Hindsight is 20/20. As I’ve gotten older I can look back on the younger me. When I do so, I feel a range of emotions: excitement, regret, hope, fear, pain, sorrow, joy. One that has become more prominent, as I’ve worked to be more honest with myself, is the recognition that his hopes and dreams […]
Why did the calendar give up on life? . . . He knew his days were numbered. You may have noticed, I don’t talk about calendars much as a planning tool. The fact is, I think they’re overrated. Having a calendar is good for one thing: making sure you don’t double book yourself. Other than […]
(Get your mind out of the gutter, I’m not talking about that kind of friction.) Friction is the concept in physics that describes the force that resists motion when two surfaces are in contact. Just from that description, and also from colloquial uses of the term, most people have the understanding that friction prevents or […]
I’m writing this at night, and I just planned tomorrow. Over the last few weeks, I’ve gone back and forth on planning my day either the night before, or the morning of. You should do it the night before. You’ve just gone through the day, and you might be tired. But you’re also intimately connected […]
Pain is the most ancient cue. Ever since organisms evolved nerves that could pass messages, they’ve used those nerves to respond to the environment. Over time, brains developed, and some of those messages were interpreted as pain. Pain is how our bodies and brains interpret certain messages from the environment. Specifically, those messages that require […]
Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People was huge in the late 80’s and through the 90’s. While it’s a treasure trove of tried and true principles, there is also value in revisiting them to see if they hold up. I’ve written before about the value of beginning without the end in mind. […]
If it’s a planning workshop, why call it Cue? Cue has many meanings and connotations. All of them relate to the problems Cue is solving. Cue is the metaphor for much of the work you will do while creating the life you want. Cue, n. Anything said or done, on or off stage, that is […]
In yesterday’s email I discovered that Cue is going to be a planning workshop. (Just as an aside, I really did discover this while writing the email, in case it wasn’t obvious. Writing is an amazing activity, and often leads to insights that just cannot be found by merely thinking, even thinking hard, about a […]
Cue is not a daily planner. I’ve already written about how it’s not a todo list. But it’s also not a planner. Let’s step back. I’m a software developer by training and profession. That means I use computers all the time. But guess what? In its original usage, the term “computer” referred to a human […]
When Getting Things Done made its debut in 2001 one of the most popular aspects of the program was a flowchart. This chart walked people through “processing” stuff that comes into their lives. The idea behind the chart was to help you organize all the stuff in your life and put it into systems where […]