Career Planning, Learning and Performance

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.  [...]

Here’s a great way to get stuff done.  Do what you feel like doing when you feel like doing it – but ensure you’re knocking things off your ‘important’ list.  I’m a big fan of this approach to working.  Time Management expert Mark Forster knows how to get stuff done and has turned this approach [...]

This discussion is a bit old now, but something I read got me thinking again.  I’m writing this post to simplify the solution.  This ‘successful’ (I think that term should always be in inverted commas) CEO claims he does everything by email as it’s more effective than using the phone, plus it creates a written [...]

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 [...]

I’ve met a lot of teachers over the years who want to get out of teaching.  Why? I’ve also met and worked with lots of people over the years who consider teaching for one reason above all else: because it’s great for the holidays.  What?  What about the longer working part?  And the effect it [...]

. PicApp Image Here’s a productivity lesson I’ve derived from sales training. Ever heard the old sales training advice ‘ABC’?  Always Be Closing.  If you’re not in sales you might have heard it in movies like Glengarry Glen Ross or Boiler Room (two excellent movies by the way that everyone should watch if they want [...]

I’m going to show you how you can make a huge leap of progress in your career. I meet plenty of people through my work, all at different stages in their career.  It doesn’t take me long to decide which of three general attitudes they have towards their work: 1.  There are those who think [...]

. . If you could work from home, would you? I find myself having or hearing this conversation a lot. Many people surprise me by saying, ‘I just couldn’t work from home’. What ‘Working From Home’ Really Means What they may be overlooking, is once you work ‘from home’ you’re pretty much managing yourself. So [...]

Really?  You can be more productive than your computer allows you to be? Yep.  Well, of course your computer is the right tool for certain jobs.  But it’s all too easy to get lazy and try to do everything via your computer.  Ultimately, using your computer for too many things chokes your productivity. Ever heard [...]

Super Smart Note Taking for Mac and iPhone Users – 6 Productivity Tips Tip 1: Buy an iPhone – I’m confident you’ll make the cost back if you use it to the full in terms of saved time, money and effort over time (and much more than that if you download and use the right [...]