Category: Links of Interest

  • Stop Making Things Easier

    Stop Making Things Easier

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    Don’t just jump to the easy tool or the easy option. Sometimes, oftentimes adding friction to a process can improve it. With friction in place you’re forced to evaluate if the job is worth doing at all. Without friction it’s easy to push tasks off to ‘future you’ and never evaluate them until your lists…

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  • Which tasks will you Decide to Suck at This Week?

    Which tasks will you Decide to Suck at This Week?

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    My secret project is done now because I decided to suck at a bunch of tasks this week until the big one was done. It was easy to decide what to do when I answered this ONE question: “What is the one task this week I can do that will make everything else easy or…

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  • Brent Hammond on Managing Your Energy

    Brent Hammond on Managing Your Energy

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    Today I had the great pleasure of talking to Brent Hammond. I went to one of Brent’s courses in Vancouver a few years ago and when I was thinking of someone that I wanted to talk to about work life and rest, he was on the top of my list. Today Brent and I talk…

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  • Week 5 Update and the importance of rest

    Week 5 Update and the importance of rest

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    We’re in week Five of my final 12 week year and the pace I’ve been running at just shows me that, rest is so important. The first four weeks I got so much more done, but I’m already feeling how hard it is to keep running at a pace that I knew was not sustainable…

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  • Recappingthe 4th week of my 12 week year

    Recappingthe 4th week of my 12 week year

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    Recapping the 4th week of my last 12 Week Year. kids were sick again so I had to change focus bootcamp is on track fine I’ll need to use my blank 6th week to make up some of the product work that hasn’t happened yet The 8 Week Business BootCamp

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  • Despite a Hard Week for Focus, We’re doing good

    Despite a Hard Week for Focus, We’re doing good

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    Today is the third week of my 12 Week Year, and it was a tough one. Most of Wednesday was gone with my wife working and me watching kids. This won’t be normal, since she won’t always be teaching figure skating all day. Other than that, we’re on track. How is your 12 Week Year…

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  • Recapping Week 2 of my last 12 Week Year

    Recapping Week 2 of my last 12 Week Year

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    In this episode 139, I give you a quick recap of week two of my last 12 week year of 2017. In short, it was productive and we’re on track to release everything as needed.

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  • Join me for 12 weeks of Accountability

    Join me for 12 weeks of Accountability

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    We’re doing something a bit different on the podcast for most of the next 12 weeks. I’ve got a number of products to launch and you’re going to join me for 12 weeks to see how it goes and how far we get. Join me with your own 12 weeks of goals.

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  • What Path Are You Building For Yourself

    What Path Are You Building For Yourself

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    There is a great book called Switch that I just finished reading. It uses the metaphor of an Elephant and a Rider to talk about change. The rider can only control the elephant for so long. At some point the elephant can just go where it wants to and the rider is along for the…

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  • What you DO matters, not what you INTEND to do

    What you DO matters, not what you INTEND to do

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    You may say to yourself “I could have built Facebook” or whatever. There are no new ideas under the sun. You may say “I’m going to be a great husband”. That’s a great sentiment, but if you don’t actually do anything about it, then the sentiment doesn’t matter at all. You need to go listen…

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