“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” – Roy. E. Disney Values are things that motivate us, reflecting our sense of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and our preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes. Values, therefore tend to influence our attitudes and behavior. For example: if …
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These posts I’m calling ‘Efficiency Hacks’ are very much like tiny decisions… They follow the same principle. They’re very quick and very easy to write, and intended to put an idea across as quickly as possible, no frills but great high impact concepts. That’s the idea anyway. They don’t sit …
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“Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.” ~ H Jackson Brown, Jr For most people, work takes up a significant chunk of their lives. OK, so it may not literally be half of your life in terms of the working hours you are actually …
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Keep a resources master for all work you’re doing. For example, if you are in a business where you need to prepare lots of slide-based presentations, keep a separate document in which you store all of the useful graphics, symbols, contents page/agenda, title formats, diagrams etc etc, even animations which …
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Last week I introduced the first efficiency hack: reclaim your downtime. As I said, this has been huge for me. To take that even further, combine it with this. This hack is about consuming information faster (whether you’re reclaiming your downtime or for any other time too). I have heard …
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This has been HUGE for me. Huge huge huge. Do you drive a car? Walk a dog? Commute to work? What are you doing during this time? These activities are what I’m talking about when I say downtime. If you drive the car and don’t care too much about listening …
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