Balance Your System for Sanity
To stay effective and sane, balance the complexity of your personal effectiveness system. If it is too complex, you won’t use it. If it is …
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Effectiveness Habit #8: Be Explicitly Win-Win
I had said that there are now three new effectiveness habits to go with the original seven. Here is first of those three, Effectiveness Habit …
Do What You Can
Stephen Covey, in his famous book the The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, never said, “When you want to control, stick to what you …
Ignite Others’
What if the only way to get anyone to do anything was to show them how doing what you suggest generates the exact wins they …
Busyness and Angst: a Cure
Essayist and cartoonist Tim Kreider wrote the following in his New York Times opinion piece called the The ‘Busy’ Trap. “Busyness serves as a kind …
3 New Habits for Back-to-School
How are you doing with the Effectiveness Habits and building your lists? Back-to-school time is a good time to refocus on them. And it’s a good …
Take Breaks
If you have a lot of work to get done today, try taking a break. Or two. Pushing hard for long periods is not that …
Shameless Plug for Habit #7
While we may prefer to focus on the concrete Effectiveness Habits such as MOD It and the Refreshes, there is treasure in the less concrete …
Enough of Productivity and Efficiency
“Productivity” and “efficiency” are words that describe how we work, do tasks, get stuff done. Both words focus on increasing output per unit of resource. …