Tag Archives: forced efficiency

How Mind Mapping Software Can Decrease Your Productivity

26 May

Attention Mind Mappers! First, Why You Really Should Mind Map I’ve loved mind mapping for years.  Mind mapping has improved the quality of my thinking and learning, helped me generate thousands of ideas, helped me plan for my business, my work and personal life as well as saved me time and effort in many areas.  [...]

How I Became Addicted to Eating Frogs

14 May

One of the best things I ever did was become addicted to eating frogs. No, it’s not from my years dining out when living in Belgium, it’s ‘productivity speak’ for ‘getting the biggest, ugliest, hardest thing of the day done first’. I learned the idea of eating the frog first thing in the morning from [...]

Get Home Early Today – a Productivity Boost

15 Mar

Hate to say it but most people are ineffective.  They often don’t get the job done on time AND they don’t get home on time.  No one wins. Effective habits don’t come naturally to us.  Our default setting is ‘ineffective’.  And ‘effectiveness’ was never a subject at school.  It would be ironic in my opinion [...]