Posts Tagged ‘discipline’

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»

18 Tricks to Make New Habits Stick

Wouldn’t it be nice to have everything run on autopilot? Chores, exercise, eating healthy and getting your work done just happening automatically. Unless they manage to invent robot servants, all your work isn’t going to disappear overnight. But if you program behaviors as new habits you can take out the struggle.

With a small amount of initial discipline, you can create a new habit that requires little… » Continue

August 14 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: commitment, consistence, discipline, habit | 56 comments»

12 Rules for Self-Leadership

I had promised you I would follow up with my Rules for Self-Leadership this week, and they follow.

A Preface: Management and Leadership are not interchangeable words for me. We need both of them, for in part, management tends to be more internally focused (within a company, within an industry, within a person) whereas leadership is more externally focused on the future-forward actions you will take in the greater… » Continue

April 19 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: discipline, responsibility, rules, self-management, work-ethic | 13 comments»

12 Rules for Self-Management

Management is not just for managers, just as leadership is not just for leaders.

We all manage, and we all lead; these are not actions reserved for only those people who happen to hold these “positions” in a company. I personally think of management and leadership as callings, and we all get these callings to manage and lead at different times, and to different degrees.

Considered another way, I believe we… » Continue

April 12 2007 | By Rosa | Tagged: discipline, responsibility, rules, self-management, work-ethic | 9 comments»

6 Tips for Effective Discipline and Consequences for Parents

Letting your child to understand every moves and actions may cause reactions and consequences is important. First step is to giving them appropriate punishment and consequences for any rule breaking actions they have. Parenting Ideas has an article on 6 tips for effective and consequences - Related, Respectful, Reasonable, Strong, Swift, and Short-term:

… The first was designed by Stephen Glenn, the author of “How to Raise Self-Reliant Children in a… » Continue

June 12 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: discipline, parenting | 1 comment»

Use Design Methods to Define Problems

A fascinating conversation is happening over at Functioning Form, a design journal written by Luke Wroblewski. He is using the skillsets common to designers to unlock the other have of problem solving. Think about it: designers are often considered to be holding the solution to a problem. Instead, Luke says in his conversation with Tom Chi that a very powerful use of a designer’s skills and knowledge is to… » Continue

April 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: discipline, Lifehack, lifehacks, problem | no comments»

IQ and Self-discipline

Congnitive Daily has an article which talks about the IQ and Self-discipline. We know IQ is directly related to our achievement. But do you know self-discipline may have impact on achievement as well?

… Both IQ and self-discipline are correlated with GPA, but self-discipline is a much more important contributor: those with low self-discipline have substantially lower grades than those with low IQs, and high-discipline students have much better grades than… » Continue

February 1 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: discipline, iq | 1 comment»

Fight The Flab!

How To Lose the Useless Items that Weigh Down Your Day (Part 1) » Continue

January 16 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: article, Communication, concentration, discipline, email, howto, Lifehack, prioritization, Productivity, tips | 18 comments»

10 Tips for Making Time-outs Work

If you are a parent, here are some tips for you. When your child acts up and you need to discipline, is there a way to discipline and what sort of plan you should have to make it work? Over at Parenting Ideas, they introduced a child discipline called Time-outs, and best of all they have a list of 10 tips for making it works for you: