Every year millions of people make new year resolutions in the first days of the year. Usually we want to be fitter, healthier and more successful. Whatever they mean. What makes a man successful? How would you define healthy? I prepared 3+3 special questions to close your year of 2018 and start a purposeful year of 2019.
Category: Personal Effectiveness
Social media is full of 30-day-long challenges. Some of them inspire us to take on a new habit such as doing squats for 30 days. Others encourage us to do restrictions such as not drinking alcohol or not eating sugar.
Long and meaningless team meetings? A colleague who criticizes every new idea? Or total chaos in your head with emotions and rational thoughts?
No problem. Edward De Bono’s method: the six thinking hats can give you solutions for these problems. It was originally designed for group decision making discussions, but it can be used very effectively also for individual decision making.
There are 2 books which impressed me the most: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People from Stephen R. Covey and Flow from Mihály Csikszentmihályi. Both of these books impacted significantly my way of thinking. I can only suggest them to everyone from all ages, gender or positions.
Let me clarify that there aren’t any miraculous magic tools which work for everyone and resolve all of your problems like a magic wand. If you don’t know your priorities, every time management tool will fail. I collected here my favourite methods with a brief explanation. However, before trying out any of these, please go through firstly the basic time management principles to see how to plan your agenda.