Personal Development

Improvement Binging

January 30, 2012

Momentum for imprvement tends to come in waves. Binges if you will. You’ll have a week where all you want to do is get better at something – it consumes you. And then you go off the boil and lapse back to your old habits. The things is, often it is not just one thing [...]

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Good Days and Bad Days

August 23, 2011

One of the biggest effects on our ability to do things, is our mood. We tend to ignore it because we can’t control it. But if you really look at the days you got a lot done, I bet they’ll all have been days when you where is a particular mood. Now whilst you can [...]

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Management Styles Spotted Today

April 5, 2011

The Old Timer Characteristics – Gentile in nature, but firm in opinion. Has seen it all, probably twice. Just pretends no one else is speaking, rambling on in sort sort of monologue, but confident that what they thin is the correct solution to any eventuality. Effectiveness – 6/10 Effect on own ego – 8/10 Effect [...]

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Stabilise Before you Jump

March 31, 2011

The grass is always greener on the other side. Sometimes it just sounds great to be somewhere that has grass at all. There is nothing wrong with wanting be in a different situation/job/location – it is all part of that growth and development malarkey that keeps us going. But do you really think it is [...]

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Monkey On-the-bus – Volume 1

September 21, 2010

I really appreciate you reading this blog – I genuinely do. And as such, I have had an idea… In all likelihood, the majority of readers will have joined me recently – this means they won’t have had the benefit of the wealth of knowledge held here in the Half-a-dozen Monkeys archieves. And then it [...]

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Can You Force Creativity?

September 2, 2010

Well can you? Can you make yourself produce uniqueness on demand? Chances are that you are already trying. For me, creativity is about the production of something that is crafted from raw materials – rather than the mere winding of a well grooved handle. Writing a report is creative. Doing your expenses isn’t. Pulling together [...]

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Minimalism is not Simplicity

August 31, 2010

Minimalism seems to be the new thing-that-was-the-new-thing-before-this-thing. Particular in productivity and personal development. Everyone seems to be getting a bit too amorous with dramatic pictures of an Ikea desks with nothing on them other than a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. “You get more done when there is less around”. Quite. And ever since that [...]

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How to be an Expert

July 15, 2010

We live in a world of ‘experts’. The sheer amount of freely available information out there, especially on the ‘interwebs’, mean we are all ‘experts’. In any field we want. All we need to do is read the Wikipedia article and a couple of forum posts and we know all we need to know. There [...]

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Fighting the Fear of Trying

June 17, 2010

I was watching my 18 month old son playing at the weekend. By ‘playing’ I mean causing general mayhem around the house. And I don’t mean to suggest I don’t play with him often – I just for once sat and watch HOW he was playing. You know what – he’s a persistent little bugger… [...]

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Bibliosnap – Bud Hennekes

June 15, 2010

Good morning/afternoon/evening. Welcome to another in my occasional Bibliosnap series – a snapshot of the blogs, books, articles, or even tweets that inspire and inform me. These are recommendations of places to go for great personal development or productivity content, deilivered by great writers with great writing. These are the contents of my bookcase and [...]

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