Another great day with my family. Plus I continued in the practice of doing my morning pages, and my typing speed seems to be coming up. I’m starting to experience some of the things that people have told me over the years about creativity. The way to be creative is to sit down and do [...]
Day 17 of 90 – 1 Step Forward, 2 Steps Back
December 26, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Day 15 and Day 16 of 90 – Merry Christmas
December 25, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
The last two days have been effectively business free. Lots of toys, lots of games (did I mention my 3 year old and my 8 year old?) Last night (Christmas Eve) we got done wrapping all presents and got into bed about 12:30. It was later than we were intending, but the kids knew [...]
Day 14 of 90 – Are you leveraging the power of focus and habits
December 23, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Got nine and a half hours of sleep last night, that made a huge difference. Every day keeps bringing more focus. I’ve got between 8 and 15 measures that I’m tracking on a daily basis. These measures provide visibility into what is actually happening. They are provide leverage over habits. Habits drive results. Here’s [...]
Day 13 of 90 – Lack of Sleep Finally Catches Up
December 22, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Three days till Christmas and all through the house, nobody’s sleeping, not even a mouse. Not exactly the truth, but it’s close enough. Miss Adventure Monkey, and Precarious This, are both getting good sleep. We only recently decided to stagger their bed times and that’s been helping a lot. (little things that in hind [...]
Day 12 of 90 – Slow Consistent Action
December 21, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
The first draft of this post consisted of me whining about my lack of productivity. Then I started thinking about it, and realized that this whining was just my self sabotage mechanism at work. What I got done today was to clear off another level of crud from my thought processes. I also did some home schooling with Miss [...]
Day 11 of 90 – Making God Giggle
December 20, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
It’s said that if you want to hear God giggle, just tell him your plans. Had my call with my one current marketing customer this morning, that went fantastic. We went over some of their current staffing challenges and some business numbers to focus on that most companies can’t answer, but are the key to [...]
Days 05 thru 10 of 90 – Back on Track
December 19, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Day 5, met with a good friend to chart out the “How to have 2013 be your best year ever” seminar. This needs to be scheduled. Might put some adword magic on it and use it as a lead capture opportunity. Day 6, was a family day, went to my niece’s holiday show. She’s 5, [...]
Day 04 of 90 – Back on Track
December 14, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Yesterday was a much better day. Started the day with a coaching call to my manufacturing client. I got through all my voice files and dumped everything into a couple of mind maps. Took a break at one point to watch some training, and spent about an hour bouncing on the mini-trampoline while doing so, [...]
Day 03 of 90 – Homeschooling while starting a venture.
December 12, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Better day than yesterday. A lot of time spent home schooling our oldest daughter (Miss Adventure Monkey.) It was productive in a home schooling way, but not in a business way. Call it a victory. At the same time, when I took our youngest daughter (Precarious This) the place was on lock down because someone [...]
Day 02 of 90
December 11, 2012 by malcolm | No Comments
Not as good a day as I had hoped. Mostly spent it taking care of the kids. A bit more time getting things organized, but it really didn’t help that I got 5 hours of sleep last night. Let’s see how day three goes.