One goal-achievement tool I just started using is a scoreboard. It’s very easy to create and maintain. You make a page to score your progress towards all your measurable goals for the year. A scoreboard is nothing more than a table with 3 columns. The first column is a list of […]
A big thank you to James Shaw for helping me discover and fix a long-time compatibility issue between WordPress and Newsgator. I’ve known about this problem since shortly after this site launched but hadn’t understood quite how to fix it, since the problem wasn’t directly with the RSS feed itself. Some online feed […]
A difficult challenge in achieving goals is simply remaining aware of them and staying on track. How many times have you set a goal, started working on it with the best of intentions, and then at some future time, you realize it somehow slipped through the cracks?
External influences exert forces to knock us off […]
It appears that I recently messed up a configuration setting that accidentally was deleting all comments instead of holding them in the moderation que. Sorry for that if you tried posting a comment in the past couple days and it didn’t show up. It’s fixed now.
I recently finished reading Stephen Covey’s The 8th Habit, which I enjoyed tremendously. It seemed a bit wordy and redundant in some parts, but I liked the whole-person model that incorporates body, heart, mind, and spirit. Covey applies his concepts mainly to large organizations, but most of the ideas scale well to the […]
The best place to invest your money is in yourself. The rate of return from investing in your own knowledge and skills will be much higher than anything you’ll see from stocks, real estate, or other investments.
In some cases you can even measure the rate of return. Say you buy a book. […]
The 2005 Toastmasters International speech contest season is underway. In the fall I really enjoyed competing in the humorous speech contest, so I was eager to go for it again. Last night I won first place in my club contest (by default since I was the only competitor), so on March 5 I’ll […]
Since I’ve been using David Allen’s Getting Things Done system for a few years now, I’ve made many refinements to it to suit my own style. The most important has been linking the low-level project-action focus of GTD with my own high-level focus on purpose and goals.
My personal GTD system starts with purpose. […]
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