How do you build a bicycle lane on busy city streets?If you ask someone at the local council how to build a bicycle lane on a busy street, the answer is usually quite complicated. There will be talk of consultations, resource consents, engineering reports and budgets. Eventually, after years of planning and several million dollars, […]
Time Management Strategies and Tactics: Archives—Psychotactics
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The Art of Less: Why the Best Professionals Work with a Smaller Palette
Imagine someone handed you a computer from 1994 with the latest version of Photoshop on it. Would you take it? The illustrator Bob Staake definitely wouldn’t — and not because he can’t use the software. He already has a perfectly good computer running Photoshop 3.0, and he has no intention of changing that. Thirty years […]
How To Consistently Save Time On E-mail (And Other Digital Communication)
(You can listen to the audio of the article too. Click here: How to speed up answering e-mail) Here’s how I leave messages on an answer phone. Hi, this is Sean. Full stop. I wanted to let you know that we might meet tomorrow, comma, and then meet again next week, em dash, but only […]
How To Become Smarter By Utilising The “Database Concept”
Imagine there are two computers. One computer is a standalone connected to nothing but the electrical supply. The second one is connected to a network of computers. Which of the two is likely to be more useful to you? A similar concept applies to learning. People with a greater database are almost always seen as […]
Burnout: Why Friends And Family Are More Likely To Be Early Warning Systems To Avoid Overwork
“Hard work” has never been considered a problem. If anything, we’re all told to work hard. How do you know when you’ve crossed the line from hard work to overwork? Surprisingly, the answer doesn’t lie within ourselves. Here’s how to use your family as an early warning system of burnout. Right click to save this […]
How To Get Free Of Your Phone Addiction Without Software
It’s clearly impossible to avoid using a phone. Which is why software seems to come to the rescue. However, the way to avoid the phone (at least once a week) is simpler than you’d think. What’s more, the habit grows. You start avoiding the phone more than you’d expect. How is it all done? Let’s […]
How Do You Manage Everything? – Part 1
Podcasts, membership site, cartoons, photography, Whatsapp—the list goes on and on. And it’s puzzling to clients how I (Sean) manage so much. Well, there are bound to be some principles. Here are just four of them, and we cover two of them in this first episode. Right click to save this episode. Principle 1: Getting […]
The Concept Of Bandwidth: How To Control The “Uncontrollable” Of Chaos
On any given day we will have some amount of chaos. And someday the chaos is just looking outside the door, but other days it forces its way through with an intensity that’s hard to control. It seems like we are always juggling too many things, but there is a method where we can manage […]
How Planning Gets Quickly Derailed (When You Don’t Have A Stop-Doing List)
At the start of the year, it’s almost natural to want to wipe the slate clean and start doing something new. We create goals, we set deadlines and hope like crazy that things will work out well. The part we consistently forget is the “stop-doing” bit. The very same issues that have been a pain […]
The Paradox of Motivation and Burnout (And Where To Draw the Line)
Some days, you can’t get yourself motivated. Yet on other days, you’re working so hard that you’re frying up much too quickly. How do you keep a balance between getting yourself motivated and still not tipping over to the other side? Right click below to save this episode. Re-release: The Paradox of Motivation and Burnout […]
