Has it ever taken you far longer than it should to learn or understand something? I know I’ve experienced this on several occasions. Because as I said in my last post (‘Change is not as easy as you make it sound‘) I like to learn things for myself. But 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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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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OK, a really easy one. We all know we should be drinking more water. We also know that what gets measured gets improved. We also tend to find any old excuse not to do stuff (such as drinking enough water) so the trick is to make things really easy. To …
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