Date registered: October 17, 2012
Kinds of Work Time I have been having a dialogue with Dorian Taylor. He suggested that manager time – where you take meetings by the hour – can eat into maker time for those who need long sessions of focus time. It has really got me thinking about the different kinds of activities and the …
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You make the plan for productivity with the best intentions. You get started, bursting with enthusiasm. And all too soon you are behind schedule. Sound familiar? I have been through this cycle countless times. So I found ways around it. One thing I learned quickly was that forcing myself didn’t work. Now I know why. …
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Do you work alone a lot? Do you work better when there is a social connection to someone else in the mix of what you do? Do you have that common bad habit of procrastinating? I might have a solution that is super simple and fun for you. It is fun for me! But you …
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Somehow I think I may have always had an intuitive understanding that my willpower – my ability to self-discipline was limited. I used to think that might just be me. And when ADD rolled around, I attributed, perhaps wrongly, my lack of significant self-discipline to having hyper-focus ADD. That means that I can focus, as if …
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Ever notice that you slump in your productivity right after a big project completes? You should be elated, right? Or building on the success, but your system seems to crash instead? Ever finish a big win and feel pretty depressed shortly thereafter? But you didn’t want to tell anyone when they were busy congratulating you?* …
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I am working on some new offerings for 2013. The series will be called Play Your Way to (followed by whatever that month is helping you to achieve). The series will include things like Play Your Way to a Collaborative Writing Project, or Play Your Way to New Habits, or Play Your Way to Crowdfunding. …
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Are you happy? Am I? Do I want to be? What does that even mean? So much is being said and done around happiness these days. I want to share with you a few talks which really helped me clarify why the idea of happiness and the pursuit of it make me anxious. and decide …
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Behavioral Economic research reveals that time pressure and monetary incentives both trigger analytical thinking instead of creative flowing. There is often a tremendous amount of time gathering all the information relevant to a creation. Then the ideas seem to emerge fully formed and plop into the conscious mind ready for action. That can’t be scheduled. …
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By offering support wherever I can be useful, I developed abundant social capital. I was able to leverage it to put the agency together, capitalizing on years of developing relationships. I try to be mindful about the decay of this type of capital and refresh regularly. How are you being prudent with your resources? Are …
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When do you put all or more of your “eggs” in a single basket? In the dance between bold moves adequately resourced or careful risk management, when do you choose boldness? In the fight against measles, the Red Cross teamed up with the CDC and several other organizations to launch the Measles Initiative. Staff was …
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