Category: Blog


  • The one rule to getting results

    If we don’t have this skill, everything takes us longer and is harder. Yet it is simple to cultivate. Everyone can do it.

  • The huge capital myth (and 21 online biz ideas)

    Two of your friends get together and you thought they never liked each other. Somebody gets promoted and you thought management saw them as disruptive. Someone you know always seems to turn everything  s/he touches into a success, even with little education or prior experience. Do you sometimes feel you’ve been missing something,  or is…

  • 4 rules every creative should know

    If you are a creative, I bet you’re familiar with the following scenario. You’re staring at the screen or blank piece of paper,  but your brain isn’t coming up with the goods. The screen/paper is staring back at you. You hold your head in desperation, even massage it, as if it were Aladdin’s magic lamp! In today’s post, I…

  • The overnight success myth debunked

    “Right time, right place” We have grown to love having everything easy . We get our food from the supermarket shelves. If we choose to, we can just zap it in the microwave, or even have it cooked and delivered to us. Our clothes are washed for us at the press of a button. We…

  • The “Updated or Outdated” quiz

    So…. Are you outdated or updated in your thinking? Is your knowledge about productivity,  creativity and entrepreneurship helping your results or hampering them? Take the quiz then prepare to have 5 common myths in the aforementioned fields busted in front of your eyes in a couple of posts. But for now… 5 questions, 5 minutes!…

  • The silver bullet myth debunked

    It’s an ever changing, result driven, productivity obsessed world… We constantly need to adapt…Double quick! How do we cope ? By using shortcuts, making quick judgements, resorting to “life hacks” sometimes. This is actually an instinctive thing our brain does, but at the risk of not always being accurate. Experience your brain doing it while…

  • Do you think that making lists is for a particular type of person: the CEO, his /her secretary, or -I’m being politically incorrect here- the plain  boring individual, with a life devoid of spontaneity or creativity? I certainly did at one time. Would it surprise you to know that even for a creative, having a…

  • Scattered or Focused?

    I have always disliked distractions. I am infamous for not always picking up the phone. This became worse after I worked for a call centre, because the experience rammed down my throat how interruptions were detrimental to my productivity. As it turns out, some interruptions I still invite without even realising it. It’s insidious… Here’s…

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