David Allen is best known for his book Getting Things Done.  His book has been, over the last decade, the most popular time and productivity management book and process on earth. The quotation below applies to managing our time, but goes much deeper, if you allow it to.  I hope today’s questions and action steps

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One of the first and most influential inspirational speakers I learned of and learned from was Earl Nightingale. Today I reread one of his profound quotations . . . “We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve

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Flashback to my kidhood  . . .  I’ve just made some error or mistake, and I am being made aware of that error by one of my parents.  At the end of the conversation, they ask me . . . Did you learn your lesson? I’m guessing that my flashback is your flashback too –

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Today’s Resource Recommendation is Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen If you have read Jim’s previous mega-bestsellers, Built to Last and Good to Great, you know the formula.  If haven’t, know that the premise for this book was reached through extensive research. The research in this book is so extensive (a

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Tom woke up Halloween morning and mentally previewed the day ahead. He didn’t have to think much to know it was going to be a long one. A full day of leadership training followed immediately by the costume party his wife was dragging him to. The only good thing about the day that he could

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Typically in these weekly “powerquotes” posts I feature a quotation from a famous, or at least known person.   Today that isn’t the case. I don’t know Dan Ivey, though I found his LinkedIn profile just now.  His quote came from a Fast Company email in my quotation archives from 2004.  I’m pleased to share it

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If your Mom was like mine when you were a kid and had to make a tough decision, like who to invite to your birthday sleepover, she told you to sleep on it and decide in the morning. When President Barack Obama was considering what action to take before the capture of Osama bin Laden,

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Starting from the time we have enough of a vocabulary to string together two sentences, we start telling stories — and even before that, we are entranced by them. The poet Mariel Rukeyser wrote “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” While that isn’t literally true, we all recognize the wisdom in the thought.

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This week’s Resource Recommendation is Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli. If you ever get frustrated by meetings, feel like the meetings you go to are too long, too chaotic, and not a valuable, productive use of your time, this book is for you. This book makes a short point; it proceeds

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