[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In my professional career I have been involved in extremely complex jobs, starting when I was a research scientist for Raytheon, to running a consulting business, to chief technologist in a fortune 50 company, then as an international technology management consultant, and now as an online entrepreneur. The demands on my time and the complexity […]
Category Archives: Productivity
Getting good change done
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If 100 people came to me today and asked, Hey Dude, what is the most impactful habit that I could develop starting today, which habit will be the right starting place from which to build all other habits? Which habit is going to make my life easier and more productive, which habit is going to […]
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Achieving goals is not a matter of having “discipline”. It’s a matter of motivating yourself, and keeping your focus on your goal. Follow these tips and you should have the motivation and focus you need. Chart Your Progress. Recently I posted about 5 Productivity Systems and one of the systems was called the Seinfeld System. It’s […]
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For the past 30 years I have studied the decision making process to try to find shortcuts that doesn’t sacrifice the quality of the decision yet produces a positive result. You know, do less, get more. Everyone is looking for shortcuts, or to get lucky. When I play pool and my opponent lucks the game-winning […]
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is therefore not an act, but a habit – Aristotle I have struggled with certain things in my life, and other things seemed natural. The things I struggled with I couldn’t figure out. Why could I be so proficient at some things and a bumbling fool with […]
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You started a new habit, got distracted and broke the chain, How duo you restart? Don’t worry, for people new to creating habits it’s a common occurrence, but you need to break that BAD habit NOW. The best way is to restart the habit chain immediately! The sooner the better. Don’t worry about failure, forget […]
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The very first thing you need under your belt before you can become a top performer, in what ever field you work, a sport or personal endeavor, is how to create good habits. Without the ability to create good habits and having good habits, you are flying blind. Top performers are there because they’ve already […]
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Before I get to describing the Good Change Done system (GCD) that this website is all about, let’s look at some of the most famous productivity systems out there. Tops on that list is probably Getting Things Done (GTD). It is by far the most famous, so we’ll look at that and a few others […]
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Leonardo DaVinci I decided to take some of the best concepts from some of the best productivity systems ever invented, including, David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Successful People, add some other useful concepts like Agile, and distill them into a very simple and […]
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The title I wanted for this blog was going to be kaizen-zumi, which means getting good change done, the Japanese literal translation is improvement finished. This encapsulates the principle problem with most people’s lack of productivity, not that they have too many things to do, but rather the things they take on are never really […]
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