I came across a nice article on the The Creativity Post blog with 21 tips for working smarter, not harder. The tips are nice but I thought it would be interesting to see how I’ve applied them in my life. 1. Complete most important tasks first. Yes, I do this,...
Not working much I focus on impact and today was one of those days. It started as usual waking up early so that I had time for 30 minutes meditation before heading to Caffe Nero for an hours reading. Then heading to the doctors for my normal monthly blood tests...
The picture on the right is very important to me. I came across it about 10 years ago and found it both beautiful, thought provoking and the more I studied it more the meaning and subtlety I got from it. I pinned it to the whiteboard in our dining room....
I finished this audio book today and enjoyed it a lot, maybe in part due to the fact that I listened to it while hiking in the northern Lake District. Chris Hadfield reads the book himself and as it’s a deeply personal book this works well, even though Chris isn’t on...
Life seems to be too complicated now, when I was a kid life was simple, no bills to pay, house to maintain, computers to backup, food to buy and prepare, retirement to plan for. Then as I got older complexity gradually seeped into my life, I acquired more stuff, more...
In this morning eclectic mix of reading was a post from Tony Schwartz one of my favourite authors talking about the realities of meditation, he opens with this statement of fact: Here’s the promise: Meditation – and mindfulness meditation, in particular – will reduce your cortisol level, blood pressure, social anxiety and...
I started my day off nice and early at Caffe Nero so I could keep my reading list under some semblance of control and so that I had time for a long walking meeting with @MattMJH which we’d decided to do around Rivington, as usual. As my legs were far...
I’m feeling really rough today, pain that started in my ankle and wrist yesterday lunchtime spread to my fingertips and toes and everything in between last night, when I woke up one side of my body was pain free but the other side was still head to toe. On days...
I was up early enough today to get to Caffe Nero for my first hour of focussed reading, followed by a walk (in the rain) and then another hour at the Beach Terrace Cafe, not normally worthy of comment apart from the fact that as so often happens the theme...
Although this week is a ‘think week’ there’s a ‘crisis’ at work at the moment and for today at least I was drafted in to help. My focus of course is on identifying the strategic actions that we need to take to avoid another crisis like this across our entire...