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An Exercise Snack
This isn’t about walking – walking as a topic has been done to death– by me, among others – Don’t get me wrong. You get fresh air, you get a mental reset – you get exposure to fractal patterns in nature… bird song, calming neurotransmitters, fresh air – it’s a heady cocktail. It’s a thinker’s drug…
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Publish, and Be Damned
Is your work life more complicated, cluttered, and disorganised than you would Like? Do you ever find yourself tangled up with dormant projects…… half-completed undertakings? Workers in factories, retail, and offices have tasks to complete, and they tick them off, one after another…. …Then they get some more.But in this world we are our own…
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You are STILL not too old (for heaven’s sake)
You Are Not Too Old There’s a cruel little voice that whispers to so many frustrated creatives: “If I’d kept up the songwriting, the painting, the poetry… I’d be really good by now. But I let the opportunity pass. Life got it the way… It’s too late.” That single belief: “It’s too late” has quietly…
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The Highlights Reel
The highlights reel of creativity: If you pick up a masterpiece from Chekhov, or Hemingway or Austen, your eye might fall on a beautifully constructed sentence that just perfectly encapsulates an idea you recognise but have never seen put into words.A nuanced diamond of insight… poetic and profound… …that just… …effortlessly flowed from heaven though…
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“Work is much more fun, than fun.” Noël Coward.
Underrated as an anti-depressant, and understandably so, this is nonetheless an absolute prerequisite for long term mental health, as well as a very powerful tonic for getting out of ruts. A passion for purpose Motivational speaker Wayne Dyer used to say: “Every child comes to Earth with secret orders…” This might not be literally true.…
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How To: Reclaim Your Attention From The Mobile Phone
Introduction This should be a classic productivity hack – but you don’t hear about it much. We are all guilty of excessive mobile phone checking at times. The finest minds in tech came up with this piece of kit and their remit is drawing users back, fostering engagement, which understandably leads to some addiction-like behaviours.…
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Spare moments are the gold dust of time.
Get ahead at work Elsewhere on the site we have covered how to work more efficiently, work smarter, save time, conserve mental energy and improve your work. These are hugely beneficial, but they do create a new problem, one that busy, dogged, ineffective employees never encounter – what do you do with the extra time,…
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Productivity Growth: How Tomatoes Lead To Better Work In Less Time
Introduction The work that gets us noticed in our career is deep, intelligent, and thought-provoking. It is not filing. It is not responding to emails either. If we are knowledge workers, then our mental resources are what got us hired & are what will get us promoted. We need them to be fully operational and…
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“Happiness is not by chance, but by choice”: Jim Rohn
Look on the bright side The human brain is an amazing thing but unfortunately it is clever enough to completely disable us in settings where we are not comfortable. We may become withdrawn, defensive, averse, shy, hostile, even physically sick. We are not happy and we want to get out of there. This might be…
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“The first step to win yourself is wake up early” – Sukant Ratnakar
Copy shamelessly from the best If there is one piece of universally understood and uncontroversial advice, this is surely it. There have literally been entire books written to express this one thought, expressed in 3 words – Get Up Early. The number of successful individuals who cite this as a competitive advantage is legion. Jack…