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I am a firm believer that your most precious resource is time. There is only so much of it, you must spend it as it becomes available and “Time is money”. You can never reclaim time, or make more of it you can only schedule it wisely. Personal productivity and time management are tightly coupled.

In my opinion one of the highest forms of praise you can offer someone is saying that “I have a lot of time for that person”.

Cheers,
Ian Graham

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Do you get better decisions by taking less time to think about them?

I am currently reading the book “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell is certainly one of my favourite authors have learned from “The Tipping Point”, found “Blink” an amazing read so far and am looking forward to outliers. Blink is titled the power of thinking without thinking. Well worth a read if you have the time.

Now back to the original question are decisions that take less time actually better than those that require time and a due diligence process. I honestly believe there is considerable merit in those blink decisions. The computational power of the unconscious human mind is considerably more that the conscious mind. There is tremendous value in that primitive intuitive sort of thinking that you feel rather than actually think. Making decisions with the heart instead of the head can produce far better results.

A really important question to ask yourself in the decision making process is “How do I fell about this decision?” Once you are in tune with your unconscious computer great things can start to happen.

Cheers,

Ian Graham

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I am really impressed with the attitude and preparation of the Canadian Olympic efforts for Vancouver in 2010. There is a series of media ads being run under the campaign of “Believe”. The ads highlight potential Olympic gold medalists talking about their intention to win gold. What a refreshing change from previous Olympic outings where the athletes were often there to do a personal best.

Frankly if you are being funded to compete at the Olympics you had better have your sights set on Gold. I find the intent and expectations of both the Olympians and the public focused in the right direction. We are seeing results on the World Cup in various winter sports already this year. It is great to see Canada setting itself up with the goal of challenging Germany for leadership in medals won at the Olympics in Vancouver 2010.

If Canada continues on its current trajectory my Blogmatic prediction is that we will deliver our best ever performance at an Olympic games in Vancouver 2010. If you set your goals for gold then you have a reasonable chance of getting there.

Cheers,
Ian Graham

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