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Coping with Being Tired

May 24, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post on how I deal with my perpetual insomnia – how to occupy yourself whilst lying awake at night. I though I would follow that up with a companion piece – how to remain productive through a day when a long night has left you feeling like you’ve [...]

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Sharing to Get Better

May 3, 2011

So you have spent years worrying out the best way to be productive. To get the last bit of output out of yourself. You have lean and mean systems, and have extracted the best knowledge from the best books and websites out there. You have invested an awful lot of time, and risk, at getting [...]

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Knowing When to Leave your Job

April 20, 2011

Most people leave their job when they can take the long commute, annoying colleagues, or frustrating boss no longer. It is not until they are at the end of their tether when they decide to look elsewhere. Why would you look to move any sooner? If you are happy doing what you are doing, what [...]

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One Thing Well

March 28, 2011

I have always been an avocate of multi-facited tools. Swiss Army Knives for productivity. If a website, a device, an app, or an interface could do everything I could possibly want then it was what I needed. Then I realised that the one thing that best fitted this criteria was Microsoft Word. And then I [...]

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Silver Bullets and Panaceas

February 21, 2011

Just a quick note to those of you out there looking for a quick fix or secret password. A sliver bullet or panacea. Change, unfortunately, takes some work. Improvement requires some discomfort. And Growth needs a little pain. Sad fact of life – but the sooner you realise this, the sooner you can stop enduring [...]

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Do You Really Need to Know Anything?

May 6, 2010

From the day that we are born into this world we learn. At first through play, then through graft, and finally through experience. It is part of our nature, our culture, and our society. Some of it is sub-conscious learning. A fair bit is voluntary learning. And the balance is required learning. But there has [...]

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Resources for Setting-up GTD on Outlook, Lotus Notes, and Blackberry

July 30, 2009

Most places of work these days have Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes, and a fair few provide the ball-and-chain that is a Blackberry. Having tried to implement GTD systems on all three platforms, I thought I would share some of the resources I have found (I know there is also the whole iPhone thing, but [...]

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Half-a-dozen Monkeys

July 14, 2009

Okay. So you put half-a-dozen monkeys in a room, with a bunch of bananas hanging from the ceiling, and a step ladder leading up to them. As soon as any of the monkeys go up the ladder to get a banana, you turn the sprinklers on drenching them with ice cold water. Over a period [...]

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