Archives for the 'Inspiration' Category
Your Sense of Accomplishment [Productivity in Context]
Today’s post is from Kris Rowlands at Words Within:
It’s tough. It’s hard to be able to keep focused on your goals, Getting Things Done, and feel a sense of accomplishment. If anyone tells you otherwise, they have not walked in your shoes.
Goals are good things to have: they keep us focused, give us something to [...]
2 Men, 2 Perspectives [Productivity in Context]
I keep running into this story in my research lately, so I thought it must be important enough to share with you. I do not know the original source, it’s all over the place.
A life half-full, or half-empty?
The businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just [...]
on writing [Creativityist]
Reading On Writing feels like I just sat down for a beer with Stephen King and had a conversation about writing. I didn’t say much. I just listened as he unloaded his heart, experience, and knowledge right off the page. Of course, he doesn’t seem to drink beer anymore, and I never acquired a taste [...]
Learn Creativity via Dangerous Activities [Productivity in Context]
Here is another fantastic TED talk:
Gever Tulley writes the best Twitters: Just landed my paraglider in an empty field behind Santa 8arbara. … Making amazing tshirts with a laser cutter at the maker faire in austin. … Washing fruit, putting sheets on bunkbeds, and grinding up aluminum foil in a cheap blender … Updating the [...]
The Richness of Human Capacity [Productivity in Context]
I can’t believe I just found this:
Why don’t we get the best out of people? Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless minds and bodies — far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity — are ignored or even stigmatized, [...]
How To Get Unstuck [How to be an Original]
You’re faced with a situation, a problem of some sort that requires your attention to solve. You’ve worked on it a lot, but now you’re stuck. You’ve looked at it endlessly, played with it, yelled at it, growled at it, even punched and kicked it. But it’s not working. You’re stuck. Know the feeling?
Other people [...]
Escape from Corporate America - Book Review [Productivity in Context]
“Escape from Corporate America” by Pamela Skillings is the first truly practical, and eminently readable, book about career-change that I have found. Written in a down-to-earth style, there is also a thread of humor woven through every chapter.
Pamela Skillings is an author, journalist, and entrepreneur who spent twelve years working as a marketing executive for [...]
Don’t Know if this is True… [Productivity in Context]
If I Had My Life to Live Over
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have talked less and [...]
Oblique Strategy [Productivity in Context]
I am actually writing this on Tuesday evening, getting ready for the big trip to SOBCon. Please bear with me.
This week’s Oblique Strategy:
Amplify the mistakes.
Share your impressions of this strategy in the Comments. Share your thoughts on the future in the Forum.
Original post here: Stephen
oneword [Creativityist]
A few days ago, I stumbled on oneword. Here’s a description of the site:
simple. you’ll see one word at the top of the following page.
you have sixty seconds to write about it.
as soon as you click ‘go’ the page will load with the cursor in place.
don’t think. just write.
Sometimes, when in a rut, it helps [...]