Allow Your Business To Grow By Finding Your Flow
On this first Sunday evening of December 2011, I’m asking myself how I can start doing more of what I’m good at and stop doing all the other stuff I feel I need to do… I get into my flow when I do what I love doing and what I know I do well; and [...]
Imagine getting five important tasks done every day, instead of just your usual four! Well, you can achieve this incredible increase in productivity by taking just one simple step — switch off your message-reminders! You can get into your flow and increase your productivity with 17% by removing distractions such as new inbox alerts on [...]
Happiness is a workplace issue and should be firmly entrenched in all management strategies for productivity. Happiness and life satisfaction, observes Ray Williams of Success IQ University in Psychology Today, is increasingly measured by economists and psychologists, and should no longer be seen as an abstract concept. So why should we be focussing on how [...]
“Focus your undivided attention on a task during an uninterrupted block of time.” This is today’s “attention management” tip for productivity in your work, from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, as explained in his book Good Business – Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning. On average it takes you between 15 minutes and an hour to complete [...]
I’m not sure if it is just my selection of reading material, but recently I noticed that just about every entrepreneurial blog post or business book I read includes reference to the benefits to clarify the purpose of your business and how you can get your team to perform better by showing how their work [...]
Just read this thought-provoking story by Gerrit Cloete of Productivity Pit Stop. Here is an extract: [quote]“…then he asked me: “Where do you stay now?”“Just up here in High Cape – and you?”“It depends on the weather”, he says.“If it is warm I sleep on the sidewalk or maybe under the bridge. If it windy [...]
Compile your own handbook to describe the customised steps you should take to achieve the results you’ve been dreaming about – not only for your business, but also for yourself. It’s not only cheaper than doing an MBA, but also much quicker and customised for you! The advice below by Christoff Oosthuysen to compile your [...]
In our Flow Marketing planning process we use a one-page plan. A bit like what Toyota does with their A3 approach. You should ask yourself how you can simplify your plans and learn from these visual and to-the-point planning approaches! How useful is your business plan, or operational plan, or marketing plan? How much does [...]
You already have inside of you what you need to achieve your most important goals. So what is keeping you back? You need: – Faith in yourself and others; – Fire in your commitment and actions; and – Focus in what you choose to pay attention to. These are the three elements Alan Fine says [...]
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