The short of it At a certain point, you need to make a lead of faith and start trusting your GTD system. If you do not do that, you will not be able to test its real relevance to you. The Last Crusade There is this great Indiana Jones movie. It is not Raiders of … Continue reading Leap of faith – trusting your GTD system
Presence versus contribution
Why you should not be responsible of answering every email immediately Imagine a situation where you are putting a small stool next to your post box. Rather than doing anything useful, you just sit there, trying to get things done while stopping every five minutes to open the post box, just to make sure nothing … Continue reading Presence versus contribution
Regular expressions for internal auditors
Back to the past I still remember the time when we had to audit large data sets by hand. You may think that is a long time ago, but I'm talking about the mid to late 1990s. That was in my youth as an auditor. I remember spending hours waiting next to a large printer … Continue reading Regular expressions for internal auditors
Using Basecamp for internal audit documentation
Ah, old times! I was brought up as an internal auditor in a day and age when computer aided auditing was still to become mainstream. I know that dates me, but so be it. My first years of auditing consisted of performing audit tests as described in a paper work program. I was responsible for … Continue reading Using Basecamp for internal audit documentation
Does your attitude match your altitude?
What does your to do list look like? Take a look at your to do list. It looks anything like mine, it's a set of executable actions structured by project, as well as some structured single action lists. Look closer still... How many of these projects are really core to you? The real you? How … Continue reading Does your attitude match your altitude?
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I'm not one to lightly put advertisements or suggestions for support on my blog. I avoid that because it makes our relationship different. I want to produce interesting, relevant, good content which I hope you can enjoy. However, this one is a little different. I know a few of you are Mac users. Perhaps you … Continue reading Support brettterpstra.com!
Just do it
Are you looking for permission? Look again Lots of people I know look around frantically for someone to give them permission. Permission for almost anything in their lives. Such an attitude is a great way of avoiding the responsibility of doing anything at all with your life. But of course it also helps you avoid … Continue reading Just do it
Delegation versus empowerment
A continuous challenge Delegation is a continuous challenge for quite a few managers. Especially when they need to delegate critical tasks under their direct responsibility, the threshold to delegation can become very high. I have known and still know a lot of managers that would rather do the work themselves under those circumstances. Delegation failures … Continue reading Delegation versus empowerment
Consulting commoditization – a follow-up
I just discovered this article by Garrett Gitchell on his Horizontal Change blog. It mentions an article I've written a while back and provides a set of highly relevant comments in reaction. The site provides good, concise and wonderfully opinionated (I should recognize opinionated when I see it, right) writing on consulting and other interesting … Continue reading Consulting commoditization – a follow-up
Conducting a yearly 1Password clean-up
Sven Fechner has provided a short and as usual concise description of a key to do if you are a 1Password user. If you are not a 1Password user, you should become one ASAP. It is the best cross-platform program out there to securely manage your passwords. Thanks Sven! I'm on it.
Exploring The Black Box 