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What’s your strategy for your time?

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

What’s your strategy for your time?   I pondered that question for years.   I had habits. I had a Sabbath pract...

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The Hamster Wheel and the Training Regime

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere. Do you...

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Don Draper in Hawaii

By David Werdiger | 2 min read

There’s a scene in “Mad Men” where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of...

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The Mexico Passover and Thailand Holidays

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort. Turns out the destination is...

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Pre-Course Launch Announcement

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.   Pleased to announce a program to help answer an importan...

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Desocialisation leads to even further polarisation

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  Every frictionless transaction is a missed encounter. We built apps that let us skip the shopkeeper, the drive...

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An Ancient Solution to a New Problem

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  Rest used to mean restriction. Now technology has captured almost every waking hour, engineered to keep you th...

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The definition of crazy

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  When your audience went from the room you’re in to billions of people, the rational response was to rais...

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Boundaries between rest and busyness

By David Werdiger | 1 min read

  The boundary between work and rest doesn’t enforce itself. What rituals do you use to mark the transition?

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Productivity culture runs like a hamster wheel. It just keeps running, at the same pace, going nowhere.

Do you manage your time like a hamster wheel or do you put a training program in place and find time to rest?

There's a scene in "Mad Men" where Don Draper is asked what he thought about Hawaii, and instead of talking about beaches, he talks about becoming someone else. Not a version of himself with better tan lines and a Mai Tai. A different person. One who, for a few days, didn't miss

I recently took one of the best holidays of my life, and I never left the resort.

Turns out the destination is beside the point. What you're actually chasing is a change of pace, and if your holiday runs on the same schedule as your working week, you've just moved the treadmill

We have strategies for our careers, our finance, our help.

Pleased to announce a program to help answer an important question: “what’s your strategy for your time?”

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