January 12, 2007 Speedlinking

The first two from this weeks links are all about “tricking” yourself into doing what you really want. Some great techniques on how to accomplish what you set out to do from these great blogs -

• Steve Pavlina gives some great ways to achieve your goals by improving your character. The simple technique he writes about can really help to get past problems. What would a person with more X do in my situation?
• Small things matter more than you think. Carmine from Slow Leadership shows how lots of little decisions are “often the key to acting on the bigger choices you want to make about your life.”
• A particular favorite of mine, because so many in the tech world fall into this trap and avoiding it is a great way to stand out by avoiding it – In Oh why won’t they ever learn? Mike Schaffner talks about the trap of becoming annoyed at users because they fail to learn the “obvious.” (Love the new name of your blog!)
• And Business Week wraps it up with some more great ideas about running effective meetings. I love the idea of projecting the meeting notes on a wall during the meeting. But, as Penelope Trunk pointed out in our effective meeting ideas, the trick isn’t how to run a great meeting – it’s getting people to use the “great meeting” techniques in the meetings!