“Even if you’re not self-employed, your boss is you. You manage your career, your day, your responses. You manage how you sell your services and your education and the way you talk to yourself. “Odds are, you’re doing it poorly. “If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, [...]
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The world’s worst boss – by Seth Godin
Posted in Beliefs, Effective, Organisations on 04/12/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive
Posted in Effective on 30/09/2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a huge fan of heat maps, and here recently I’ve started to think about productivity in terms of heat maps, as well. The above picture is a heat map of my daily productive capacity. Productive capacity is different than what you’re actually producing. The way I think about it is that it’s the amount [...]
Wellbeing, Aging, and the Rhythm of Life
Posted in Effective on 30/09/2010 | Leave a Comment »
An old friend of mine married late in life. He told me this story about 20 years ago now. Scotty’s wife kept saying that every 3 or 4 weeks he became, as she said it, impossible to live with. He got sullen, angry, wouldn’t communicate, and would go off and sulk. At first he didn’t [...]
The Willpower Paradox
Posted in Effective, Nurturing on 29/07/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Willingness is a core concept of addiction recovery programs—and a paradoxical one. Twelve-step programs emphasize that addicts cannot will themselves into healthy sobriety—indeed, that ego and self-reliance are often a root cause of their problem. Yet recovering addicts must be willing. That is, they must be open to the possibility that the group and its [...]
New Everyday Wellbeing Programme
New Everyday Wellbeing Programme starting in Newcastle upon Tyne in October Details here
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