Career Planning, Learning and Performance

You’re either attracting or repelling. At any given moment in your life or career, through your thinking and actions you’re attracting some things and repelling others. It’s cause and effect. You’re attracting or repelling: problems clients employers relationships more work respect attention moods better odds happier moments Are you attracting and repelling the right things? [...]

Reading time 3 mins At the end of this post I offer you 4 decisions to sort your life and career out.  Don’t jump straight to them or you’ll fail to understand and do anything about them. Learn to Get Whatever You Want ‘Learning’ is the key to just about anything.  Anyone can learn how [...]

This is an interesting article about employers retaining employees: http://www.humanresourcesmagazine.com.au/articles/35/0C066735.asp?Type=59&Category=917 It’s true that it’s cheaper for companies to retain than recruit new people.  If you’re considered high value, your employer is likely to try to retain you.  There’s a lot of talk right now within organisations about retaining ‘talent’.  But what if that ‘talent’ (that’s [...]

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 [...]

If you’re looking for free mind mapping software, the best without a doubt at the time of writing is Xmind No need for me to review it.  I’ve saved you the decision by using the best mind mapping tools available for quite some time. It rivals the commercial Mindmanager for it’s main functions and if [...]

If simple, clear and easy is your thing, try this: http://teuxdeux.com There are no fancy self-management techniques in this software, so be aware of the flaws and problems created by to-do list style self management.  If you’re unsure what they are, drop me a note or comment below and I’ll respond. If you want a [...]

A great resource on mind mapping and visual thinking/organisation software: http://www.mind-mapping.org You can refine your search based on your operating system.

Many people just don’t think things through before throwing themselves in to something.  You have… Your inputs: 24 hours a day – less now after reading this $x x energy Your desired outputs: money enjoyment (or positive feelings) Every second of every day uses some of those inputs, and you get guaranteed outputs, but those [...]