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Daniel Coulton-Shaw

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Heavy Weather Sailing (Added to notion)

Use this handy checklist to be dependable in heavy weather sailing:

  • Plot position at first sign of worsening visibility
  • Maintain plot e.g. with GPS
  • Hoist radar reflector if not permanently rigged
  • Put on life-jackets and safety harnesses
  • Take seasickness tablets if required
  • Secure loose gear on deck and below
  • decrease the area of the mainsail using reefs. (I usually take in one more than immediately required or simply drop the mainsail, and use the Genoa to get ahead)
  • Prepare simple food in accessible locker (it’s tough getting at the food and a boiling kettle in a storm)
  • Pre-plan navigation and escape routes

Filed Under: Lists, Sailing

The Priority List

What should you do next?

Is it better to email an existing customer, send a brochure to a prospect or improve your product a bit? Should you tweet or post a new blog post? Should you have a meeting to coordinate your team or spend ten minutes returning phone calls instead? Here’s where a priority list comes in handy.

Knowing what to do next is an unheralded skill, something successful people do really well and others struggle with.

How do you decide what to do next?

Make a Priority List

Without a priority list, you can see how making intelligent decisions is impossible, so we resort to confusing activity with productivity.

Back to work: do you have a list? Have you figured out which metric you’re trying to improve? Can you measure the impact of the choices you make all day?

I see this mistake in business all the time. Assume for a moment that your goal is to maximize profit. Why then would you spend most of your time tweaking existing deals (looking for a 3% improvement in yield) instead of spending the same time and effort doing new, game-changing deals?

Inspired By Seth Godin.

Filed Under: Lists, Productivity

Top 10 winners characteristics

1. recognising that struggle is an everyday challenge for us all – winners are not in a stress-free zone, they simply know how to deal with it
2. accepting 100% responsibility for everything – no blame cultures
3. activity – relentless, never-ending activity
4. selling what’s selling to the people who are buying it
5. a clear vision of where they want to be in 3 years
6. translated into a plan of action
7. and regular 90-day goals
8. the ability to delegate effectively and superb time management
9. working harder than anyone else around them – getting up earlier
10. fitness, nutrition and exercise

From @coachbarrow.

Filed Under: Lists

Top 10 Project Creation List (Added to notion)

Here’s a list of project verbs for you. Just fill in the blanks.

What do you need to:

  1. * Finalize…
  2. * Implement…
  3. * Install…
  4. * Look into…
  5. * Resolve…
  6. * Handle…
  7. * Clarify…
  8. * Submit…
  9. * Maximize…
  10. * Organize…

And some that didn’t make the top 10 but are extremely useful triggers…

* Reorganize…
* Publish…
* Ensure…
* Design…
* Complete…
* Update…
* Roll out…
* Set up…

Filed Under: Lists, Thoughts

Top 10 Inspirational People (Added to notion)

A list of those who, now dead or alive, have influenced the way I think & work today…

  1. Anthony Robbins (Personal Development)
  2. David Allen (Getting Things Done)
  3. Michel De Montaigne  (Stoicism)
  4. Seneca The Younger (Stoicism)
  5. Cato The Younger (Stoicism)
  6. Richard Branson (Entrepreneurship)
  7. Stephen Covey (Principles)
  8. Tim Ferriss (Productivity)
  9. Robin Sharma (Leadership)
  10. Jesus Christ (Christianity)

Others include Mr Rogers, R.C. Sproul, Seth Godin, and Chris Barrow…

The corresponding books by many of these outstanding individuals can be found on my top reading list.

Filed Under: Lists

Top 10 Countries To Visit (Added to notion)

A list of the top 10 countries I’ve visited and why:

  1. Austria (Excellent Climbing & Cycling trails)
  2. Croatia (Plitvice Lakes)
  3. Danemark (Tivoli Gardens)
  4. Greece (Santorini)
  5. Kenya (Safaris)
  6. Italy (Via Ferrata – Dolomites)
  7. Scotland (The Highland Way)
  8. Slovenia (White Water Rafting & Canyoning)
  9. Spain & The Canary Islands (Sailing)
  10. Tunisia (the Atlas Mountains & Sahara)

(A top 10 photos from these countries will be added here soon…)

Others include:

Ukraine, Wales, Switzerland, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Morocco, Holland, Hungary, Germany, Gibraltar, France, Estonia, England, Czech Republic, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina,

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