Have you ever caught yourself working feverishly to solve what your mind had classified as a problem, only to later discover there was no problem at all?
Well, it just happened with me and caused me to waste a lot of time. Since it is fresh on my mind, I figured I would share the problem [...]
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Are You Solving a Non-Problem?
Map Your Way Through the Jungle of Life
This article discusses the use of Mind Maps as an aid for managing your life. Our examples relate to the GTD and/or Covey methods of time management and planning. However, mind maps can be used in a lot of different ways. Quoting from the Wikipedia:
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, [...]
Some Food for Thought
Often when I look at some of the messes that Britney Spears has gotten herself into, I just say to myself “what an idiot!” I look on her situation with contempt and disgust rather than compassion.
But this morning I find myself feeling sorry for her. She did not intend to throw her life away. That [...]
Making a Big Change: a Case Study [How I Retired]
Almost all of us face a decision at some point about whether to make a big change in our lives:
Deciding whether to go to college
To change jobs
To get married
To get a divorce
To retire
and so on …
Sometimes we don’t even know what we want to do, but we know we don’t want to keep doing what [...]
Reviewing Covey’s 4 Quadrants
Today we will talk about today is Covey’s Four Quadrants, which says that the things we do in life can be organized into 4 quadrants:
When I first encountered this, about 20 years ago, it was exactly what I needed. I was living almost exclusively in the Quadrants 1 and 3, and felt stretched to [...]
