Aligning Action with Attention: Fixing the Importance Imbalance that keeps us feeling busy

April 4, 2011
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If something is important enough to make you feel harried, stressed, anxious, distracted, unsettled (etc. etc.), shouldn’t it also be important enough for you to make time and space to properly act on it? The logical answer is yes, but part of what keeps us caught in the cycle of busy-ness is that we usually [...]

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Preventing The Spread Of Busy-ness

March 21, 2011
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Have you ever noticed that when you’re around a chronically busy person, someone who’s constantly flying by the seat of their pants, always in a rush, perpetually acting like they’re two steps behind where they need to be… you feel that way too? Busy is contagious. We are wired to pick up on stress signals [...]

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Remembering The Now

March 16, 2011
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It’s so easy to lose The Now. What happened yesterday leaves us feeling behind, so we spend time catching up to a goal we project into tomorrow. Or we congratulate ourselves over yesterday’s progress until we forget that today even matters. We fret over tomorrow. About what will be expected from us, about how we [...]

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Hurry Up And Feel Busy: The connection between hurrying and busy-ness

March 14, 2011
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When we feel busy, our reaction is often to hurry. We have a lot to do, so we try to speed up accordingly. We try to move faster, think quicker, get stuff done more rapidly. Interestingly, the converse is true too: when we hurry, we tend to feel busy. We’re running around, we’re trying to [...]

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Friday Menagerie: Collection #27

March 11, 2011
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This week’s Menagerie spotlights: ★ Links from Kate Genet, Les McKeown, Amir Khella, Desiree Adaway, Goddess Leonie, Wrinklerella & Lisa Baldwin ★ Tweets from Willie Jackson, Frank Rimalovski, Crys Williams, Rachel W. Cole, Guillaume Lebleu, Henri Junttila & Jolie Guillebeau ★ Tunes from Adele & Youth Group Please to enjoy! Linking In The Deep Routine [...]

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My Mom’s 6 Secrets For Doing Big, Overwhelming, Stuck-Inducing Projects

March 7, 2011
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After moving into my house, there were a lot of boxes to unpack. The sheer number of boxes — not to mention the quantity of stuff inside the boxes — was daunting. Day after day, I’d resolve to unpack the boxes. And day after day, I’d sort of wander around amidst the stacks, kind of [...]

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Surviving Your Serengeti: Book Review

March 2, 2011
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Stefan Swanepoel offers a unique look at seven foundational business skills, set against the backdrop of the Serengeti with its inhabitants as metaphors and examples of each skill. His book is Surviving Your Serengeti: 7 Skills to Master Business and Life. The book is written as a fable, and it’s a fast, easy read. The [...]

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Doing It My Way: Where Doing It Right, Doing It Wrong and Frank Sinatra Meet

February 14, 2011
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Some of my best work happens before I know what I’m doing. Since I don’t know the “supposed tos,” I am free to be natural, enthusiastic, thoroughly me, listening to and acting from gut instinct. As I start picking up all of the Rules and Shoulds and Oughtas, I also start picking up more and [...]

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