For many people, procrastination is perceived as being the same as laziness. If you’re not getting things done, if you’re not meeting your commitments, people are quick to generate all manner of unpleasant labels:  sloppy, unreliable, useless, lazy.
But is this fair? Is it even true?
For me, laziness suggests an unwillingness to do anything. When I [...]

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What is it that causes us to delay action? What is it that causes us to procrastinate?
Steven Pressfield calls it Resistance. His wonderful book, ‘The War of Art’, explores this concept better than any other book I have found on the topic. It’s a book I use in the Smarter Egg Overcoming Procrastination programmes.
This quote [...]

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One common misconception about procrastination is that we only tend to put off the things we hate to do. There are so many examples of tasks we would love to avoid: housework, going to the dentist, having a ‘difficult’ conversation etc. It’s easy to understand why we might choose to delay acting on those.
Would it [...]

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Recently, I teamed up with ace film-maker Donal O’Shea and spent a wonderful day in the company of some of our Smarter Egg learning group participants. We visited them in their own work environments and chatted about their experiences with their learning groups. Donal expertly crafted some of the footage of those conversations into a [...]

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Procrastination is a powerful force. Quite often, it’s too powerful for us, preventing us from taking action in the way we would like.
One of the keys to overcoming procrastination is to allow ourselves to build systems, structures and relationships that give us the means to overcome the impulse to procrastinate. This piece from the The [...]

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The very first Smarter Egg learning group was formed just over a year ago. Initially, this group came together for the ‘Break From The Pack’ programme. Such was the power of the learning and the connections made, the group wanted another session. And then another. And from there, two more ’seasons’ of learning have followed.
The [...]

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Books have always been popular Christmas presents. But just like other presents, many givers can completely misread the needs and likes of the recipients. We often fall into the trap of giving the most popular or most heavily promoted books. And it turns out we rarely read them.
Many people have asked me recently for recommendations [...]

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There has rarely been a better time to quit. Everything appears to be changing. And changing faster than we ever expected. Old models are crumbling. Some new ones are emerging. There’s a lot of chaos in between.
If you have been worried about the social impact of quitting, then maybe this is as good as it [...]

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In Break From The Pack – How To Compete In A Copycat Economy, Oren Harari challenges businesses to dominate some area of their market. And if they don’t, they should leave that market.
He claims that companies that declare they intend to dominate everything wind up dominating nothing.
This makes a lot of sense to me. Yet, [...]

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One of the advantages of living in a free society is that we have many choices available to us. Very few aspects of our lives are mandatory, even if some of us tend to lose sight of this at times.
High value is placed on having multiple options. The more choices we have the better. The [...]

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