Meetings can be a colossal waste of time especially in a field that harbors speculative conversations like Business Development. When appropriate, one practice I use to maximize meeting efficiency is to email the meeting attendee(s) an agenda 2-3 hours prior to the meeting. These emails typically contain the meeting objective, an outline of what [...]
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The Problem With To-Do Lists
To Do Lists are great for making you feel productive, but they’re not always an effective way to accomplish your goals or lead your best life…at least the way that I was approaching them. Until about 2 weeks ago, I always approached to do lists in a linear fashion. I’d prioritize my list by putting [...]
Conserving Energy and Why I Have A Pushup Alarm Clock
This post originally appeared on LessDoing, a project of Ari Meisel, an entrepreneur and productivity geek who decided to share his knowledge of and experiments in efficiency. Ari is an Achievement Architect, helping individuals become more effective at everything. At SinglePlatform we do pushups on the hour every hour. I love this practice and the benefits extend beyond [...]
There’s No App for That?
Apps make our lives easier…but they aren’t going to actually do the heavy lifting for us. One of the attendees of my last skillshare class expressed some disappointment after I described how I manage my network. My personal CRM methodology is built on Google Docs. Specifically, I use a spreadsheet to keep track of the last time [...]
How to Be A Better Thinker
I’m not sure if you can become smarter, but I think there are things we can do to be more effective thinkers. Here are things that have enriched my thinking ability in my own life: Value thinking and Give Yourself Permission To Do So: I write about this a lot, but the pervasiveness of smartphones, [...]
I Lost Sight Of My Life Goal
A few months ago I had the painful realization that I had lost sight of my primary life goal in the process of trying to achieve it. I have a lot of life goals, but the most important one to me is to build something that benefits the less fortunate at a grand scale. [...]
The War on Mobile Stimulation
I love the internet. It solves many of the world’s problems and enhances the lives of countless people. What’s even more awesome is it’s now in the palm of my hand. But as great as the mobile web is, I think there has been some less than beneficial side effects on human behavior. Mainly, the [...]
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