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10 Gifts that Mean More Than a Gift 2008-02-13 07:15:24 The world we live in unfortunately runs by a continual and destructive competition to acquire, have and get the best and most of what this material world has to offer. Usually all those things are temporary and never truly add much meaning to one’s life. Unfortunately, those are the things that are usually [...] Read more:Gifts
Preparing for your own performance review. 2008-02-10 07:15:23 I recently published a guest article on DamnGoodManager.com about doing performance review
s as a manager for your direct reports. I suspect I have a lot more readers here who are not managers but do need to prepare for their own performance reviews often. This post is about some tips on how to do [...]
Top 10 Free Productivity Software Tools (Windows - Desktop Utilities) 2008-02-06 07:10:03 This list includes free utilities and software for Windows
that I have used and believe are the best available. If you enjoy having free software on your desktop that can make you more productively, these are perfect for accomplishing that.
These tools are all applications for the desktop. This list doesn’t include any tools [...] Read more:Productivity
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12 Steps to Fast Track Your Career and Life Progress 2008-02-03 07:15:34 The title of this article saying this list is to “Fast Track
” isn’t really true. This list is to provide tips and behaviors to follow that will make a significant difference in how you perceive others, in how they perceive you and will help to make you more successful in your career and other [...] Read more:Career
Goal Setting: Completing and Closing 2008-01-31 07:15:04 Since your now reviewing your goals on a regular basis, the next step is to actually complete them and close them out. Completing
them at this point is simple, its a matter of keeping to the measure you set for that goal and since you’ve kept it up to date and accurate, the measure [...] Read more:Setting
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Goal Setting: Tracking and Monitoring 2008-01-28 07:15:55 Tracking goals is an ongoing process, not a one time thing. This is the time when you are actively working on your goals and it is generally over some long period of time. During that time, its important that goals are not just forgotten. They need to be looked at on a [...] Read more:Setting
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Goal Setting: Setting and Identifying 2008-01-24 07:15:24 Setting goals isn’t easy. Actually, settings great goals isn’t easy. And that is what you want, great goals. Great goals are goals you really desire, have some passion for and will be happy making progress to meet them. If a goal is more about just the end result and you are [...] Read more:Setting
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Goal Setting: Introduction 2008-01-21 07:15:12 OK, I wrote recently about not setting any new year’s resolutions and that was really because resolutions are generally missed, forgotten, ignored and never adjusted. They are not written, planned or even thought about that clearly. They are VERY different from goals. So, I’m going to be exploring goals and goal setting, [...] Read more:Setting
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Managing a healthy Life / Work balance. 2008-01-17 23:40:32 As a manager, I have to balance a lot of things in a given day at work. But to me, the most important thing I need to balance in my life is a healthy
home and work balance. So many people nowadays attach themselves to their work in all facets of their lives [...]
Change the Way You Change Minds 2008-01-16 07:15:29 This is a chapter title of the book, “Influencer” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. So far, I love the book and how it focuses so much on behavior. The quote at this chapter is what I really wanted to share, which is:
There are three kinds of [...] Read more:Change
What is Mountain Unicycling? 2008-01-12 14:10:28 I get a lot of questions from people who have seen my profile online about mountain unicycling and ask what that is all about. So, I thought I’d talk a bit about what mountain unicycling is and what it means to me as well as some pictures and additional links about the sport.
First [...] Read more:Mountain
Book Review: The Google Story 2008-03-17 08:15:37 Author: David Vise
The Google
Story is a great story and covers everything Google has done to be where they are today. Its covers a wide range of everything Google without getting into too much technical detail and at the same time, not focusing entirely on the business or financial side. If you are [...]
Great Blog Resources for Learning 2008-03-18 08:15:52 I just wanted to point out a few articles from several of the blogs I read that have a lot of similar articles and topics as this one. In no particular order:
Find a solution with problem-solving questions from The M.A.P Maker
5 Ways To Become A ‘Giver’ Now! and 9 Great
Tricks to Help You Sleep [...] Read more:Resources
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Passion Enhances Productivity 2008-03-21 08:15:58 Passion is one of those things that can be explored from so many angles. You may be interested in one of my previous articles about finding your passions and expressing your passions if you did not see them. This article looks specifically at how passion enhances productivity. This could be in the workplace [...] Read more:Passion
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Maximize Your Productivity on Your Computer 2008-03-25 08:15:57 Nowadays, people spend a lot of time on computers, whether its for work or at home, its a regular part of life. When you are actually trying to accomplish something on your computer though, its VERY easy to get distracted from your task and find yourself completely off topic or doing something you didn’t [...] Read more:Maximize
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Learning to Handle Compliments 2008-03-28 08:15:27 Compliments are often so rare that people don’t even know how to respond well to them. You often see or hear people make an excuse or immediately negate the compliment. A response such as “No, not this old thing” or “No I don’t, you’re too nice” or even subtle negation such as [...] Read more:Learning
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People are People 2008-03-31 08:15:11 Even though society likes to enforce rules and rights to balance out people in each other’s eyes, it hasn’t worked to ensure that everyone is treated fairly and with the respect and love they each deserve. We judge people every day, we compare ourselves to others, others to others and others to whom we [...]
A Guide to Mastering Your State of Mind 2008-04-03 08:15:54 One of the most impactful things I’ve ever learned is to master the control of my state of mind. I first learned this from Anthony Robbins’ books and audio courses and I’ve since reinforced and enhanced this learning by studying the mind, dreams, and other authors and teachers of the mind and psychology. [...] Read more:Guide
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You Choose Every Response 2008-04-07 08:15:23 I wanted to publish this which originated from my last article about State of Mind , because this is also a technique that really requires you to master your own mind in your own responses in life. Basically this is about how people respond to things in life and I want to help teach [...] Read more:Response
Top 10 Free Internet Software Tools (Windows) 2008-04-11 08:15:10 I’ve posted a list of productivity tools before here that didn’t need the internet to function. They are great tools to make the most use out of your computer. This new list is for all those utilities and applications that either are built for use on the internet or really are needed in [...] Read more:Internet
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Book Review: blink 2008-04-14 08:15:36
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
blink is a very intriguing book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wasn’t exactly blown away by what it really leaves you with though in the sense of what you can learn from it. I guess my thoughts are because the whole book was so focused on such a narrow [...]
The Power of Making Mistakes 2008-04-17 08:15:49 Everyone Makes Mistakes
Accepting the fact that everyone makes mistakes is easier said than done. Everyone is taught their whole lives to NOT make mistakes and have often been trained or re-enforced negatively when a mistake is made. Perfection seems to be the target of most people in their work, relationships and life.
What [...]
Book Review: The Future of Management 2008-04-21 08:15:37 Author: Gary Hamel
As a brief summary, I think the book flap does the best job:
…Hamel argues that organizations need bold management innovation now more than ever. The current management model - centered on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where adaptability and creativity drive business success.
For me, the book is about [...] Read more:Future
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Sharing your opinion reinforces your beliefs 2008-04-24 08:15:48 Anyone who knows me, also knows that I have a strong opinion
on many things. Its not always that I just want to share my opinion but that I’ve learned to use and express my own opinions in order to reinforce my beliefs
in such a strong way that those beliefs are part [...] Read more:Sharing
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32 Ways to Reduce Your Energy Usage 2008-04-28 08:15:13 One of the things that is starting to have a lot more press and importance in people’s lives over the last couple years is that of energy reduction. This is because of more attention to global warming and new advances in renewable energies just starting to be pushed into the mainstream. I think [...] Read more:Energy
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Its not the knowledge, its the practice! 2008-05-01 08:15:33 Obviously I write a lot of articles about learning things on this site. Learning is a great way to gain knowledge and you probably already know if you read many of my articles that I like to also talk about what you can actually do with that information or what steps you can [...]
Everyday Accountability Improves the world! 2008-05-05 08:15:15 Accountability is something often talked about in business and expected between workers yet it is ignored by most in the rest of our lives. We do whatever we want in our independent little pieces of this world yet do a lot of complaining and arguing about all the bad things going on in the [...] Read more:Accountability
Advantages of Storytelling 2008-05-08 08:15:35 Storytelling has a lot of different ways to look at it. It could be in the sense of not being truthful, expanding on something that isn’t real, it can be used to one’s advantage or to shift a real experience into something more imaginable and it can even be based on nothing but a [...] Read more:Advantages
Beliefs: They’re Entirely Yours to Control 2008-05-13 08:15:03 Whatever you believe, you are right in that. Everything is what you believe and everything you do is because of your beliefs. So, if you want to change the things you do (to get different results) then it all leads back to your beliefs. This article covers a few different angles of beliefs [...] Read more:Yours
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Book Review: The Universe in a Single Atom 2008-05-17 08:15:10 Author: Dalai Lama
There is no doubt in my mind now after finishing listening to this book as to why so many others have rated it so high. It is an excellent book. Its thought provoking, insightful and a joy to read. There [...] Read more:Universe
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