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Why I Teach Agile Results
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King Long ago, after I had already been teaching Agile Results to many teams at Microsoft, I was asked to present to an even larger group. Normally, I would just show up and present, but in …
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The Friday Reflection Habit (A Profound Tool for Personal Growth)
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard After 25 years of high performance at Microsoft, what did I learn about my best productivity methods and tools? Well, I want to give you my single greatest proven practice for continuous personal growth, mindfulness, and mental well-being. I call …
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The Monday Vision Habit (How To Create Clarity, Generate Energy, and Inspire Better Results)
“Monday Vision is the key to Contagious Inspiration!” – J.D. Meier The Monday Vision Habit is a powerful way to have better weeks. It’s a way to practice more mindfulness while achieving better results. I’ve used Monday Vision for a coupled decades to unleash and empower myself and others, and large teams and orgs, too. …
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How To Use OKRs with Agile Results to Achieve Bigger, Better Goals
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie Agile Results is a simple productivity system for individuals, teams, and leaders to help you think better, feel better, do better, with a focus on better energy for better results. Agile Results …
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What is an Ideal Schedule for a Productive and Happy Life?
“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr. When it comes to creating a schedule that really helps you find your flow and operate at a higher level, with deeper levels of fulfillment, joy and happiness, while exploring and realizing your full potential, it’s not as elusive as it …
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3 Wins for Today (Win Your Day the Agile Way)
“The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.” — Bobby Knight What are your 3 Wins for Today? The simplest way to use Agile Results to slay your day is to start with that question. 3 Wins for Today is a …
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How To Improve Your Focus and Your Flow
“Where attention goes energy flows; where intention goes energy flows!” — James Redfield How do you keep your focus and your flow in an ever distracted world? There are a lot of things you can do, but the most important thing is to start with the basics. Here is a simple way to improve your …
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Mastering the Rule of 3 for Work and Life
“Good things happen when you set your priorities straight.” — Scott Caan If you really want to master your productivity, then master the Rule of 3. The Rule of 3 is a way to simplify and cluster your activity into 3 meaningful outcomes, results, or achievements. When you use the Rule of 3, you’re effectively …
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How To Use 3 Wins to Generate Better Energy for Better Results
“If you want something stuck in someone’s head, put it in a sequence of three.” — Brian Clark You can use my 3 Wins approach to generate better energy for better results. 3 Wins works like a champ. It’s kid tested and mother approved. And I’ve used it to make it through the worst days …
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How To Use Agile Results to Build Empathy for Your Future Self
“Life is a sum of all your choices. So what are you doing today?” — Albert Camus The skill of visualizing your Future Self might just be the best skill you can develop as the director of your life to grow yourself in the direction of your dreams. After all, we’re really the sum of …
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Cheat Sheet–The Knowledge Model for Agile Results
Here is a Cheat Sheet of the Model for Agile Results that you can use to go deeper into the productivity knowledge that Agile Results is based on. One of the challenges in learning any space is understanding the core knowledge and cornerstone concepts behind it. Behind the Agile Results productivity system, is a deep …
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Understand Your Strengths Through Productivity Personas
“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” — Francine Jay What kind of Productivity Persona are you? By knowing your Productivity Persona you can learn how to better adapt your productivity approach for the situation or challenges at hand. You can also use your Productivity Persona …
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Modern Productivity is More Human, More Sustainable, and More Social
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.” — Franz Kafka What is modern productivity? Or, maybe a better way to put it is, what should modern productivity really be about? As I’ve been doing more talks for teams around Microsoft on the Agile Results productivity system, I’ve …
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Why Master Productivity?
“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day.” — Richard Branson Productivity is one of the best games to master in this lifetime. If you can master your productivity, then you win the game of work and life. I don’t think of productivity as getting more things done. I think …
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How To Teach Students Better Productivity with Agile Results
“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students.” — Cesar Chavez Student success depends on productivity skills. Agile Results helps improve student productivity and helps students become more productive. Editors Note: This is a guest post by Tom Cassidy. Tom has been a mover and shaker in …
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Just Start
“Just Do It.” – Nike How do you defeat procrastination and find your motivation? Just start. Just Start is a practice I introduced in my book, Getting Results the Agile Way, because I wanted a simple phrase and a pithy reminder of how to find your motivation and take action. I wanted a very simple …
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The Zen of Zero Inbox: How To Master Your Email Management
“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.“ – Bruce Lee You too can have a zero email inbox, if you choose to. I chose to go zero mail in my inbox when I first joined Microsoft years ago, and I’m glad I did. With a single glance, I …
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How to Clear Your Inbox
“Email has an ability many channels don’t: creating valuable personal touches–at scale.” — David Newman Today I helped a colleague clear their inbox. I’ve kept a zero mail inbox for a few years. I forgot this wasn’t common practice until a colleague said to me, “wow, your inbox doesn’t scroll.” I didn’t learn the Zen …
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How To Make Your Months More Meaningful
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” — Anotole France Now’s a great time to pick your dreams up, blow the dust off, and get ready to make them happen. Your can make this month all about getting results in key areas of your …
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Be Effective, then Efficient
One important Covey lesson one of my mentor’s always points out is, “Be efficient with things, but be effective with people.” I like the distinction. Effective is doing the right things for the right results. Efficient is optimizing. It’s the least waste of time and effort. Before you try to be more efficient, first try …