Best Of…
Here are some of the posts from Never the Same River Twice that visitors have found the most useful. Reading through these posts is a great way to scan the best content of this blog.
4-Hour Workweek
I’ve written quite a few posts about this New York Times best-selling book and blogosphere phenomenon. If you dream of escaping the 9-5 or just simplifying your life, you might enjoy these posts.
Do You Want to Work a 4-Hour Workweek? & Elimination and Outsourcing Closer to Home describe my first steps working toward some of the goals of the 4-Hour Workweek. Like many people, I’ve had some missteps and false starts in the journey and these posts share a few.
The My 4-Hour Workweek series picks up where the previous posts left off.
- My 4-Hour Workweek: A Series
- My 4 Hour Workweek: I Get My VAs For Free
- My 4 Hour Workweek: Since I Can’t Buy a Robot Maid
Change Management
The heart of this blog is change management theory and techniques. Many of these posts apply to individuals looking for ways to make positive changes in their lives as well as employees and managers of organizations in the process of enacting changes.
- Not All Change is Created Equal – Multiple Levels of Change
- Suffer More to Change Faster
- Get Excited to Change Faster
- What is Adaptive Capacity?
- What is a Theory of Change?
- How to do Scenario Planning
Personal Development
Many people find their way to this site looking for ways to make lasting changes in their own lives. Here are just a few of the posts I’ve written on this topic.
- What is Personal Development?
- Recipe for a Personal Development Weekend
- Four Steps to a Year End Check-up
- What is Happiness?
Sliding Scales of Change Series
The Sliding Scales of Change Series looks at different options you can choose on the “menu” of change. By thinking about all of these options you can develop a change strategy that is most appropriate for you or your organization.
- Sliding Scales of Change
- Sliding Scales – Change vs. Accept It As It Is
- Sliding Scales – Rapid vs. Gradual Change
- Sliding Scales – Creative Destruction vs. Creative Recombination
- Sliding Scales – Putting it All Together
SmallChange Series
The SmallChange Series challenges you to make one small change that will improve you life in the course of a weekend. Some of the most popular suggested changes have been:
About Maria
If you are just itching to find out more about the person steering this ship, read my autobiographical mini-series:
