Posts Tagged ‘action’

How to Bring Your Life into Line with Your Values

The world, it seems, is going downhill fast. Everyone has a take on what’s wrong: liberals over-regulating everything, conservatives decimating the principles of governance, immigrants refusing to blend in, racists bashing immigrants, poor parenting, non-family-friendly policies, corporations bound to short-term profits instead of long-term social responsibilities, activists hampering corporate innovation, and of course the Jews, always the Jews. You name it, someone’s upset by it and the negative effect it… » Continue

May 12 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: action, activism, change, green, living, value | 9 comments»

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that “our obsession with ‘productivity’ is getting in the way of our lives.” Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out of control, and that it’s making us less efficient, not more. I agree with Nick, and I can tell you why the productivity industry is like that: it’s about… » Continue

April 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, gtd, implementation, information, motivation, systems | 9 comments»

Self-Discipline: The Foundation of Productive Living

The productivity industry is awash with tips, tricks, systems, and hacks to help you get more done in less time. Yet many who read books and blogs on this topic for the purpose of getting things done say they have trouble implementing these tools and becoming more productive.

No system for keeping your email under control will help you on its own. No tips and tricks for budgeting will ever… » Continue

March 12 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, discipline, effectiveness, motivation | 18 comments»

Are You Just Getting Warmed Up?

It’s winter time here in the U.S. Parts of the country are covered with snow and ice, and getting going in the morning can be tough.

Part of the morning ritual of a lot of folks during the winter is warming up the car. It may be covered with ice, or just plain cold, and it needs some time to get ready to go. Often this takes patience, especially… » Continue

January 25 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: action, idle, procrastination, Productivity | 1 comment»

Are You Building It Up Or Breaking It Down?

When it comes to thinking about projects - do you spend more time building them up in your mind or breaking them down? When you put up a rig for a show - props, a speaker rack, or a large projection screen for example - thinking ahead about the strike can impact how you put it up. If you’re spending a lot of energy building up a project… » Continue

January 17 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: action, breaking-down, chunking, project, task, thinking | 1 comment»

Pick-Up Sticks and Next Actions

Pick-up sticks. You know the game. You drop 33 colored sticks in a pile and take turns trying to pick them up, one at a time, without disturbing any of the other sticks in the process. If you pick-up a stick successfully, you get another turn.

It sounds like a simple game. Pick up the most sticks, and you win. But there’s a twist, and the twist makes the… » Continue

January 10 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: action, Productivity, todo | 7 comments»

Don’t just ‘Retreat,’ PLAN

For the past three days we at Say Leadership Coaching have been on a retreat. ‘Retreat’ is what most businesses traditionally call it, but I don’t care for the word with its’ backpedaling imagery and cowering connotations. I much prefer our Hawaiian one, Ho‘olālā, meaning to ‘make plans.’ To make plans is to prepare for moving forward in the best possible way.

December is our time for Ho‘olālā for… » Continue

December 7 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: action, Business-Plans, Ho‘olālā, mission, values, vision | 1 comment»

A.V. Squad Rocks!

If you pay much attention to media trends (Especially Oprah Winfry and Bill Gates who is king of the geeks) you’ll notice a growing fervor concerning the state of education in America. They site falling test scores and dropping graduation rates as proof of their claims.

Their solution…

more time in the class room
more classes in general
better textbooks
better teacher training programs
raise performance standards

Unfortunately they are wrong.

In my opinion Jean Piaget (the late)… » Continue

August 11 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: ability, action, children, mental, thinking | 6 comments»

How To Make Resolutions You’ll Keep

Too many resolutions barely last through January. Here’s how to make plnas for 2006 you’ll be certain to keep. » Continue

January 2 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: action, article, career, commitment, failure, happiness, health, learning, Lifehack, motivation, personal, planning, resolution | 2 comments»

Putting Your Future on Hold

People put their own futures on hold all the time. How to they do it? By setting conditions that have to be met before they can move on. » Continue

December 12 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: action, article, career, decision, mission, motivation, procrastination, progress | 2 comments»

“But I Can’t…”

How often each day do you tell yourself, or others, you can’t do something? Is it true? How do you know you can’t? What if you’re limiting yourself without knowing it? What if you’re lying to save face or avoid embarrassment? » Continue

November 28 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: ability, action, article, habit, learning, Management, motivation, performance, success, todo, work, work-life | 11 comments»

How Useful Is the Pareto Principle?

Before you decide the Pareto Principle is true and can be used to guide your actions, I want to ask two important questions. Can you identify which actions make up the useful 20%? And can you do so in advance? And does this useful 20% always contain more or less the same actions? » Continue

October 31 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: action, business, customer, decision, learning, Management, organization, Pareto_Principle, Productivity, work, work-life | 13 comments»

Building a Smarter To-Do List

Merlin Mann at 43Folders has posted a good article on how to improve your to-do list. He made two parts on this article. First, he mentions one of the many problems that coming from to-do list is the lack of action oriented task - the vague phrase and lack of action words on each task list. Merlin talks about how to phrase your task right and clear, so that you… » Continue

September 14 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: action, gtd, procrastination, todo | no comments»