Being focused — on your goal, your task, your purpose — is a key ingredient of success. We know this. If focusing was easy, everyone would being doing it. This is where a lot of motivational ra-rah fails us: “Just focus. Zero in, prioritize, it’s easy when you …just focus.” True, things do get exponentially
Sir Bob Geldolf wrote the lyrics to Do They Know It’s Christmas Time? in the back of the limo on his way to the recording studio. Between 11am and 7pm, with melody samples from Tears for Fears, and Boy George being flown in by Concord, Do They Know It’s Christmas Time? was in the can
I’m done putting my life into categories. Quadrants. Day types. Feck. Here’s how it happened: Last year I turned my life upside down. Took a break from marriage. Moved. Shelved numerous obligations to meet a writing deadline. Avoided said writing deadline for a long time. Slammed that writing deadline. Put my health significantly further up
I no sooner want to be balanced than I want to be a “good” girl. “Balance” is not something I want to live down to. – me If consensus is overrated, I think balance is too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure. – Chris Guillebeau In
View the segment: STOP DOING Lists … Mark Kelley and I talk it up this week.
I’m starting to map out my creativity intentions for 2010. (I prefer not to use the word “plan” – seems so flat. “Intentions” feels fused with both direction and moxy.) Much is swirling in my DNA. Three new books…maybe five. Concepts with roots. Roots growing concepts. Streams of coin, streams of giving… And white space.
Click here to view my Connect with Mark Kelly segment for this week on time management and why we should leave space to meander.
1. What do you do (that gives you joy, because why bother if it doesn’t bring you joy)? 2. Who cares about what you do? 3. How do you get to who cares? That’s it – three essential, monumental questions for every entrepreneur. Whether you’re a hairstylist or a blogger, a lawyer or a widget
Many of you asked me to update you on the outcome from my post: copyright, bullshit, and good manners, whereby I explained the kooky-litigious letter I received from the Strategic Coach, Inc. intellectual property lady, asking me to remove my article that extolled the values of Dan Sullivan‘s Entrepreneurial Time Management system. Well, I heard
I’m obsessed with the essential. “We don’t need it,” “Get rid of it,” and “No thank you,” are guiding mantras ‘round my household. But I’m suspect of time management gurus, especially ones who espouse simplicity as a way of life and who are successful. Success breeds complexity. {Do you really think Tim Ferris, author of
