A friend back in college once told me that he doesn’t measure his time in terms of minutes or hours but with pesos. I thought he was just drunk as we often were in college. Years later, when I started accepting freelance projects, I realized how important it is to put a dollar amount on [...]
Categories: Getting Things Done
Tagged: Business, Getting Things Done
Do you check your email every 10 minutes?
Do you read everything in your RSS feeds and Twitter streams until your brain hurts?
Is your Facebook account always open?
Do you have hundreds of unread emails?
Is your browser’s bookmarks a mess?
If you answered yes to all of them then you better start making changes to your online behavior because frankly, you’re not [...]
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#7 The creation of “boss rules”
The staff has developed guidelines for dealing with you and quietly passes them to new employees. “Never suggest that there might be another way of doing something,” they might say. Or “Act self-deprecating so he doesn’t feel threatened.”
#6 Employees start sucking up
You have one or two fanatical acolytes. Yes, [...]
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Ask ‘Why?’ constantly. All creativity stems from questioning why things are the way they are. The more everyday obvious a thing is, the more it needs to be questioned.
Always be suspicious when people say, ‘It stands to reason’. Human progress has come from those who had the courage to challenge the generally held view.
When working [...]
Categories: Creativity Hacks
Tagged: Getting Things Done, motivation
The short answer: No.
Einstein is a genius. Just like Newton, da Vinci, and Mozart, he belongs to a small group that very few of us will ever be part of. This is not an insult to your capacity but I’m just stating a simple truth – geniuses are born, not made.
However, you share one characteristic [...]
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Tagged: Getting Things Done