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In an online course I'm involved in, as in many self-paced online courses, some participants find themselves feeling behind when they have let a few weeks go by without getting started.
However, instead of getting into the meat of the course, they begin with the warmup lessons -- the lessons that contain no new material and are there mostly for people to get to know each other prior to the release of the "real" lessons.
Read MoreYears ago, I decided to make an album of original songs.
Because I wanted to be able to record at all hours of the day and night, for free, I chose to do virtually all of the performing, engineering, and mixing myself.
Hey, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney did it — why not me? Ha.
The album was my very best work, though still very amateurish.
Read MoreI was away from Maine long enough to appreciate that it isn't just the miserably cold and lonely backwater I had believed it to be as a twenty-four-year-old.
In moving to Atlanta, I was able to see the beauty and specialness of the place I grew up.
I lived in Atlanta long enough to take it for granted. But then I was away long enough to miss its magic, too. Now that I'm back, I'm reveling in the mild weather, the diversity, the density, the tennis and the restaurants.
Read MoreOne of the hard parts about getting stuff done is figuring out the right stuff to do.
But once you've figured out the right stuff to do — or at least one thing in particular — the other hard part is doing it.
If you're struggling with the second part, here are some things that you might try.
Read MoreIt's a metaphor for a metaphor.
If the bottleneck is the part of the bottle that's the narrowest, then in a production setting like a factory, it refers to the stage or element of a system that limits the output.
Like traffic on an on-ramp, unable to flow onto the highway, the inputs get backed up. No matter how much you increase production in other areas of the system, the throughput (and ultimate productivity) will be limited by that bottleneck.
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