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LinkedIn Locked and Loaded

I wrote last month about plans to update my LinkedIn profile.
I just spent a couple of hours doing that - following the guidelines laid down by Krishna De.
In addition to a contact-focussed ’summary’ section, I’ve also added connection request guidelines, my blog’s feed and some Amazon book recommendations - 2 new ‘widget’ apps released by [...]

(Career) Management Tips And The 1-3-6 Exercise

I recently discovered the “management wisdom” work of Nick McCormick and am looking forward to reading his book, “Lead Well and Prosper”.
In the meantime I checked out Nick’s interesting 6 minute management tips podcast with Dan Coughlin, intriguingly titled “The 1-3-6-Exercise“.
And although the focus of Nick’s site is on management, after listening I was struck [...]

Personal Productivity By Doing One Thing At a Time

Occasionally my coaching clients have a problem with staying on task.

Oh, they have goals, plans and even the best of intentions but alas, there’s always some crazy, unexpected interruption that derails their progress.
And, naturally enough, they want me to help.
(Well, if truth be told, I too have similar problems from time to time - and [...]

Are Mind Maps Effective Coaching Tools?

I’ve been interested in mind maps since experimenting with them as a teacher in the early 1980s.
Of course it was pencil and paper back then - which made editing coloured maps a real pain.
Still, there remains something uniquely creative about the low-tech way and I continue to use it for my own impromptu idea sessions.
Nowadays [...]

Self Coaching For Career And Life Change

OK, time for an update on my “invisible target” post.
Thanks to Geoff Roberston over at total self improvement for his vote. I’d dropped the ball on this and forgotten to close comments on 23 February.
Lucky I didn’t!
So the invisible target on my desk now has something to visualize around - and to keep taking [...]

The 5 Minute Crush

For the past 10 months my weekday morning routine kicked off with a leisurely breakfast around 8am, followed by a walk in the park with Kuri.
Not so Monday 18th February.
On that morning I wrote the outline of this post while riding the 8:11am train to my 6 month consulting IT gig.
Or rather, it was 8:11am [...]

Time Choices

There were 3 questions I left you with from this post on time management.
Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Q1- What’s on your DoTO list right now?
A1- Setup Al Secunda interview schedule.
Q2- What’s your current IHTD project?
A2- Create an inventory of the software I’ve bought in last 3 years.
Q3- What is your Project1?
A3- Create next info [...]

Invisible Target

There’s a plastic stand on my desk, just to the left of my monitor, which can hold 5 CDs.
That’s originally what I bought it for.
But after my “giving up” session I had no need for this one and was thinking of recycling it too.
Then the thought came to me that my goal of “publishing 6 [...]

Productivity and Workflow Timers

One of the dangerous habits in growing this new online business is that there’s a very strong survival instinct to keep on working… and working… and working. In fact, to work way more than I ever did in any corporate career role.
(Note to myself: I can mentally hear a few of my mentors call me [...]