22 Way to Become More Effective

1. Clarify one thing. Efficient is getting stuff done. Effective is getting the right stuff done.  A world gone mad seduces with the former. To stay sane, focus on the latter.
2. Build a Flight Deck 1. A clear uncluttered, well lit working area. 
3. Build a Flight Deck 2. Your Master List. A list of priorities built upon your Personal Compass (Career/wellness/finances/relationships/fun..). A list where the reward is the result not the tick. Details in Get a Life.
4. Zone, Zone, Zone. Set limits for work time. Switch off and play. We are Hunter-Gatherers at heart.
5. Review, Review, Review. Get out of the swamp a couple of times a day and re-focus.
6. Move. Stand, walk, move and notice your thinking and decision making improve.
7. Process not just content. Insist (e.g. in a meeting) on deciding how things will be managed/run before diving into content.
8. Deliberately managing e-mail rather than reacting to it.
9. Scheduling and taking planning time to think.
10. Sleeping fully and deeply.
11. Doing the stuff they forget to mention at business school.
12. Eating for nutrition not just calories.
13. Never let anyone spoil your day.
14. Taking more of the right kind of drugs.
15. Breaking big goals down so that they are time and brain friendly.
16. Boosting energy via MEDS: meditation-exercise-diet-sleep. Again, Get a Life has the details.
17. Focusing on the vital few which deliver high returns.
18. Automating the trivial many which need doing but have low returns.
19. Becoming more intelligent.
20. Slowing down just when you think you need to speed up.
21. Never, ever losing your sense of humour.
22. Having love and friendship at the core of your life.

 

Bonus: How to be Brilliant.

Bonus 1: Hunter-Gatherer 21 Century, Two Score & Ten; Bonus 2: 22 Things to do on Planet Earth; Bonus 3: 22 Ways to Feel Better, More of the Time.

Bonus 4: 22 Things They Still Don't Teach You at Business School; Bonus 5: 22 Stupid Things Large Organisations Do; Bonus 6: Slow 22

Bonus 7: 22 Reasons Your 2017 is Going To Be Awesome; Bonus 8: The Fundamental Problems with Powerpoint. Still. 22

Bonus 9: 22 Ways to be an Awesome Conference Speaker; Bonus 10: Love Presenting Hate (Badly Used) PowerPoint

Bonus 11: The 22 Fundamental Errors Large Organisations Still Make; Bonus 12: Brilliant at the Basics of Business; Bonus 13: Routes to Less Stress 22

Bonus 14: That Other F Word; Bonus 15: What's Wrong with The Typical Corporate Selling Machine, 

Bonus 16: 22 Reasons 79% of any Workforce is Woefully Unproductive; Bonus 17: 22 Ways To Create a Small, Simple, Start-Up.

Bonus 18: 22 Ways to Get Better at Anything; Bonus 19: 22 Routes to Becoming Unstoppable.; Bonus 20: Re-boot 22

Bonus 21: 22 Ways to Better Results at the Gym; Bonus 22: 11 Ways to Fix that Presentation; Bonus 23: 22 Things to do on Vacation

Bonus 24: 11 Things to do in September; Bonus 25: 22 Things to do at Work; Bonus 26: 22 Ways to Reduce Stress; Bonus 27: 22 Things to Learn

Bonus 28: 22 Pretty Straightforward Productivity Boosters; Bonus 29: The 22 Steps to Getting What You Want in 2017

Bonus 30: The 22 Reasons Earth wins 'best planet ever, anywhere' award 2016; Bonus 31: The Less of Eleven

Bonus 32: 11 Ways Any Company Can Really Impress The (Potential) Customer; Bonus 33: 22 Ways To Build Your personal Brand

Bonus 34: 11 Things To Write in your New Moleskine Notebook; Bonus 35: 11 Ways to Better Quality Sleep; Bonus 36: 11 Ways to get a Fresh Idea

Bonus 37: 22 High Value (but just 10 minute) activities; Bonus 38: 11 Helpful Contrasts; Bonus 39: 22 Essentials for Thriving in the 21C Urban Jungle.

Bonus 40: 22 Healing Activities in A World of the Electron

Bonus 41: 22 Words; Bonus 42: 11 Reasons for Stories; Bonus 43: 22 Things Which Help You When You Are Down

Bonus 44: Hunter-Gatherer 21C, A Day in The Life

Bonus 45: 22 Reasons to Run

Bonus 46: 11 Decisions for a World of Craziness.

Bonus 47: 11 Simple Routes to Excellence

Bonus 48: 11 To Hunt & Gather

Bonus 49: 22 Reasons to be Cheerful

Bonus 50: 11 Tough Realities.

Bonus 51: 22 Things to Let Go Of

Bonus 52: 22 Possible Goals for 2018