Your inbox is not full because you don’t file, it’s full because you don’t make decisions. — When you read an email, you put off deciding what action to take and when to take it. You procrastinate! You waste time re-reading emails and looking for emails. You get distracted from doing real work by the background worry you have missed something important. A solution is to follow…

Inane advice for the modern world or the only way out of the mess? — Society, community, and environment are huge influences on what is possible and not possible for each of us at this moment of our lives. None of us is a self-made person because we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, the privileges of our birth and…

How I discovered I was living in a mood of resentment, recovered a friendship and enriched my life. — As leaders, we inevitably face circumstances that do not turn out as we would like. Sometimes we get disappointed and sometimes we get resentful. We can be particularly challenged when it appears the situation is unfair or underserved and someone else is the cause of the problem. It can be…

Wrap up your week with this 10-minute practice that will have you satisfied and inspired. — Most ambitious goal-oriented senior executives I coach have a regular practice of planning their week. They look back at their week and notice what went wrong and what they still need to do — with a commitment to doing better in the future. …

Twelve ideas and seven books that will help you structure your day and get the most from your time — A good friend asked me: “Do you have any books or principles for improving personal productivity? …

While we may disagree about vaccines and mandates, we still have science to separate fact from fiction and friends to love — Thank goodness the vast majority of our medical profession ignore the mainstream media, the rightwing rags, the leftist loons, the hype, the memes and the magical thinking of the small group who have stolen the term ‘wellness’. Thank goodness they make measurements and collect data.

Procrastination busters I learned from a senior executive — Many of my coaching clients procrastinate completing important written work — despite being senior executives accomplished in their field. Usually, they know what to do about it but have forgotten they know. This week a senior executive (an SES officer in the Australia Public Service) asked me for ideas on…

Know when to hold them, know when to fold them — Sometimes quitting is the right course of action. Sometimes the best move is to retract a promise. I am retracting my promise to write 100 articles for my 100 Days 100 Ways Being Visible project. I don’t do this lightly or without reflection. Retracting a promise or withdrawing one’s word…

Look for signs of that which is hidden — I am a calendar month (31 days) from the end of this project. Today that feels a long time as I seem to have lost direction. …