Getting More Implementation Resources

We’ll soon have more resources coming but here’s the basic package for now … You can also see our summary and implementation analysis on our public Getting More book page.

Getting More Summary & Resources

Willpower, by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney, is a guide to understanding and boosting your self-control. The book seeks to debunk myths about willpower being a fixed trait and instead reveals it as a resource that gets depleted with use. It also shows how to replenish it through strategies like prioritizing sleep, mindful eating, and building healthy habits. By understanding how willpower works and implementing the book’s tips, you can better prepare yourself to achieve goals, make better decisions, and live a more fulfilling life. Effort – Benefit Analysis of the Power of Full Engagement Book … Scope: Personal Level …

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Power of Full Engagement Summary & Resources

“The Power of Full Engagement” by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz argues that the key to high performance and personal fulfillment lies in managing your energy, not just your time. Effort – Benefit Analysis of the Power of Full Engagement Book … Scope: Personal Level of Effort: Daily/Weekly/Monthly Habits Areas of Effect: Personal Effectiveness, Fitness Instead of focusing on putting in long hours, the book teaches readers how to cultivate four essential dimensions of energy: By optimizing these four energy dimensions, individuals can achieve “full engagement,” a state of being where they are physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and …

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Summary & Resources

Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” isn’t simply a self-help book; it’s a full-bodied philosophy for living a principle-centered, character-driven life. Each habit builds upon the previous one, creating a framework for personal and professional success. It claims to be the distillation of anciently proven ideas on how to find success worth finding. It may be that but it’s also a modern way to frame both a more reliably product life. Effort – Benefit Analysis of the 7 Habits Book … Scope: Personal, Family, Friendships, Organization Level of Effort: Daily/Weekly/Monthly Habits Areas of Effect: Personal Effectiveness, Relationships, …

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Becoming a Better Technical Leader

If you are interested in some tools to help you implement the ideas in this article and associated book by joining our mailing list. I once left a high paying job merely to escape from my direct boss. It was a good job and I was leading a team I loved, but none of that was worth working for this person. Others on the team joined me out the door over the next few months. That’s the impact of poor leadership and my experience is that the impact is heightened when leading technical teams. I enjoy leading teams of smart, capable …

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What’s Important to You? Imagine You’re Dead

One of the key ideas tied to Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is that of first figuring out what is most important to you. Ideas like making sure your ladder of success is leaning against the right wall are core to being “effective” as Covey sees it. One of the exercises designed to explore that is imagining you are at your own funeral and seeing who is there and what you desire them to say about you. One of the tools in the 7 Habits Book Tools implementation package helps you do just that. Download it for free …

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Free 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Implementation Package Available

We just published a new Book Tools implementation package for The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People … wooohooo! This package is designed to take the fine & timeless ideas in the book and make them work in your life. There is one page with an overview of the 7 Habits model and 8 tool template pages to help apply specific ideas and exercises from the book. We’ll describe the available tools over the next few posts and you can view all posts for 7 Habits here. For now, here’s a quick overview of the habits … Be Proactive: You …

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