Robbie MacKay

Since I’m not going to make time to write a real review.. (I haven’t even finished reading the free excerpt I was sent)

I’ll just say this:

Linchpin = Awesome

You may now continue

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591843162/

De-cluttering things is great

It creates space for new things

De-cluttering a house, creates a nicer space to live in.. and gives space for things you actually want

Clear out old documents, photos, projects, etc… create space for new ones that you actually want now

De-clutter your head…

This is part of why I blog.

It gets the ideas out of my head,
gets them into the world,
where they can contribute to others…

But it also de-clutters my head

Creating space for new ideas, new thoughts

(See also: Seth Godin talking about why he blogs)

Do less, Impact more

That’s what I came up with when trying to squeeze my current ideas into 4 words for a recent Intersect meetup.

It is in part I was inspired by this recent post by Seth Godin.

I keep saying I’m busy and don’t have time to do things, but yet I’m spending a lot of my ‘non work’ time either doing things I feel a duty to do, instead of the things I really want to do.

So over the next few months, I’m going to endeavour to start doing less of the things I just do automatically or out of duty.

This doesn’t mean I’m just going to abandon things I’m expected to do (like fixes for old clients).
- That wouldn’t serve me or anyone else very well
But I’m going to start tieing up the loose ends: fixing problems properly, so I only do it once.

If I still have to do something I’m not excited about, I want to do it consciously not just as an automatic reaction.

Basically I’m aiming to discover how much free time I really have and then be able to dedicate that to things I’m really passionate about.

I recently read The Dip, a great little book by Seth Godin. It inspired these thoughts about tall poppy syndrome in New Zealand.

Tall poppy syndrome refers to the phenomenon where high achievers and/or people who stand out are criticised or resented for their talents or achievements.

We often talk about tall poppy syndrome and how bad it is.

The fear is that if we standout someone will cut us down.

It occurred to me however that the real crime is not that people cut others down for doing well or standing out. I honestly don’t know if people really do that.

The crime is that we let that stop us from standing out.
We let them cut us down.

And then we teach each other (and our kids) to be worried about people cutting us down and to be careful about standing out.

At the moment it doesn’t matter if people cut us down or not, we never do anything to stand out anyway.

We are still afraid, and we are letting that control us.

So start standing out, start doing great things.
If someone cuts you down? – Challenge them to better you instead
If someone thinks you’re great? – Celebrate with them, thank them.. and show them they can be great too!

What do you think? – Comment and let me know

Note: I’m going to try and post updates every Wednesday so look out for another post in a week