How to be more productive: the biggest (counter-intuitive) lesson I learned this year that applies to productivity gains. This is for anyone who wants to be fitter and faster at work, at home, in the gym…
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What do you do when what you want isn’t on the table? When you have to make a decision—maybe you’re up against time—and it looks like there is something to be ‘figured-out’? How do we solve this? And what if the weight of the decisions is a signal to step back, to pause, and to take a different approach? I know enough to know decisions don’t get ‘figured out’ by me worrying over them. Click through to read more…
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When we’re playing with something ‘real’, something important, then it can be much harder to see solutions when things don’t go to plan. What’s the way through this? And is there a perspective other than seeing something as ‘high stakes’ or ‘low stakes’?
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It can feel as if we have to solve all our present and future problems and carry around those solutions ‘just in case’, which can be a stressful way to live and work. But what if life was much more like the little gadget that I carry around that let’s me log into my bank account? What if I always had access to answers whenever I needed them…
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What’s the difference between a simple question that we google or that we ask a friend and move on, and those thorny questions that we chew around in our head for a long time, ask people for advice on, and yet never move forward? Let’s look at a practical solution…
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We’re so used to being bombarded with the ‘right’ way to do things (eat, sleep, exercise, work, parent, teach…) that we think the solution is always to look for more information. What if there was an easier way? And a more effective way…?
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What does it take to live life happy? It takes seeing where problems are coming from and going upstream—dissolving them before they turn into something toxic. Let’s see how…
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“I feel like an imposter!” said my client, and that one phrase took us into a deep dive on comparison-itis, why we do it and what to do instead. (oh yes, we took a side-step with some puppy stories ;-)). Enjoy.
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It looks like much of development and innovation is to find a great solution and then scale it, roll it out to other areas, other countries, other contexts. But what if we’re missing something in this model? What if we’re missing the very thing that makes that first solution so brilliant?
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When we give to others, when we share our riches with those less well-off, what are we really giving? Is it about the money? Yes, to a degree, but perhaps there’s also another way to look at this so that we can all make a larger difference in everyday ways…
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Sometimes things don’t go the way we want, and it doesn’t bother us. And sometimes it does. A lot! Here’s why that happens and what we can do about it…
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When we think we need to figure out a solution to a problem, it looks like there’s a lot on ‘us’. But when we see that there are infinite levels of solutions and we simply need to widen our vision, we see problems in an entirely different way…
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So often it looks as if life is a series of either / or choices. I can do X or I can do Y. I know for me, binary choices make me feel dissatisfied with life—when I have fixed choices, and neither seem that appealing, I feel limited. Constricted. But what else is there? Read on and find out!
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The more you know, the more you’re likely to be successful, right? Well what if that wasn’t right? What if there was something else driving success? Read on to find out more…
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When we want something, we keep on trying, and trying, and trying. We know it’s there, if only we could reach it. But what if it isn’t there at all? What if it’s in another direction? And how do you get a tap on the shoulder to point you in the right direction?
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