Productivity & Mastery

Exploring intentional productivity, GTD (Getting Things Done), and faith-guided mastery — where purpose meets performance.

  • Of “imbalance by design” & “good distractions”

    Often I need to accept imbalance in my life because of the choices I make. Responding with accepting imbalance can be hard enough, but I sometimes also take the challenge of designing imbalance in my life.

    In this video, I was offering my opinion. Our Mastermind Group members were responding to one member who wasn’t sure he’s doing the right thing taking on a substantial project that’s not in his original areas of focus.

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  • Motivation and Momentum

    Last week one of my Mastermind Group members in our long lunch meetup (every 2 months) suggested that we have an accountability call once a week, where we tell each other our progress of what weekly plan we shared the previous week, then declare the following week’s plan.
     
    I immediately agreed. So he and I will start on 27th May 2022 (Friday) 8am, and every Friday 8am. We invited the other 3 members of the Mastermind Group to join the call, too.
     
    Although I review my monthly plan with my own coach every month, I jumped on this idea from the Mastermind member because my “weekly reviews” that I do by myself have not been consistent, especially with a family emergency I had in April and then Raya (Eid) break in May. I know that my motivation and momentum are at peak when I am consistent with weekly reviews.
     
    In 2019-2020 when a friend and I were building new daily habits for ourselves, we WhatsApp-messaged each other our day’s scores before we go to bed. Sometimes we miss a night, but this went on for about 4 months till we were okay to be on our own. 😊
     
    With my wife, for more than 6 years now we go on regular off-site quarterly retreats that are both a break from home-life and also "review" time. She reviews her past quarter plan and she builds her next quarter plan. As a couple, we also use those retreats to review and plan what we call our Couple Plan of common things between the two of us. ❤️
     
    When lockdown came, physical quarterly retreats had not been possible so we decided to do it every 6 months now. Post-lockdown, we feel once in 6 months is fine because we are at "steady-state" now.
     
    Us doing our couple planning (annual and interim) for me was inspired by my late mentor, who with her husband every Friday night dinner had a ritual of their weekly (individual and couple) reviews. What a ritual!
     
    An “extreme” ritual would be by one of top coaches in the world, Marshall Goldsmith who nightly reports his checklist of questions on a call to someone he hires just to listen! See: https://marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/how-to-get-better-at-almost-anything/


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  • Exploring Self-Directed Learning

     

    LEARNING ALL OVER THE PLACE!


    “What is the biggest challenge in learning?
    – I didn’t know whether I learned enough, I did not systematically apply and learn and review and adjust or look for new information, new experts and whatnot. So I was all over the place.”



    Thank you to Charmaine Yeap Xun Fang for interviewing me for her research title, “Exploring Adult Learner’s Self-Directed Learning Characteristics for Lifelong Learning in Their Professional Career.”

    View the 0.5-hour video of the interview (Exploring Self-Directed Learning) above.

    In the interview I shared how self-directed learning can become highly effective by taking 7 steps: find, inspect, delve, practice, review, achieve, and wrapped in a project management plan!

    I thank again Johan Irwan Kamarozaman for introducing to me the field of “heutagogy” for me to make sense of my self-learning. He shared with me the valuable book, “Self-Determined Learning: Heutagogy in Action” edited by Stewart Hase and Chris Kenyon.

    Another reference that I found is technically detailed, yet a useful book to further guide me in my self-learning: “Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective” by Luc P. Beaudoin.

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    For a longer (1.1-hour) 2020 video of my thoughts on the 7 Steps To Highly Effective Self-Learning, see: https://bit.ly/3M2n2lT

    Happy self-directed learning!

     

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  • “Accelerating Career Growth”

    “Accelerating Career Growth” was the topic that I was interviewed on by Sabrina Alya (https://www.facebook.com/sabrinaa.alyaa) and her colleagues in “University of Malaya Accounting Club” (thank you, UMAC!). I responded to their many questions with my opinions and stories. 😊

    Here is Sabrina & team’s 5-minute excerpt of my responses to a few of the questions.

    The full 50-minute interview is here:
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/7t2ohwpepsr54i4/Mr%20Hasan%203_1%20Zoom.mp4?dl=0

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