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How’s Your Board’s Psychic RAM?

How’s Your Board’s Psychic RAM?

Leading productivity expert David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, has coined a fascinating phrase: “Psychic RAM.” He argues that as individuals, when we try to keep our “to do” lists in our heads, we are tying up valuable RAM. Consequently, we have no creative...
A New Approach to Resolutions

A New Approach to Resolutions

Many of us begin the New Year with a list of “resolutions” – a list of “what” we are going to do differently this year.  Within a few months, or weeks, or even days, we have broken many of those resolutions.  I wonder if the reason is that we began with the wrong...
Is Your Board Sprouting Suckers?

Is Your Board Sprouting Suckers?

I recently had an old lilac tree removed from my yard and had someone come to grind out the main stump.  Then I decided it would be a good place to create a new garden bed, but there was a lot of work to be done to prepare the bed.  Since my approach to life is to...
Wild Boars – or Wild Boards

Wild Boars – or Wild Boards

A typo in a newspaper headline earlier this year caught my eye.  The photo was of several wild boars, and the headline read “Alberta admits defeat in attempt to wipe out wild BOARD with bounty.” [emphasis added]  The article goes on to explain how wild boars have...

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