Your mind is cloudy. And heavy. And noisy. You know why? Because it got that way. Because it likes to add stuff. And then a bit more. And a bit more… It just can’t leave the most simple of its observations alone. It just has to tamper with them. It quickly takes what it notices…
“Pie. I wish I could determine pi, ‘Eureka’ cried the great inventor” Time someone learning the number pi fluently to 11 decimal places. How long would they take? 10 minutes? Longer? To get it accurate? That’s 14 digits. Takes some effort. Time yourself repeating the title (Pie.) and first two lines of the poem above,…
Pay-off: quickly increase your effectiveness and efficiency (+ free cheat sheet) Investment: 4 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here Everyone seems too busy these days. But most people, I’d argue, are too busy being ineffective. “I won’t be able to help you this afternoon, I’ve blocked two hours out of my schedule to bang my…
Pay-off: sell more, more easily, by getting someone else to tackle your sales challenges ahead of you Investment: 10 minutes – this is a thorough ‘how to’ post that should make significant impact on your sales performance if you apply what you learn Please share if you think others will find it useful. (Thank you!) Consider this week’s…
Pay-off: a more accurate sense of where you’re really at and what to do next Investment: 2.5 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here What are you paid most to do consistently? What’s the most important consistent deliverable or outcome in your work? OK, on a scale of 1-10 how good or confident are…
Pay-off: overcome procrastination, make work more rewarding and get home on time Investment: 4 minutes You procrastinate don’t you? Even though people have told you to “break things into small parts” and “just do it!”, you still procrastinate. Why? Because these two pieces of common advice don’t address the root cause of the problem. And…
Pay-off: puts you in the driving seat to learn faster Investment: 8 mins (4 mins if you’d learned to speed read) Do you know what wastes most of your time, money and effort when it comes to learning? Often it’s simply believing that learning should be done to you, rather than by you, and putting…