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Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

So I had a heart attack... This is not how I planned my Sunday. It was pretty standard up to 4pm. Morning coffee, a trip to the local country park, a shopping trip and late lunch. I sat down at my desk at 4pm to prep for this weeks work. And then I couldn’t really breathe. My chest felt constrained, I had what I can only describe as surges in my left arm, my neck, my ears were popping. I didn’t get a flash of light, my life race through my mind. Instead I had: 1. Fuck I needed to meet with my manager tomorrow, this isn’t convenient 2. How do I secure the funding for X (work stuff) 3. Shit I haven’t updated my will 4. I hope my wife doesn’t find me dead I got to the bedroom so I could lie down, and got the attention of my wife who phoned 999. I’ve since made the following decisions whilst I’ve laid here, on the basis I don’t die: 1. I’m not spending all day on zoom anymore 2. I’m restructuring my approach to work 3. I’m really not going to be putting up with any s#%t at work ever again - life literally is too short 4. I’m losing 15kg 5. I want every day to count for something at work else I’m changing my role 6. I want to spend more time with my family And that, so far, is what near death has taught me. #heartattack #decisionmaking #leadershiplessons | 14,927 comments on LinkedIn

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This post was originally featured on alastairjohnston.com How do you manage projects in your Bullet Journal? You can manage your future appointments, you can easily manage your to-do’s, all using The Alastair Method. The Alastair Method is a tool for managing your workload by helping you organize short-term tasks and long-term goals. But what about when you have something a little more complicated, something that has a bit more complexity, something like a project? I’ve been struggling for a while to find a simple way to track progress and key deliverables on project work that I do in my day to day employment. I needed to find a way to incorporate some of the techniques of the Kanban process for managing projects, but to do so on paper, for those times when I don’t want to be staring at yet another screen. When I couldn’t find anything

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As a child, Deirdre Sullivan learned from her father to always pay her respects at funerals. Now, this NPR listener believes those simple acts of human kindness are as important as the grand gestures.

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In my professional life, I’ve had several bestselling books published by New York publishers, as well as many other titles that sold modestly. I have also self-published a bunch of books, including one bestseller on Amazon and two massive hit … Continue reading →

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[Epistemic status: fiction] Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…

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