The Power of Silence

January 28, 2010

No, this isn’t about 80’s Rock ballads (although, there is an idea…). What I want to ramble about today is the insessent background ‘noise’ we have in this information age. And more importantly, I want to ramble about the benefit to creative thinking of hiding from this noise on a regular basis.
Maybe I should define [...]

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At the Sharp End

January 27, 2010

Other than getting nothing done due to reading productivity and personal development blogs, my true passion is mountaineering. “So what?” I hear you shrug. Well, I want to talk about a concept from climbing that has a big application in our everyday life.
The traditional set-up for two climbers ascending a mountain is for them to [...]

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How Much of You to Develop at Once

January 20, 2010

How many ‘goals’ or ‘development points’ do you focus on at any one point in time? Do you choose one thing you are working on or towards, and leave that as you sole purpose? Or do you monitor all your targets, and apply each one as and when it is most appropriate?
I ask this as [...]

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How to Cope with an Addiction to Learning

January 13, 2010

A passion for learning is a good thing right? Any thing that helps motivate you to grow, improve and develop must be an advantage? The thing is though, that some of us have taken this to the point of addiction.
Addiction may seem a strong word, but often our desire to learn about something ends up [...]

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Making Decision-making Easier

January 7, 2010

What is the hardest thing that most of us have to do during our day? What activity keeps us awake at night, and plagues us during the day? Making decisions.
We have to make hundreds, probably thousands, every day of our lives – from ‘tea or coffee’ and ‘overtake that car or not’, to ’shall I [...]

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Why You Should Take a Break From What You Enjoy

January 5, 2010

So I took a holiday. I decided not to post anything over the Holidays. Why? Well aside from spending two weeks travelling aorund the cournty visiting those people I only normally see at weddings and funerals, I wanted to consciously do nothing constructive. I haven’t read my RSS feeds, looked at any other blogs, and [...]

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Is There Such Thing as Moderation?

December 15, 2009

Moderation is gray. I don’t mean it is dull; I mean it is that shading in between the black and white of all or nothing. It is not a pin point or a thin line, but a broad spectrum that bridges the extremes. But does is this spectrum actually benefit us in our everyday lives?
“Of [...]

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How Cutting Steel Can Make You More Productive

December 10, 2009

I was wandering around one of our manufacturing plants last week and got into an interesting discussion about how you cut a sheet of steel. No, I wouldn’t have thought that was interesting either, but I assure you it was. Why I hear you ask? Well, there was an interesting parallel between the many options [...]

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When is a Weakness a Development Opportunity?

December 8, 2009

A number of years ago I was sat in a meeting and commented that I was useless at detail – it was one of my weaknesses. A colleague looked aghast “Weaknesses? How do you look yourself in the mirror ever morning thinking ‘I have weaknesses’? These are ‘development opportunities‘”.
I must admit I was taken aback. [...]

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How do you Define Personal Development?

December 5, 2009

Following on from my last post where I looked at how you define productivity, this post will look at how I define ‘Personal Development’.
Personal Development is a much wider concept than Productivity – in fact, I would say that striving to improve your Productivity is an aspect of Personal Development. What we are talking about [...]

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