Nicholas Bate

Ready for May. Productivity Primer, 14

1. It all starts with wellness: clear-headed judgement, plentiful energy and easy acceptance of constant demands and uncertainty.
2. Wellness=M-E-D-S. That's meditation, exercise, diet and sleep.
3. True productivity needs what and when.
4. What is your flight-deck, your overview, your big picture of what you want to do and have to do. It's one list in one place and always accessible. 
5. When is your schedule or diary or wall-planner.
6. Break down into brain and time friendly chunks what is on your list and place it in your schedule when you will do it.  Do that each day.
7. When considering what you need and want to do, ensure all areas of your Personal Compass are addressed: 
8. Career
9. Wellness
10. Personal Finance
11. Relationships
12. Fun
13. Contribution
14. When choices have to be made (which they invariably will have to be: you can do anything but you can't do everything) consider short-term and long-term payoff and balance across the compass. Easy? No. That's why wellness (back to 1) is critical.

Lots of further help in Get A Life.

Just One Thing, 98 of 101

Removing Twitter from Your Life?

Gain years of wealth, health and happiness. 

So Many

Books.

Patrick Rhone

Updates.

On Staying Sane

With Sovereign Professional.

Changes at Basecamp

Well worth a read.

HT Execupundit. 

Cultural Offering has

Chalk, Beethoven and Edward Hopper. 

And more.

Just One Thing, 97 of 101

Efficiency is getting stuff done.

Effectiveness is getting the right stuff done.

Technology aids us with the first.

Your brain still has to facilitate the second.

21 Ways to Improve your Zoom Conference Keynote

1. Keep it short.
2. Make it useful and instantly valuable to the audience.
3. Don't use PowerPoint;
4. Use story, audience interaction (especially critical with Zoom) and action points.
5. If you must use PowerPoint use it as a backdrop not a teleprompter.
6. Don’t sit while delivering.
7. Rehearse the words you will say.
8. Rehearse the tone you will use.
9. Practise the energy you will need.
10. Your phone video can help with 7, 8, 9.
11. Love this assignment. And show it.
12. Introduce yourself, but then...
13. Burst straight in like a Bond movie with immediate relevant points.
14. Add to the mix: changes of pace, a bit of humour and essential points repeated.
15. Link to the themes of the conference.
16. Link to other presenters.
17. Dress smart but not distracting.
18. Ensure you know the time exactly but never be seen to look at watch, clock nor phone.
19. Signal a Q&A 'in a few minutes' so people can get ready and then you are likely to have questions. 
20. Thank the audience, tell them where to find out more and finish on time.
21. Write a personal review immediately of what went well and what you might do differently.

Just One Thing, 96 of 101

The universe repeatedly throws us opportunities to re-boot, re-fresh and/or re-evaluate.

Grab one.