Tag: productivity

Never break the chain

Posted on by philipdodson

Apart from being in the lyrics to this well-known Fleetwood Mac song, if you want to build habits, commitment, then build a chain and never break it.

If you take a task or habit, or anything you want to build or achieve and break it down into daily commitments. Grab a calendar or use my new favourite killer app Productive and mark a cross or swipe done each day, it is like building a ‘steel chain’ of commitment to something.

The longer the chain gets the stronger it gets and the less likely you are to break it.

Habit is all about repetition and going back each day and continuing to cut the new pathways in the brain.

Never break the chain and watch how your productivity becomes stronger and stronger.

Inputs and outputs

Posted on by philipdodson

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We often focus all our energies on our daily outputs, on what we are ‘shipping’ and productivity.

The ‘factories’ of the world are besotted with output whether that is widgets, content, ideas, or hot air.

The missing focus is on input.

What goes in, is typically what will come out!

What inputs do our employees get? What inputs are we taking in?

What influences are we, our teams, and the business exposed to? What is shaping our culture? What are we learning? How are developing our skills to improve our creations?

Instead of looking at how to output more, maybe it would be better to first look at what is being inputted, and perhaps more importantly, how do we improve the quality of the inputs to match what we desire to output?