The Chicken and Egg of Personal Traits

May 27, 2010

What have farm produce got to do with anything? Well, you know the old saying: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” It is a circuitous argument – how do you have a chicken if it wasn’t born from an egg? Yet how was that egg made without an earlier chicken. And this is [...]

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Improving Your Gravitas

May 25, 2010

Had an interesting conversation the other day with an old friend of mine. Like me, he works for a large organisation, and has been slowly working his way up the food chain over a number of years. He likes his job, and is good at his job. But he feels he has hit a ceiling. [...]

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Bibliosnap – James Mallinson

May 22, 2010

Welcome to the second in my ‘Bibliosnap’ series – snapshots of my current bibliography – what I am enjoying reading and what I am inspired by. This time it is James Mallinson. James is a blogger who I have enjoyed following for a number of years, having built up an excellent Productivity Blog, Organize IT. [...]

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Which Tasks Do We Put Off Most Often?

May 20, 2010

So I did a bit of a personal audit. I had a look at which of the (far too many) tasks on my lists were most often put-off. It wasn’t a very scientific exercise, but I put the date each item hit my to do list on the item: “Write entertaining yet informative blog post [...]

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Choosing Your Own Habits

May 18, 2010

We all have habits. This is not a bad thing. Well most of them aren’t. For want of a better phrase, they ‘keep you regular’. Habits run into pretty much everything that we do. Do you drive the same route to work everyday? Do you always have granola for breakfast? Coffee with two sugars? Habits [...]

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Bibliosnap – Hauke Borow

May 15, 2010

I read a lot. I read a lot about a lot. I’m one of those people who can lose days to Wikipedia – you read one article then click on a link that takes you off on a tangent, then from that article another link takes you on another tangent, and so on. This is [...]

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The Case For Everything Buckets

May 13, 2010

Yesterday I was reading the always-informative Mac Sparky blog, and was pointed towards a very interesting article by Alex Payne on our propensity these days to use computer programs as an ‘everything bucket’ in which to throw knowledge and, well, stuff into. We are talking here about the likes of Evernote, Yojimbo et al. His [...]

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6 Things To Do When You Can’t Sleep

May 11, 2010

Insomnia hits us all to some extent at some point in time. Maybe it is the night before a big presentation. Or Christmas Eve . Sometimes it is a longer term problem – a month, a year, or something you just live with. I’m not going to give you a list of ways to help [...]

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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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Happiness is…

May 4, 2010

Happiness is… …waking up with a smile on your face. …always thinking “I like what I have”. …enjoying now, before wishing for tomorrow. …being with people who only want your company. …enjoying everything you do rather than trying to only do what you enjoy. …realising you don’t need a reason to smile. …being comfortable that [...]

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