I’m a planner. If I’m going on a trip, I want the hotel or B&B booked well ahead of time. If I’m giving a talk or workshop, I want my prep done early. I don’t understand how people build their presentations while on the plane to deliver it. I plan my weeks and I plan READ MORE
Category: Productivity
Better Me Podcast Launched
This will be a brief post, but one that I’m very excited about. The Better Me Podcast is now live. There are currently two episodes up for your listening pleasure, with more on the way. I want to thank Stephen Hurley and the rest of the team at voicEd Radio for hosting and all of READ MORE
My Quest For The ‘Right’ Planner Revisited
A recent post was about the results I’d gotten from telling people that I wanted to launch a podcast. It’s obviously not just enough to tell people about my goals. I can’t expect them to do the rest, I have to take action and to do that I need to focus on what those actions READ MORE
Talking About Dreams Pays Off
In a post last year I mentioned launching a podcast, which, if you follow this site carefully, you may have noticed hasn’t happened. Well, this particular goal is finally coming to fruition and you should be able to listen to me and guests within a couple of months. Let me tell you about my journey to READ MORE
Warming Up Before Running, or Singing, or Thinking Deeply
It’s been very cold here for the past week. It’s been snot freezing cold. Even though we have central heat, some rooms in our house, including our master bedroom, never seem particularly warm. Our basement, where our gym is, is another such space, which is why I take warming up before running on the treadmill READ MORE
Experimenting to End 2019
In the past couple of weeks I’ve obtained a couple of, well let’s say nifty things that I’m going to try out to help me end 2019 and start 2020 on the right foot. While in Kananaskis, Alberta to give a half day workshop a couple of weeks ago I made an impulse purchase in READ MORE
Can You Pat Your Head While Rubbing Your Tummy Walking On Fresh Ice?
I’m currently reading Chris Bailey’s book Hyperfocus: How to manage your attention in a world of distraction. In the book Bailey talks about “attentional space”, also known as your working memory. We have a limited amount of this at one time, which means that there is a limit to what we can give our attention READ MORE
A Social Media Free Weekend
On Friday I listened to the first episode of Chris Bailey’s podcast, which just happens to be called Becoming Better, and he was interviewing Georgetown Professor Cal Newport about the lure of social media and just how much of our time and energy is spent scrolling instead of living. Coincidentally I happened to have some READ MORE
Practice, Fail, Learn, Repeat
My wife is an amazing cook. I am an acceptable cook. The process of me learning to cook has taken 20 plus years and is ongoing. I make very good eggs – both fried and scrambled. My wife and daughter actually praise my scrambled eggs. I do a slow cook, stirring them frequently and usually READ MORE
Have An Idea? Act On It.
Last week I launched the Better Me newsletter (you know you want to subscribe). I’d been kicking the idea around and decided it was time to act. I took a look bit of time looking into tools for doing this and then built my template, added content and sent it out last Thursday. I felt READ MORE
