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The Week Ahead
Building on last week’s post on a Daily Planning Ritual, let’s continue this week with the next piece of the Productivity Mastery puzzle – the Weekly Planning Ritual (and I promise next week’s post won’t be a monthly or quarterly ritual – by that point we are into goal planning). The strength of the daily planning ritual is it becomes…
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What’s Your Plan for Today?
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle Over the years, one of my favorite areas for coaching has been improving personal productivity. I’ve taught productivity classes to hundreds of people. Every time someone tells me they are still using what I taught them years ago I…
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Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
I have a request. If you’ve set any goals or new year’s resolutions, my request is that you take time within the next seven days to review those goals and identify one goal which you can break down into a series of small, incremental, achievable steps. I make this request because I’ve seen far too…
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For the Love of Reading
Note: Complimentary goal planning sessions are still available. See last week’s blog for details. One of my core values is Growth/Learning, and one of the ways it manifests is in my love of reading. Whether it’s reading for work, for personal development, or just for pleasure, I usually have multiple books going. My entire family loves books.…
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It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Yes, the holidays are wonderful, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about that next wonderful time of the year. The coming new year, and the inexorable goal planning that ensues. I understand that not everyone shares my perspective. We all have different activities we love and we loathe. For me, setting stretch…
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The Elements of Trust
I congratulate myself for making it through three blog posts without going deep on trust. Trust is fundamental for me in so many ways and is embedded in my core value of Integrity. In my learning with the Newfield Network, one aspect I found insightful was their distinctions for the elements of trust. Consider when someone…
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