What I Learned From 12 Hours Without Power
Without any warning, on a beautiful late summer afternoon, we lost electric power at our house yesterday, and my home office was affected as well, of course.
After checking to make sure I had in fact
paid the electricity bill, I called down to the local
coffee shop to find out if the outage had taken out
my “outside office” as well.
Between hopes of getting power restored soon,
and being just too lazy to get myself to get out of the house,
I ended up grabbing a note pad and pen, and resorted
to a shady area by the pool to…
…do some brainstorming work – without my computer!
Of course, I felt at first as if the main part of my brain had been
amputated or switched off.
But after a moment of doodleing, my ideas began to
take shape, and I wrote several pages of plans, strategies,
and step-by-step actions that I will need to take to
make my ideas realities.
At the end I worked for only a couple of hours, but I felt that
this were the most productive 2 hours I had worked for a long time.
And furthermore, I made the resolution to schedule at least one hour per day
of creative work without computer. I will keep you posted under the category “productivity”.
Try it yourself sometime, and let me know how it goes for you!
Filed under: Productivity
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Hi Thomas – its very important to stick to the paper plans, I keep having to force myself to go back to them.
BTW I left a comment on the MWA forum in response to your question on real estate investing – if your in the UK we might be able to do something, it would have to be relevant to that market.
If your in the US Bill Crosby is into that sort of stuff
Rgds
Pete
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fortunate turn of events Tom.
I journal daily, this tool is a bit expensive upfront ($250) but well worth the investment. It’s a digital pen that records all of your notes as you write plus the audio if you’re at a seminar or talking about each point you write.
Then you can upload online and watch a video of your notes. Super time saver and totally organized.
http://www.livescribe.com/
Thanks for sharing your insights!
Nicholas
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Funny, I JUST blogged about the importance of ‘time off’, away from the computer to refresh our minds and bodies. I also find that brainstorming away from the computer is great.
I’m glad I stumbled upon your post. It’s a good goal to get away from the computer and do some thinking….
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