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Micromanaging Ourselves To Death

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Each day, there are hundreds of blog posts written, book proposals submitted, teleseminars and webinars hawked and videos produced, all focused on the same set of principles. Making the most of everything. Productivity. Passion pursuits. Extracting something meaningful out of every drop of life, work, and otherwise. But are we Read more »

Stop Shipping

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Some of you have noticed that I’m no longer on the sidebar of this blog — but I haven’t gone away. I’ll be back from time to time as a guest author, and often as a reader. Why the change? Well, I followed my own advice, offered here: Stop shipping. Read more »

Playing the Zero-Sum Game

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I haven’t been around here much lately. I’m sorry about that. But I’ve been living one of the eternal truths of life: that time is a zero-sum game. I’m a systems thinker, which means I tend to think about how all the pieces and parts of things fit, and work, Read more »

Four Secrets of the Super Productive

I actually don’t know if I’d be considered super-productive. But I do get asked a bit how I “manage to do it all”. I certainly don’t do it all, and I have my days where I’m woefully behind or buried or overwhelmed. What I DO do, however, is get the Read more »

Working Hard Or Working Lots?

In the realm of phrases that are often used to talk about what we do every day, we toss around “working hard”. Everything from what it takes to succeed in life, to social media and business and writing and all the things in between. But here’s something to consider. Working Read more »

Project Management and the Dynamite Philosophy

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I’ve lost count of how many times people ask me how I stay organized and manage projects and tasks. For some reason, getting and staying organized seems to be a tough thing for a lot of people, so I promised I’d share some of what I do and what I’ve Read more »

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