Scott Walker (not his real name) is a good friend of mine. He has nine black belts. Note, they are not in Judo or some other martial art. They have been acquired as a result of arriving at a hotel, looking for a belt for his trousers, and realising that it was still...
When setting out to do work, how we define our projects and tasks has a huge impact on whether we’ll make good choices in terms of doing the right thing, keep working, overcoming procrastination and even simply getting started. This is an actual (sic) transcription of...
At the age of 44 I was 15 stone. Had I been 6ft 8, this would have been fine, but at only 5ft 9 I had a problem. A big problem. My expanding waistline shouldn’t have been a surprise given that my favourite foods were Easter eggs and pancakes – though not...
Christmas is a time for sitting around and pondering. So when my wife, Denise, asked if we should all go trampolining on Boxing day I should have said: “That sounds like an interesting idea, let me think about it ’till Easter”. Instead, I said:...
It’s the 1st of January and I’m cooking and cleaning; which can only mean one thing… I’m procrastinating and I have something more important to do. Believe it or not when you have some thing big or difficult to do and you end up doing house work instead it can...
This month I interviewed Leadership Coach, Marshall Goldsmith. Marshall has just been recognised as the world’s number one leadership thinker. He is a coach to many of the Fortune 500 CEOs and a past president. His forte is behavioural change. In the interview...
How to ensure your GTD® Weekly Review® becomes habitual. Rumour has it that before he started writing each morning, Winston Churchill would drink a couple of bottles of Guinness and eat a steak pie. Seemingly it was his way of calming his brain, overcoming reluctance...
We all sometimes fall out of the habit of doing our Weekly Review®, where we empty our collection buckets, get our inbox to zero and reconnect with our next actions. The review is an active behavioural choice; especially if it’s still early days for your GTD practice,...