The Not to Do List for Business Owners

‘The Not to Do List’ is an idea I remember hearing about in an interview with Timothy Ferriss who wrote The 4 Hour Work Week.

‘The Not to Do List’ is a list you keep beside your daily ‘To Do’ list to help you keep focused. The list contains actions that you want to avoid

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What is the Most Effective use of my time?

the power of questions

How do I improve my health?

How can I find peace of mind?

How do I simplify healthy eating habits?

How do I become debt free?

All of these and more are great questions and questions I believe are one of

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Improve Your Life: How to use NLP to make you feel wonderful

Personal Development

I believe personal development is a life long experience and I enjoy each and every new discovery. Two weeks ago I discovered something I have been looking for over the last few years to help nourish my mind and body more

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What is the Best Time to Review a To Do List?

Dolomites, Italy

Did you ever wish you had planned ahead for a difficult day? – photo by D. Hennessey

There has been days when I have woke up in the morning and wondered ‘Okay, what do I need to get done today?’ When I have

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The Not to Do List

Not to Do – Park here – that's a sidewalk!

‘The Not to Do List’ is an idea I remember reading about years ago long before I read Timothy Ferriss’s notes about The 4 Hour Work Week. If you recall another source of

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Avoid Driving in Circles

This car could go very fast in circles!

Some personal and professional development ideas are so simple they get pushed aside with the assumption everyone will know this idea. This article is to share one of the simple ideas I use that perhaps can

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Focus and Productivity

My Dad told me once that ‘work expands to the time allotted’. I believe this to be a very powerful statement in terms of how it can sum up productivity in either our personal or professional lives.

For example, when I was in university I worked part time (and sometimes full time) as I studied.

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Professional Development: Decide, Delegate, Defer, Delete

As you review your day with Pareto’s Principle in mind you can also apply the Four D’s I suggest below to both your personal and professional development:

When you are about to do something personal or professional review it immediately and:

Decide to do it – since it is important and relates to 80% of

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