#personal organisation

You know that person in your life; the one who always shows up an hour plus later? The individual who walks into meetings after everyone is already seated? The friend who makes you wait at restaurants so often you’ve memorized the menu before they arrive? The household that runs on a flipped schedule and every thing is late? The company that loses value to truncated meetings? The system and…

Job hoppers: Learn to serve a minimum of four years in a job. This, by viewing employment through personal effectiveness than efficiency lens. Learn to build a world you yearn for in the world that you inherited

Learn to build a world you yearn for in the world that you inherited.  To those individuals that are job hopping: serve a minimum of four years in a job. It’s not that difficult if your mind is programmed to view employment through personal effectiveness than efficiency lens. Job hopping is indeed more of an employee than employer centric matter

Yesterday, I met someone that has worked for one…

We eat food and die of food. We get a job and die of the job. We do too much work, end up stressed and brain dead. We eat food and end up heavier than we need to be and ill. It's all about choice.

Are we eating and working ourselves to death?

We eat food and die of food. We get a job and die of the job. We do too much work, end up stressed and brain dead. We eat food and end up heavier than we need to be and ill. Yet, you can choose a much safer route. It’s all about choice.

The two things we need the most in life, food and work, have become life thieves. Moreover, stealing the very life,…

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress

By David Allen (Author), James Fallows (Foreword)

“The Bible of business and personal productivity” —Lifehack

“A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from ‘the personal productivity guru'”—Fast Company

Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the…

Lost your enthusiasm? Overwhelmed by circumstances? Disillusioned or spinning your wheels? Here’s my experience: I hope it helps you turn things around… photo credit: Lorenzo (licence) In June this year I went quiet. My weekly blog posts and newsletters abruptly stopped and I disappeared from your browser and email inbox. Apart from automatic emails to my subscribers, there have been four months…

When birthdays become scary events – Series 1 of 2

Every first week of November, we celebrate two birthdays in the family – my birthday and that of my niece, Anaya Kirabo. Both birthdays are on the extreme ends of the age continuum – Anaya has just made four, and I will turn fifty in just over three years.

Those close to Anaya will want to ensure that her great early-childhood-development and the journey to adulthood continues uninterrupted.  On…

Employee performance optimisation – Series 1

Don’t all modern firms grapple with individual employee productivity issues? The modern firm wants to squeeze every bit of productivity out of its individual employee. Armed with an array of digital tools for email and calendar management, giant-sized cloud-based shared drives, collaborative tools like Trello and Evernote, and Virtual Private Network’s (VPNs), the modern firm is equipped to trail…