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The Amateur vs. Expert Chasm
There are too many things I am simply an amateur at in life. If I pick up a sport or study a new topic, it's hard and clumsy at first. Actually, it's difficult for a while until I can get my brain and my body the
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Use This Leadership To Get Things Done
There are all these productivity systems out there, and I find this one thing is often underestimated. Speed. We don't live in a world where what comes in is controlled and steady. If you are like the typical knowledge worker, it is absolute chaos on a given business
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Eliminate All Those Failure Points and Get Results
It's hard enough to get results when the world is set up against you with adversity, obstacles and high hurdles. Furthermore, it is so easy to let in a thousand distractions, commitments and assets that contribute little or nothing to your goals. I can remember getting offered so
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Productivity Hack: Get Scheduling Commitments
It's Friday and most of the world is checking out. These days, with the connected economy, it's not much of a work day. But it's a great ritual every week to line up your next week. So, here's a little strategy you
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Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn't Work Hard
I saw this t-shirt at one of my son's track meets. That does sum things up when it comes to the playing field of life and business. I don't have much sorrow for talent that doesn't work hard. And I love the overcomer that
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What Executive Productivity Hinges On
As work relentlessly gets democratized, it's hard for people to get formal training that was once consolidated within large industrial companies. The internet does continually grow with knowledge and content and this should suffice to educate everyone. But it's hard to make sense of all the
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Unburden Yourself
I cannot overstate the value and pleasure of an unburdened life and clear mind. It's too easy to overcomplicate our lives with so many things that simply do not matter. I have observed the reality that Robert Ringer puts forth about human nature: Human beings, by nature, tend
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We Are the Factory
In my past life as an engineer, I used to visit manufacturing facilities, tool shops and fabrication outfits for project work. These are places where efficiency, speed and output are the focal point. Human beings acted like machines in their work pushing dozens or thousands of parts and assemblies through
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Don't Waste Your Time and Commit to Personal Growth
It sure is easy to get distracted. No doubt you can zone out with so many entertainment venues that are accessible. But while you are snoozing, there are so many people that are committed to personal growth in their downtime that are getting ahead. Think about the reality of the
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Skip the Line and Take Smartcuts
Shane Snow's Smartcuts is an excellent read to get you off your mundane thinking tracks and moving laterally towards results. The insights from case studies of those hackers that have skipped the line and percolated up inspire and inform those that want to figure out how to get
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Distractions Cost You
Making lots of tiny choices depletes one's subsequent self-control. ~ Shane Snow, Smartcuts I get worn out during a workday simply from death by a thousand cuts. Those thousand cuts take the form of the myriad decisions I am confronted with relentlessly. What do I eat? What do I
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Fooled by the Law of Diminishing Returns
At some point, the effort and cost are not worth it anymore. The Law of Diminishing Returns kicks in when building a business or even building a life. More investment of your time, money and attention may initially have high returns, but then at some point, the rewards taper. Will