Been on quite a journey over the past few years – last year for a solid ten months – I took a very intense course that had homework and practicum’s each week. This completed in December, and I’m very happy to have gone through the experience. I have not really elaborated much on the […]
Read More 10 months, 2 days, and a recovering busyholic.Day 3 of the 12 Days of Gifts series is focused on enabling you to give something that is a bit of an enigma. Time. So many times we hear ourselves and others talk about the ‘If only I hads…’ and ‘I don’t have enough of it…’ when referring to time. I have discussed […]
Read More 12 Days of Gifts – Giving TimeOver the past few years, I have taken a number of third party assessments online, and in some cases – been examined/evaluated in person too. I am keeping a running tally of the various assessments I have opted into that really do span multiple Dimensions of Life or DOLs. Today, I’m going to […]
Read More Conation, Kolbe Indexes, and A Useful Test You Have Never Heard Of…How many of you actually journal your planned day as part of a nightly routine? Or as part of a pre-morning, morning routine? I have outlined some big time benefits of multi calendaring, and benefits of directing your time in advance with a planful approach to your time – regardless of the day of […]
Read More 5MF – An Obviously Simple Truth About Your Calendar That You Have Ignored…October 1, 2018. Where did this year go? Over the past two weeks, I have been unusually focused on the near term, and now we are into the final quarter of the year. This is the most important quarter of the year for a variety of reasons. The most important reason being – […]
Read More How many days are in 12 weeks?Just think positive. Expose yourself to more positive thinking. Surround yourself with positive people Listen to positive music. These techniques are probably all things you have heard from late night hucksters and book promoters over the years. Positive thinking and positive reinforcement does have its place, and in targeted scenarios – […]
Read More 5MF (5 Minute Friday) – Positive Thinking is Sugar Water…A Resiliency Juicing Technique…So 2017 was all about setting directions. Setting goals. Completing things in support of a broader plan – all aimed at securing a firmer vision for myself that was years down the line. I knocked out a ton of things for myself on a variety of fronts that I had set for […]
Read More Clearing for space…No Goals and Clarity…I have mentioned in the past that I have retained a few coaches over the years, and very recently retained another coach that is helping me in two main areas of my life at the moment – with many of the strategies being dualistic. The strategies that have been shared sometimes spill over into […]
Read More 10 Minute Micro Window Technique – Applied to Quarterly Goal Planning…So this article starts back in 1997 or thereabouts. There was a program called PowerMarks that had this really innovative approach to managing your bookmarks for your various websites. It was a Windows-based plugin that synchronized your bookmarks to a server that they managed. Don’t call it ‘the cloud’ … This gem of software solved […]
Read More Gear – Raindrop.io For Bookmarks ManagementSo from time to time, I’ll be posting about the gear, techniques/hacks, and my personal workflows that envelop the gear that i use in the spirit of giving you back some time and increasing your useful time in pursuit of your priorities. I wasn’t born yesterday, and I’d like to think I’m a mix […]
Read More Workflow & Gear – A Journey to EvernoteBack when I used to work at Subway in high school, I had a friend that was working there as a second job with a very interesting guiding principle – he promised himself that he would learn one new skill per year and take at least one trip to a new location per year. I […]
Read More One Trip Per Year or Quarterly Retreats?I’m admittedly a gadget guy from back in the day. My approach to the gadgets in my life has increasingly become one of reducing friction, increasing my productivity, and enabling stronger alignment to those areas of my life that are most important. At one point – my strategy with gadgets was centered in two […]
Read More The Apple Watch – Extravagant Bullshit?