J. David Stark

Tag: Productivity

  • Are You Free to Focus? (Part 2: Stopping)

    This post is the second part of the review of some of the highlights of Michael Hyatt’s book Free to Focus. If you missed this introduction, be sure to go back to read it for the context it provides on what we’re discussing this week. Hyatt divides his advice in Free to Focus into three…

  • Daily Gleanings (9 April 2019)

    “Plan for what is difficult while it is easy. Do what is great while it is small. – Sun Tzu” via Michael Hyatt A little bit of research, writing, or anything done regularly and incrementally over time adds up to a lot with significantly less pressure to finish at the end. CUP has a new…

  • Are You Free to Focus? (Part 1)

    Are You Free to Focus? (Part 1)

    Do you feel like you’re drowning in a sea of tasks? Do you keep your nose to the grindstone and complete to-dos like a machine only to look up and find you’re failing to make the progress you want in the areas or projects that matter most? If so, then you need to read Michael…

  • A Conversation about Essentials

    Some time ago, Michele Cushatt, Michael Hyatt, and Greg McKeown sat down to discuss “essentialism,” or “the disciplined pursuit of less but better.” Unfortunately, the discussion recording has now been taken down. More thoughts from Greg along these lines are available in his book Essentialism. But there were two points in particular that stood out…

  • Inside “Yes” is “No”

    Inside “Yes” is “No”

    We like to be able to say “yes,” whether it’s to a person, an organization, an activity, an object, or whatever.1 But human experience works out such that inside any “yes” is also a “no.” A bias toward “yes” isn’t inherently bad. It keeps us moving forward. Where we start running into trouble is when…

  • Finding Control and Space at TEDx

    In 2014, David Allen discussed the “getting in control and creating space” in a TEDx talk in Amsterdam. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOSFxKaqOm4] For additional discussion, see Allen’s Getting Things Done and related posts here.