Posts Tagged ‘breakthrough’

10 MORE ways to create a breakthrough in your life.

Here—again in no particular order—are 10 more ways to transform your working life. Maybe you should try them.

Slow down. Give yourself time and space. Never be in more of a hurry than you have to be. Allow time for thinking, musing, just noodling around in your head with no apparent purpose. Give space in your thinking for ideas you haven’t had yet; allow openings for sniffing out the ideas of

March 26 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: breakthrough, effectiveness, work | 43 comments»

How to Break Out of Your Comfort Zone

Over time, we all gather a set of constricting habits around us—ones that trap us in a zone of supposed comfort, well below what our potential would allow us to attain. Pretty soon, such habits slip below the level of our consciousness, but they still determine what we think that we can and cannot do—and what we cannot even bring ourselves to try. As long as you let these habits… » Continue

January 15 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, breakthrough, career, comfort, habit | 23 comments»

Change Here

After the election last week in the United States, change is a hot topic, but it isn’t political change that I have been thinking about recently. It’s how organizations and their leaders cope—or, more often, fail to cope too well—with the need for changes in business practices to promote growth and foster creativity.

It’s a truism to point out that no one can avoid change. It’s part of the reality in… » Continue

November 13 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: breakthrough, business-fundamentalism, change, civilized-work, corporate-culture, creativity, dignity, effectiveness, Hamburger-Management, happiness, improvement, lifebalance, Management, priorities, slow-leadership, strategy, thinking, thought, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife, workplace | 1 comment»

GTD? Try WNTGD Instead

I’m amazed at the number of postings and advice articles, let alone pieces of software, that are spawned by the GTD phenomenon. To me, it’s yet another symptom of today’s short-term mentality and our obsession with activity. Getting Things Done is useful, of course. I’m not without sympathy for people with bulging schedules and huge to-do lists, who seek a better way to organize themselves. But I think they would… » Continue

September 11 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, checklists, firstthingsfirst, focus, gtd, Lifehack, objective, procrastinating, procrastination, task, timemanagement, todo, vision | 11 comments»

Conditions for Learning

If you want learning to work for you, you must create the conditions in which exploration can take place and discoveries can be made. It’s very clear what these are. Without them, all your efforts to learn and grown will be in vain. » Continue

May 21 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, breakthrough, competence, creativity, education, learn, learning, motivation, student, study, studying, thinking, train, training | 4 comments»

Attaining Breakthrough

Breakthrough demands you push beyond the obvious and the conventional. It’s going places you don’t think you can reach. It’s getting to your limit — then going still further. » Continue

May 15 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, change, development, education, goal, inspiration, learning, Management, performance, vision | 1 comment»