Archive | Personal Productivity RSS feed for this section
Life Phase Awareness – Keep It Rolling
In graduate school I once taught a Life Span Development class where different phases of life were broken out and categorized. It was interesting to teach about a phase like the “empty nest” phase which is characterized by the quietness of a house when the last child is gone. Because I did not have any [...]
Continue reading...First Mile Mentality (The 1st Mile is Tough)
11. February 2009
Comments Off
I remember when training in college with a friend (who was a triathlete) and the subject of our 6 or 7 mile run came up. He mentioned in passing that it was common knowledge that the first mile is always the hardest. I was training yesterday and thinking about this and hit the mile to [...]
Continue reading...Perception of Movement (Fighting Upstream)
9. February 2009
Comments Off
Have you ever been stuck at a stoplight with your brakes on and the car in front of you begins to roll back into you. The first thing you do is push harder on the brakes to make sure you are not rolling forward. As I was running today with my boys we noticed a [...]
Continue reading...Tyranny of the “Urgent”
8. February 2009
Comments Off
“Tyranny: arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority” What is truly “urgent” in your life? Is urgency defined by the moment? Is it defined by circumstance? All of the above? All too often “urgent” circumstances or events dictate our lives and priorities. Instead of being proactive and seeking our priorities and purpose we [...]
Continue reading...Relational Productivity
4. February 2009
Comments Off
Does productivity make you a stiff/wooden family or does it enable you to experience more in life? The first question to ask is, “What is productivity?” To start off with to be productive you have to produce. To measure what one produces you generally try to measure output. For example: “I was able to accomplish [...]
Continue reading...Domino Tasks
6. January 2009
Comments Off
The begining of each new year represents a “re start” so to speak. We have fresh outlook toward a new year and can put some of the difficult things from the previous year to rest. I always love to look a few years out and then look a few years back at each new years [...]
Continue reading...
26. March 2009
Comments Off