Looking death in the face and its effect on purpose
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I’ve been thinking lots about purpose lately as something inside quests for my purpose. Above my desk are four Post-it notes with the following messages: My business will let me spend much of my time traveling and being in the wilderness I need a one-to-many business model and to cut my Internet days down to…
The ways you let communication ruin your life
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The online world is amazing. Every week we get new awesome tools that can make our lives better. From dropping email and using instant communication methods like Slack, to automating parts of our lives with services like Zapier. There is so much to be thankful for and amazed by online. There is also a subtle…
What does a good review and goal planning process look like?
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The weekly review is a key part to an effective productivity system. When I’ve tracked my productivity I’ve seen a 15 – 20% drop in what I get done in a week if I miss my weekly review. Today I’m going to tell you what my quarterly, weekly, and daily review process looks like.
Accomplish more of worth and suffer from less distraction: Deep Work by Cal Newport
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Sure, Slack is great. So is Twitter, and Facebook. I loved it when OSX added iMessage as a core part of their operating system, giving us the ability to send and receive messages. With all of these things added to my life at no point did I realize how lean I was slicing my time.…
What does a good productivity system look like?
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I know you want to find the right tool to get your job done. That one magical thing that fits your mode of working and suddenly you’re getting all your tasks done all the time. In this quest we all end up searching around trying whatever new thing shines the brightest. Each of these options…
GTD, Zeigarnick open loops and Pomodoro
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I know you want to be productive, actually a better word is effective. I say effective and NOT productive because you could productively do work that you shouldn’t have been doing in the first place. Effective is doing well the work that you should be doing. Today I’m going to talk about GTD, Zeigarnik effect,…
Fighting Resistance and Listening to your Muse: The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
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The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is an oft-cited book for any ‘artist’ to read. While Pressfield mainly talks about a more typical artist in the book (painter, sculptor, writer…) I extend this to anyone doing creative work. Even those writing code. In The War of Art, Pressfield attempts to address the invisible force…
If you want your questions with prospects to flow – it takes prep
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This month we talked about a few questioning methods. I hope you did your practicing because without it you’re not going to get better at delving deeper with your clients. The thing is, you can’t just use a single method of questioning — you need to get comfortable enough with the different methods to flow…
Learning to Flow between questioning methods with clients
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We’ve spent the month talking about questions to ask clients and how to ask them. One thing to remember is that you don’t just use one method for the whole call, that’s going to sound wooden. Use all of them and learn to flow between them. Maybe start with the 5 Why’s and then when…
You already have Enough: A look at contentedness with Patrick Rhone author of Enough
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Are you content? I don’t just mean with your earnings or family or relationships, but I mean with everything? Do you feel you’re ‘famous’ enough? Are you happy with the number of pants and shirts you own? Alternatively, are you just waiting for the next released T-shirt from whatever your favourite band is? Are you…
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