One of the most helpful pieces of productivity advice I’ve ever received was the suggestion to create a To Don’t list. This would be a list of all of the tasks and daily rituals that I should stop doing. It’s a simple message that moves one toward a simpler life. I feel like I live in a world where I …
Five Perspectives To Evaluate Your Experiences: #1-Redo
I am always a bit amazed at some of the very wise things that Abraham Lincoln said. One of his quotes that you can spend an afternoon thinking and reflecting on deals with the importance of evaluation, in this case, self-evaluation: “I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” -Abraham …
Download: Experience Evaluation Form
Following up from my last post on Evaluation Exercises, I have completed the Experience Evaluation Form. This is a full-color, downloadable PDF document. The first page contains the overview of each of the five evaluation perspectives: redo, revoke, reward, revise, and recruit. This tool is especially helpful for evaluating an event or activity that required the help of others. For …
Evaluation Exercises
There’s a lot of snow on the ground today. I’ve included a pic I took with my iPhone using the Hipstamatic app. While this post isn’t about that app…I highly recommend it! The snow shows us that we have clearly made the transition from Fall to Winter. Sometimes the change from one season to another isn’t as pronounced. The next …
Leadership Observations From The Miami Heat
You may or may not be a fan of the NBA. I know that I tend to get a bit more interested in the league around playoff times. It seems in professional basketball…it’s all about the playoffs. There’s a lot of news coming out of the Miami Heat. Expectations had been high at the start of this season because of …
10 Lessons For Leading Like A Champion
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on a championship team? To be the one who hoists the shiny trophy at the end of a hard fought season? What if you weren’t only on the team…what if you were the leader of that team? All of us have those moments where we envision ourselves standing at …
Book Review: Acting Up Brings Everyone Down
I first heard of Nick McCormick when he sent me a copy of his first book, Lead Well and Prosper. It was a fairly quick read (short chapters with great summary statements at the end) chocked full of helpful leadership advice. So you might have guessed I was (very) pleasantly surprised to know that Nick had written another book. He …
10 Tips To Take Your Leadership To The Next Level
It’s Top 10 Week here at timmilburn.com. Check out the first two lists here and here. Mark Victor Hansen gives great wisdom when he says, “Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will …