Trouble Getting Started with Your Effectiveness Habits?
Many of you have told me, “I want to start using these effectiveness tools but I haven’t gotten around to it just yet.” If you …
Your Lists
When you adopt the Effectiveness Habits, you end up with a set of interrelated lists that forms your task system. Here are the most important …
The Catch
Today’s note is about a basic tool called The Catch. It is a tool that most of us really need and don’t use. And if …
The Four Lenses of Success
Success for you or your organization is simple. You need only look through four lenses described below to see where you have trouble and where …
The Effectiveness Habits: an Overview
For quick reference and review, here is a list of the seven Effectiveness Habits with brief descriptions and links to detailed descriptions of each. 1 …
Resistance to Discipline
So, have you built your system of lists yet? Have you adopted more than one of the seven Effectiveness Habits yet? No?! I’m shocked. Actually, …
How to unstick the lingering “to dos” on your lists
You may have an item or two on your to-do list(s) that seem to just sit there, gathering dust, and not getting done. Every time …
The Ladder
The Ladder, like The Flip, helps with Effectiveness Habit #2: Feel Good. Then Act. To feel good, remove your attention from thoughts about what you do not want as …
How to know when you are feeling bad
Effectiveness Habit #2: Feel Good. Then Act. asks you to act only when you feel good. Sometimes, though, you may feel bad and be unaware that …
The Flip
The Flip is an unexpectedly effective tool you can use to feel good before you act. (See Effectiveness Habit #2: Feel Good. Then Act.) When …