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That’s Un Oeuf! The Revolutionary Time Management Technique
I have written previously about the Pomodoro technique. After a lot of research and some earnest experimentation myself, I can now offer a more scientifically validated time management technique which anyone can easily implement. I have named this revolutionary system ‘That’s Un Oeuf!’ (TM). The ‘That’s Un Oeuf!’ system is guaranteed to boost your productivity [...]
Mindsight
Mindfulness is more than a passing fad. It is at the cutting edge of scientific research into anxiety, stress, depression, OCD, pain management, work performance and resilience. Dan Siegel is at the forefront of this research and if you don’t have time to read his excellent Mindsight, this is a useful alternative. I think [...]
The Desert and the Dune
I’ve just been in the UAE doing some leadership training right in the middle of the Liwa Desert. Here are some photos. The final photo shows one of the enormous dunes outside the hotel…. (cont’d below). At sunset, people would climb up the dune and sit and watch the sun set from the top [...]
Hemingway – The Sun Always Rises
“We stare at our computer screens cataloguing our lives unaware that every important decisions has been taken by one goal: the avoidance of pain. We look out of the airplane window reviewing our belief system and realise that it’s an anti-belief system, a rejection of our values. How did I get here? We don’t see [...]
Career Change 2011 – Step 2: Who Are You?
The question of who ‘you’ are is a tricky one. After all, there is no stable ‘you’, only a collection of relatively stable skills, traits, preferences abilities and experiences which are interpreted by our minds to be ‘me’ or ‘I’. Run that by me again… There is no ‘me’? If you doubt that the idea [...]
Hodgson – A Failure Not Of Management But Of Meaning
A friend of mine asked me what I thought of Liverpool’s sacking of Roy Hodgson. My first instinct was feeling for sorry for a patently decent man who no doubt tried hard to give the club what it really needs: direction and leadership. The exact question was whether Hodgson was a victim of the “grass [...]
Your Career Change in 2011 – Step 1: Facing the Present
January is my busiest month for career change clients. So many of us reappraise where we are heading in life at the turnb of the year. And frequently, we don’t like the answer. So where to start? At the risk of wearing out an already tired cliche, career change is a journey. And any journey [...]
Your Career Change in 2011
Imagine you were tired of your current house so you decide that 2011 should be the year where you move. The first thing you might do is work out a budget – a price which you feel you can afford. The second thing you might do is draw up a list of criteria which would [...]
More Advice on Behaviour Change
This is good and complements my previous post very well: Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change View more presentations from Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford. RSS 2.0: http://bloomblogrob.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss