Effectivity
How to Keep Going When a Sane Person Would Stop
When you finish at your dance class, every one heads home except that one crazy lady who keeps on practicing well into the night. She is a bit like the guy who keeps swimming lap after lap even as the pool attendant has turned off the lights and is coiling up the lane ropes. They just keep […]
Find Your Motivation Switch
If you were to look at my life as I worked on two different activities, you might be tempted to believe that you are looking at two different people. If you saw me dragging myself dejectedly through paperwork, scratching my head as I try to submit my annual tax return, you would have trouble believing that this […]
Are you an achievement junkie?
How would Pavarotti enjoy singing Carols by Candlelight with a few dozen tuneless amateurs? Do you imagine that Lance Armstrong looks forward to riding his bike down to the shops to buy a newspaper? Once we get serious about any form of achievement, we can get to the stage that anything less than high performance is […]
The Productivity Pitfall
When people in business talk about productive efficiency, they mean how much they can squeeze from a fixed input - a machine, an employee or a field of corn. They recognize that there is a range of possible output, but that there is an upper limit and that this is where the business wants to […]
Building Effective Attitudes Part 4 - Conation
If cognition is what you believe about skydiving, and affection is what you feel about skydiving, then conation is the likelihood that when your turn comes, you will throw yourself out of the plane and skydive.
Conation is simply how we intend to act towards a particular subject or in a particular situation. It is the […]
Building Effective Attitudes Part 3 - Affect
Today I went training with a couple of guys from my cycling team. It was a hot day and so we decided to take it easy, but as the kilometres passed we got more and more excited and ended up with a flat out time trial leading up to our turn around. It was a bad decision […]
Building Effective attitudes part 2 - Cognition
I live in Japan, but I don’t look like a Japanese person, I look like a foreigner. When I meet someone for the first time, no matter how well I speak Japanese with them, they are likely to not understand me. It could be because of my Australian accent, but mostly it is because my new friend believes that […]
Building Effective Attitudes part 1
Attitude was once a fashionable word. “That man has attitude” people would say, half in awe; half in judgement. Wearing a shirt that had the word ”Attitude” printed on it was seen as a display of attitude. People loved to describe attitudes that lead to achievement, or use the cliche “Bad attitude” to describe someone that took a contrary view […]
My Article Writing Template - Effectivity in Action
Effectivity is simply effective productivity. It demands that you know exactly what you want to achieve and only then can you be effective in productively pursuing this goal. This is contrasted to ineffectivity, which is the process of productively pursuing actions which are not effective in carrying you to your goals. In the past I have often been guilty of ineffectivity.
I’ve […]
7 Quick Steps to Get Off the Ground
Knowing where to start something important, can be very hard. Especially something as important as a life goal. Imagine that today you have hatched a brand new goal for your life. Where do you start, what comes first, how do you get off the ground?
There is a logical process to follow. If you carry out these […]
