why?
Locally we need to look at modifying our tax base to reduce dependence on sales tax. As a state we need to balance our budget and [...]
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Want a Different Outcome? Change Your Focus.
Feeling stuck in a rut? Wishing your company was more successful? Thinking your start-up should have a million users already? Does it seem like you can’t get where you want to be?
Our brains are pattern matching machines. Have you ever [...]
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Being Organized Increases Creative Potential
Your ideas need air to breathe. If your mind is consumed worrying about all the things you have to do; how can you expect it to have cycles to be innovative? In order to be creative you need to have [...]
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Is Your Moleskin Keeping You From Getting Things Done?
The problem with Moleskins is that they are good collectors, but bad for processing. Ever seen an episode of Hoarders? That is what Moleskins tend to make us. When we use them to take notes in meetings or collect thoughts [...]
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Passion Fuels Greatness. Apathy Fuels Mediocrity.
Borrowed from Sir Ken Robinson‘s 2010 TED talk. There are two types of people in the world.
Those that simply endure what they do. Can’t wait for the weekend.
Those that love what they do. Their work is who they are.
To do [...]
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Getting Things Done: Area of Focus vs Project
I had been struggling to define when something should be an Area of Focus versus when it should be a Project in my Getting Things Done (GTD) system. If a completion date can be applied to it, even one a [...]
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