discussion of productivity for business and personal use along with applications to assist and methods and techniques .
Soft Skills Needed today and in the future Certainly not an exhaustive list but a good place to start. For each skill listed a Book, TED Talk and College Course will be suggested. Effective Communication: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation by Celeste Headlee […]
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Each year this thought comes back to haunt us as New Year, New You. We promise ourselves to do better this time. We won’t botch it or loose interest this time. It will be different. Think about it. If all this effort really worked, there would be fewer people starting this routine. What’s in your
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Getting Things Done – Revisit the principles while we are keeping our resolutions It’s early in the year, and most of us feel that we are on top of our resolutions to do better than last year. Changing habits on how we do things is not easy. This time of year, it’s not a bad
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Where did my focus go? How can I get it back? Why have I lost my focus? I just keep jumping around from one thing to another. Sound familiar? Today we are distracted by so many things that can lead us down rabbit holes. Sometimes we plan to do something, whether it’s work or relaxing
New Year – New You… not so fast We all, well most of us, like to make a few resolutions at the start of the year. After all, you will pass GO, get your $200 right and take another lap around the board of life? (For those of you old enough, that happens in the
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Many of us think we can wake up early and meditate, go to the gym, go to work, read a book a week, spend time with family, work on our business ideas, research stock investments, volunteer, attend club meetings, take piano lessons, learn a new language… you get the idea. Out motivation is like a
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Thinking doesn’t have to feel so hard. WSJ April 27, 2024 Michaeleen Doucleff As a college student 25 years ago, Andrew Westbrook struggled to stay focused in class. He certainly had the capacity to concentrate; he could do it intensely when he really loved a topic. “When you’re totally engrossed in a good book, thinking
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Ali Abdaal is a prolific producer of videos on YouTube, many about getting things done, a/k/a productivity. He was a young doctor in the UK but decided that his prodigious efforts to be more productive resulted in a decision to quit medicine as a resident or junior doctor to focus on his YouTube channel. See
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Time to Jump Ship from Evernote? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! Like most things in life, it depends on whom you ask. Evernote has undergone several changes in features, security, company management, pricing, and stability all of which causes angst for users. Bottom line – if it still works
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It only takes a few degrees off course to keep you from reaching your goals. In 1997, an Air New Zealand flight with 257 passengers was on an Antarctic excursion. The pilots did not notice that the flight path had been diverted by two degrees. When the flight arrived at what they thought was the
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