#0565 Too Much Noise
Having spent just a few days off grid, you realise that most of the day to day communication forced upon you is just noise. Adding almost no value but robbing you of time and focus….
Category: Change
#0564 Get It Done Now
How urgent is it really. Leaving it to the last minute will always increase the stress and urgency of any task. Chasing the ball is exhausting, yet anticipating where it will be makes it look…
#0563 Months Wasted
It happens year after year. The holiday season creeps up on us like it is a big surprise. Either desperately attempting to finish things off or delaying them until the new year. Reappearing in January…
#0556 Keep Tweaking
Rarely does it work first time. Whenever you build, modify, fix something, chances are it will not be as perfect as you imagined. Out of the gate there will be something that is just not…
#0553 Shedding The Old
If only I knew that before. Throughout life there are insights you discover along the way that can change you. Things that you wish you had of known sooner. Sometimes altering your trajectory forever. It…
#0545 Painfully Slow
Bogged down in red tape? As an enterprise gets bigger it is natural to place additional checks and balances to ensure continuity. Many do so at the expense of what got them there, speed and…
#0543 Embrace The New
I feel the emotion of my daughter finishing high school and the unknown ahead. When your entire living memory are the boundaries, people and experiences of a school, not having to turn up Monday is…
#0542 The Company You Keep
They say you are the average of the five people closest to you. I also believe you are the average of many other groupings. Your news sources, social media habits, the shows you watch, communities…
#0536 Give It A Go
“Let’s do this” is so much more fun than “no”. Invariably leading to an experience, good, bad or indifferent. Experience is how you grow. An idea is worthless until you give it a crack. Giving…
#0518 Simplifying
Is it fear or a lack of understanding? It astounds me how complicated people make things that have little upside. Cobbled together to get something done when a much simpler version is available. Many of…
#0516 Open to Learning
If you have pure conviction you are on the right path then proceed with gusto and by all means dig your heels in. For the most part, be open to ideas, listen to perspective, seek…
#0514 Time to Do Better
Just because you disrespect your time, does not give to the right to disrespect others. If you are in the habit of turning up late, canceling last minute, running long, you should take a moment…
#0510 Time Travel
Pondering choices. Imagine for a moment you could go back in time just once in your life to change the course of your destiny, when would that be and what would you do different? If…
#0505 Get Curious
What don’t you understand? If you find yourself frustrated with others, it is likely you are not attuned to what is going on with them. In your head it is obvious, but to them them…
#0501 Being Present
With effort, I have become more singular focused. I am able to be present in the moment. Using the technique in meditation, to acknowledge a distracting thought, then bring myself back to the thing at…
#0491 Show Up
I have a red chair in the corner of my office, it serves two primary purposes. It is my thinking chair, a place to contemplate the big ideas, the strategy, the future. My writing place,…
#0490 Enslaved
Who controls your time, your most valuable asset? The majority I encounter are enslaved to the whims of others as to when something needs to occur. Meetings, reports, proposals, first drafts, final versions, the unexpected…
#0487 Feedback
Most struggle with it. Receiving feedback is challenging. How do you not take it personally? Detachment. As a business, detaching yourself from the emotion of the words and focusing on the outcome in service of…
#0484 Not So Bad
There is always a reason to not take action and that in itself is the action. Marcus Aurelius said “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Fear is the biggest…
#0479 Choose
You will not get more time, make better choices.