Forget Habits; Try Rituals
Change is tough. We’re nearing the end of February and I wonder how you’re getting on with your New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps the great plans to exercise more, eat better, work less have all faded into another busy year. Perhaps you set yourself some Big Hairy Audacious Goals for 2012 but they are now just...
What Is The Most Important Thing?
”The mundane details of our life eat us up. Therefore it is important to keep asking ourselves again and again: what is the most important thing?” – Pema Chodron There’s something about this time of year. I don’t know if it’s the dark mornings, the grey days or the cold evenings but I just want...
A Simple Formula for Mindful Productivity
My journey as a productivity geek started in 2008. At the beginning of that year, after months of deliberately avoiding it, I picked up Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek. His advice was simple: choose the work which is going to maximise your results (the 80/20 rule) and do it in the shortest time possible by setting yourself...
Forget New Years Resolutions; Make a To Stop List Instead
January is a time of review and planning, of looking forward and making goals and resolutions for the coming year. But sometimes as well as defining what we are going to do in our business and life, it’s essential to identify those things we are going to stop. I was inspired to put together my...
Start, and the Pressure’s Off
“When the time is on you, start and the pressure will be off.” Yogi Bhajan’s Sutras for the Aquarian Age When I first sat down to write The Business Yogi book in August 2011, the words just would not come. Knowing that August is normally a quiet month of work, I had designated the month...
How to Manage your TEA to be More Effective
Ever have those days when you feel you get nothing done? Sadly, for many of us those days the norm rather than the exception. With the UK in recession and our 24/7 connected lifestyles, many of us are finding that our workload, email and daily information diet is increasing exponentially, while our capacity to deal...
