Michael Specht

Another quick business update.
After a week of getting logos and the like completed the site for my new venture is up and running. Where can it be found? http://inspecht.com.au, http://inspecht.com, http://in.specht.com.au and finally http://specht.com.au also redirects there as well. Right now the site is very basic and more just to get some content out there [...]

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Today is a big day!
My final official day of employment with Nortel, which means my noticed period started 1 month ago. At 10:30am I meet with HR to hand back all of the “corporate items” and move on.
It is 4 years since I wrote my first blog post. That is 1,460 days worth of blogging, [...]

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Over the last couple of days I have been busy trying to get my head around all the things that need to be completed to set up a business, basically LOTS. Some of this process I will put into blog posts over the next couple of weeks, here are the initial items that have been [...]

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This will be a quick post.
I am no long employed at Nortel, long story which I won’t cover here. But the change is going to allow me to do something I have wanted to try for the last 7 years. Setup my own business.
What will the business be?
While the finer details are still being worked [...]

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Over last several months I have gone through several changes in my life which has resulted in me reviewing many things.
I have been struggling with how to conduct this process, but I figured it is a bit like a reboot but I can’t really turn myself off and on again like a computer now can [...]

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I have been watching this meme float around the Internet for a few weeks or is it months, well not to worry, anyways a couple of days ago it hit me when Alison Young tagged me.
So the background/rules:-

Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
People who are tagged need to write a post on [...]

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Over the next couple of weeks I will be up in Sydney to catch up with friends and family. Leaving Melbourne on Christmas Day I will be spending a few days getting to Sydney and will arrive around 27th Dec and staying until 4th Jan.
If you want to catch up drop me a line on [...]

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Earlier today I got told that Marc Orchant has passed away. Marc suffered a massive heart attack last week and never recovered.
Personally I never met Marc but but I was lucky enough to hear him speak about productivity (GTD specifically) on several occasions. He was one of my Twitter friends and to my surprise even [...]

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Long time readers will know that this blog has been a bit of a waste land for a while now. I felt it was about time I informed you as to what has been going on.
Over the last little while my 13 year marriage has fallen apart and just under 3 months ago we separated. [...]

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Right now blogging is a little light on due to many reasons, things should right themselves soon. Having said that the fact of writing one post will probably generate me to post lots more.
Anyway if I don’t post for now, I’m sorry, I will soon.
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