You’ve probably heard of Data Mining which usually applies to using computers to go through masses of data to look for information or patterns that can be useful information or news. It’s likely you have lots of data that you can mine as well in your files that might be information you can use, subjects [...]
On holiday recently I picked up the best seller The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferris which is a companion to his earlier book The Four Hour Work Week. As a consequence I’ve changed what I eat and how I work out. I’ve stuck with the changes for about eight weeks now and feel very [...]
I’ve invented a new way to score my golf game. During a recent game I took mulligans liberally. When I hit a bad shot and thought I could improve the result with better technique I took a do over. At the end of the round I counted my score plus my mulligans. I shot 93 [...]
Tomorrow doesn’t have to be so much of a mystery if you have goals and you’re doing something today to reach those goals. People need a short list of things to do that are Important but Not Urgent. Those activities like relationship building, planning, prevention and visualizing meditation are typically baby steps toward achieving goals. [...]
An inflection point is a time to take a new hard look at goals to see if a new strategy is warranted. So for example, if for people in career transition the most usual option is to simply find another job that replaces the one that was lost. But taking a new look at goals [...]
Golf teachers will tell you that you need to see your swing on video to get the truth of what’s really happening. I think there’s just to much information in play for our brain to process what’s really happening when we do a complicated motor skill like swinging a golf club. Seeing it on video [...]
You may have heard the line “snatch victory from the jaws of defeat”. It something many people try to do when they test limits. They may do it in relationships to see how far they can go or with time management when they see how late they can leave a project. I think people are [...]
