Personal MBA: Finding Time

Josh Kaufman at the Personal MBA has a post about finding time. Josh echoes my own thoughts on the issue. You don’t make time; you take it. Sometimes taking time is like hammering a square peg in a round hole, but it HAS to be forced. Have you ever been required to attend a pointless [...]

Lifehacker: Do You Snooze?

Lifehacker has a survey posted with a blog entry yesterday. It asks the question: Do you Snooze? Well, do you? Do you hit the snooze button? I used to. I can remember in high school, I’d set highly ambitious goals to get out of bed early. Then I’d hit snooze every 9 minutes for the [...]

How To Use A Daily Capture Mind Map

Way back in September, I wrote a post about using a concept called a Daily Capture Mind Map. It was to address a serious vulnerability in my own productivity system. For the most part, it worked really well. I began using Mind Manger for iPhone. I kept this map on it. I treated this as [...]

Congrats to Brad Isaac! 80% of Success is Just Showing Up

Congratulations to Brad Isaac, who had an essay make it into a Tom Peters book! Brad wrote an essay a while back (I remember reading it) about how 80% of success is just showing up. You can download a .pdf of the relevant pages from Brad's post. This came at a great time, as I'm [...]

What Exacly Is A Clear Vision?

UPDATE 15 MAR 19: I originally wrote this post on my iPhone. I'm sorry that it quadruple posted, and that it took me several days to discover and fix it. I had trouble with TypePad's iPhone client. I thought it was timing out. I tried to post, and the client crashed. Then I brought it [...]

Free Tony Robbins “Awaken the Giant Within” eBook and Audiobook Download

I came across this recently. A former Tony Robbins trainer is offering both the eBook and Audiobook versions of "Awaken the Giant Within" for free. I don't know much about Tony Robbins. I know people who are thrilled with him. If you're into Tony and don't have this book, here's your chance.

How To Achieve Your Goals: Write Them Every Day

Somewhere in the last two weeks, I came across a tip Brian Tracy put in his email about writing your goals down every day. I saved the email for later, and decided to follow the tip. Somehow, my brain remembered it as “Write your top 10 goals down every morning”, so I began that day. [...]

The Most Useless Career Advice

There’s a piece of career advice going around lately that I find useless. It’s comparable to frugality tips like “Just spend less than you make” or health tips like “Just burn more calories than you eat”. It’s not that the advice isn’t sound in at least a few ways. It’s just that it’s what everybody [...]

Busy Is A Form Of Laziness?

I can’t explain why, but the last week I’ve become obssessed with The Four Hour Work Week. If you haven’t read the book, get it. I’ve listened to the audiobook 3 1/2 times in the last week. I guess I’m hoping something will click and I’ll be on my way to not having to work [...]

Pareto Analysis

Have you ever heard of the Pareto Principle? Pareto was an Italian economist who came up with an analysis stating that 20% of the people held 80% of the wealth. Since then, the Pareto Principle has been applied in a lot of ways. I commonly hear about it in books and on websites related to [...]