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Personal Development

5 Tasks That Shouldn’t Be On Your To Do List

March 18, 2010

I hear you, I hear you – “How would Rich know whether or not something should be on my list”. And your right. I am just speculating, but I bet I’m not far off the mark…
You see, we all have good intentions. In fact, some of us have GREAT intentions. And it turns out your [...]

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Why Getting Better Can Make You Feel Worse

March 16, 2010

We are constantly striving to improve ourselves, our health, our finances, and our lives in general. Maybe you have a detail development plan where every action gets you a little closer to where you want to be. Maybe you just lie in bed every night wishing you earn twice as much.
But does any progress we [...]

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Why You Should Bother With Personal Development

March 11, 2010

Just a quick post to say that I wrote an article on why you should bother with Personal Development – I have posted it as a Squidoo Lens just to have a play with that site. Have a look!
Why You Should Bother with Personal Development (click the link to be whisked to the article!)

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Why GTD Isn’t Always Personal Development

March 9, 2010

I am a big fan of GTD. Some days it is all that holds the fiberous parts of my life together! And it is definitely why I think I am more productive than most people.
But I think GTD has a big problem – it is focused very much on the short term. Yes there are [...]

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How to Survive Your Annual Review

February 25, 2010

It feels like you’ve just been sentenced to life in prison when you get that reminder from personnel that it is time for the annual review process. A futile month long exercise in pointless formed, and meaningless comments.
Yes, I am being overly cynical about this, but they are usually nothing more than a personal PR [...]

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10 Questions To Ask Yourself Every Week

February 18, 2010

Often we don’t spot things have gone wrong until they are so far screwed that a solution seems impossible. Other times we look back and think “why did I waste my time on that, I should have been doing this”.
What is missing is a regular status update. Something often enough that we can notice when [...]

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Is Stress Just Relative?

February 16, 2010

What are the top three things in your life you would remove if you could. I bet you a sizable slice off chocolate cake that ’stress’ is in there. And if it wasn’t, then you probably just didn’t think about…
Stress is what makes you feel sick before a job interview, makes your heart sink when [...]

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Choose Your Impact

February 11, 2010

Everyone has a ‘tic’. Yes, there is a medical interpretation of this but I am not referring too that here (at least not directly). But every one has something by which people remember them by – you know what I mean – the thing you whisper to your colleague in the lift after a meeting.
Let [...]

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10 Reasons Why You Should Get Angry

February 9, 2010

We all like to think we are that icy cool operator. The Roger Moore of the office. But most of us are aren’t. Some of us certainly aren’t. And a few of us are so far away from this that the concept has no meaning.
But this isn’t a bad thing [...]

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When to Do and when to Learn to Do

February 4, 2010

I agree with a lot of what Seth Godin says. He is a rarity in that he consistantly observes, communictates, and then explains the ’so what’. That last bit is a differntiator. But listening to his interview with Merlin Mann today he used an old, tired, jibe – rather than spend 12 hours a day [...]

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