Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category

I’m a big fan of Getting Things Done (GTD).  It’s an elegant, almost simple, set of disciplines and systems that promises “Stress-Free Productivity”.  However, like anything worth doing, those disciplines and systems require dedication to get the most out of them.  The following is a short list of the GTD systems that work together.  The [...]

Vision:  Just how important is it? This is not just a rhetorical question. If you are coaching someone, and that person is failing to complete their assignments, there is a good chance that your coachee has either lost connection to their vision, or their vision has expired.  Riding your coachee about the failure is pointless, [...]

Ok Successies, going with the philosophy of “ready-fire-aim” I just blindly added “Post Notification” to my WordPress site (yes, what you are reading at this very second).   The goal is to give you elite subscribers a notification when the site is updated.  The goal is also to NOT spam you.  If it doesn’t work, I’ll [...]

Last week was a low week for me. As a quick warning, if you thought that this blog was going to be, “everything is rosy, all the time” then you thought wrong.  The road to success is full of pot-holes.  Deep, suspension destroying pot-holes. I am involved in an organization called Toastmasters, and last week, [...]

When it comes to a new idea, a mentor once told me that my feelings and past experiences are lousy tools for evaluating that new idea. What he said was something to the effect of, “You need to join the let’s-find-out club.  Will that idea work?  I don’t know, let’s find out” At the same [...]