Career Planning, Learning and Performance

Just woken up and today I feel like simplifying. So I’ll take Tim Ferris’s advice from “the 4 hour work week book” and identify just 2 things I must do today. Instant clarity and focus! Oh and I’ve chosen them such that they get done by 11am. You know..so I can use the rest of [...]

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On reflection I’m not so sure Winston Churchill was right when he said, ‘never give in, never ever give in’.  When he said this in context, it’s fair enough, but the stand alone quote can be dangerous if just blindly followed.  That’s true of many quotes of course.  In context, they’re fine but isolated they [...]

What’s the fastest and most efficient way to make something happen? What’s the shortest distance between 2 points? What’s the straight line between where you’re at and the result you want? Rather than learning, practicing, investigating, trial and error, waiting, and adopting the ‘journey there’ mentality, what could you do to get your result RIGHT [...]

What happens when you’ve run out of steam? Recently I was working on a project with a group of people.  We’d spent a few weeks working on it with a fair amount of drive and progress only to suddenly hit the dreaded ‘slump’ where energy and progress flickered and almost went entirely out.  And interestingly [...]

It’s simple. First decide whatever it is you lack that you want more of. Start with your career.  What do you want more of?  Earnings?  Respect?  Recognition?  Time off? Then, put more attention on how to get it.  Study it.  Write about it, even privately to yourself. You get more of what you put your [...]