You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton I always try putting in place a few measures to ensure I get exposure to challenging and confronting…
Tag: getting things done
Juggling
The ability to juggle is said to make you smarter, more attentive and agile. I wonder whether juggling the responsibilities of life counts… We all have so much going on that juggling competing priorities, things…
The Estyn Curve
The theory illustrated in the Estyn Curve was developed by a small group of undergraduates (including yours truly and a guy named Estyn who’s idea it was in the first place) whilst procrastinating instead of…
This is water
There are so many people going places; doing things; always in each other’s way all at the same time. Everyone is in a rush operating in some sort of vacuum, oblivious to their surrounds. If…
Building
Working with your hands, learning a trade, building something you can see before your very own eyes is a wonderful thing. Like the intangible effort, building something with your hands requires skill, concentration and effort. Little is left to chance. Unlike the intangible effort…
Stand up
Stand up for progress. Stand up for change. Stand up to brief. Stand up to debrief. Stand up to sprint. Stand up to retrospect. Stand up to scrum. Stand up to iterate. Stand up to…
The marvels…
We can be here and there right now, at a point in time. Simultaneously engaging with our own thoughts, interacting with our fellow human beings in our physical vicinity and with those across the other…
Deadlines
Deadlines are an everyday part of life and they can take on varying forms like getting to work on time, catching a scheduled bus or handing that assignment or report in on time at school…
The Cloud
The other day I was burning a data DVD and my other half asked a valid question: Why are we still using these things? The answer went something along the lines of ‘most of the…
Lights are on…
…but nobody’s home. I’m founding that more and more. We all seem so distracted with other things…who knows what…but there are so many absent looking people it’s actually a bit scary. There are so many…
Keeping it together
There are some people who juggle a lot with ease, others juggle a lot and struggle, some can’t juggle at all. What I find remarkable are people who seem to fit 48 hours of things…