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Published in Better Creativity

·May 18, 2021

The Two Kinds of Work Required to Craft a Well-Lived Life

What I’ve Learnt About The Tension Between Creativity and Good Organisation What Is The Well-Lived Life? This is how I define a Well-Lived Life. Your definition will of course be different. 1. You are fulfilled with no more than your fair share of disappointments. 2. You are happy, experiencing many more sunlit uplands than dark valleys. 3…

Personal Growth

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The Two Kinds of Work Required to Craft a Well-Lived Life
The Two Kinds of Work Required to Craft a Well-Lived Life
Personal Growth

5 min read


Published in Better Creativity

·May 17, 2021

How to Manage What Gets Into Your Personal Knowledge System

Exploring the Interface between Good Organisation and Creativity — Not everything you discover is worth knowing. Right? My previous attempts at creating a Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS) foundered because I was particularly prone to the Collector’s Fallacy. It’s just too easy to collect information by clipping material from the many different digital streams that tickle your consciousness.

Personal Growth

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How to Manage What Gets Into Your Personal Knowledge System
How to Manage What Gets Into Your Personal Knowledge System
Personal Growth

5 min read


Oct 15, 2019

What Are The Best Time Management Tools?

Review of sixty top time management apps and software by category — You want to make the best use of your time. You reckon technology can help you. But where do you start? Categories Meeting and Video Chat Apps Team Chat Apps Team Project Management Apps Task Manager Apps File Sharing Apps Social Media Management Email Management Distraction Managers Automation MindMapping Backup Security …

Productivity

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What Are The Best Time Management Tools?
What Are The Best Time Management Tools?
Productivity

25 min read


Oct 13, 2019

Why Doing The Right Thing Makes You A Better Leader

How one man’s integrity outlasted his fiercest critics — In September 1961, Pat Quinlan, then aged 42 and Commandant of ‘A’ Company of the 35th Irish Battalion, looked out on the small mining town of Jadotville in the Congo. He and the 156 men under his command were part of a U.N. peace-keeping mission. The U.N. had tasked Quinlan…

Leadership

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Why Doing The Right Thing Will Make You A Better Leader
Why Doing The Right Thing Will Make You A Better Leader
Leadership

4 min read


Oct 12, 2019

Why Innovation Could Make You A Better Writer

How thinking out of the box unlock’s your story’s gold — It was while at lunch on the second day of my visit to Namibia that I had the revelation. It changed the way I think and made me a more determined and resourceful writer. Let’s back up a moment, a little context. I was visiting Namibia as a member of…

Writing

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Why Innovation Will Make You A Better Writer
Why Innovation Will Make You A Better Writer
Writing

4 min read


Oct 10, 2019

How To Win Your War With Time Like Expert Medics

What top doctors can teach us about managing time There are only three events in a man’s life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. — Jean de La Bruyère Doctors are familiar with dilemmas. In medicine…

Health

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How To Win Your War With Time Like Expert Medics
How To Win Your War With Time Like Expert Medics
Health

8 min read


Oct 9, 2019

How To Come Out On Top Of Your Worst-Case Scenario

Why you need to be ready when disaster strikes — Two workmen move cautiously into the nuclear silo containing a Titan II rocket. It is 1980 and the men are engaged on a routine maintenance exercise. The Titan II’s warhead contains more explosive power than all the bombs dropped during the second world war. One of the men has forgotten…

Marketing

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How To Come Out On Top Of Any Worst-Case Scenario
How To Come Out On Top Of Any Worst-Case Scenario
Marketing

5 min read


Oct 8, 2019

How To Write A Powerful Personal Leadership Manifesto

Why you need to clarify your leadership purpose — What do you stand for? What would you die in a ditch to protect? How will you know if it’s time for you to go? Do you know your answer to these questions? If you’re a leader, or someone who aspires to be a leader, I’ve learnt that having a…

Leadership

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How To Write A Powerful Personal Leadership Manifesto
How To Write A Powerful Personal Leadership Manifesto
Leadership

6 min read


Oct 7, 2019

5 Time Management Tips That Will Set You Up For For Success

Short, sharp techniques for optimising your day — Sometimes you haven’t got time to mess about. You just need the answer right away. So, here are 5 of the best time management tips for success. Use them to to power through your day. 1. Batch Things Up To really get a motor on you need to learn how to batch things up…

Productivity

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5 Time Management Tips That Will Set You Up For For Success
5 Time Management Tips That Will Set You Up For For Success
Productivity

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Published in Better Marketing

·Oct 7, 2019

Become a Well-Organised Marketer

A four-phase plan for managing your distractions and making time for deliberate practice — When Malcolm Gladwell published “Outliers”, one of the most interesting suggestions he made was the theory that to achieve excellence in a field, you must spend 10,000 hours practicing your chosen topic. The maths suggest if you work on something for 40 hours a week, it will take you five…

Productivity

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Become a Well-Organised Marketer
Become a Well-Organised Marketer
Productivity

6 min read

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