One stress factor overwhelms you and drives your professional existence. To take a real vacation you must free yourself from that one stress factor if only for a few days. Clues to identify your one stress factor. You should find yourself putting items related to this factor at the top of you daily … [Read more...]
My One Hour Challenge
I'm on "vacation" this week and promised my wife I'd work less. For an hour I have sat in the hotel lobby and acted on the most important emails from yesterday. My Tips: 1. You only have an hour - stick to it like glue. 2. Spend the first five minutes prioritizing the tasks (For example, my make … [Read more...]
Excuses Can Just Suck It
1. None of us really care about your excuses anyway. 2. You've got great goals you are striving to achieve. 3. Take all the time you spend making excuses and do the work to reach those goals. *** end of post *** Story of the short post above. I was using my offline post editor and it ate my … [Read more...]
The Bloggers Topic Dilemma
Every (not most) blogger I know struggles with the topic dilemma. Do I write the short, raw, shoot from the hip post? Or, do I take the time and write something deep, thoughtful and potentially game changing? The later post style will probably bring us business and potentially put food on the … [Read more...]
Stop Asking for Permission
For the past few weeks I've watched entrepreneurs I consider more successful to see what they are doing differently than me. The answer that hit me, they seldom ask for permission. They get more things done quicker. One of the ways you get things done is to following the old saying "it's easier to … [Read more...]
I'm a Blackberry Addict turned Android Fanatic
Sprint's new htc EVO Android mobile device is now my favorite personal accessory. My Blackberry Curve 8330 sits deactivated, lonely and dejected on the back of my desk. My smartphone love affair began many years ago with a Treo600. I graduated to a Treo 755p and then the Blackberry Curve 8330. … [Read more...]
The Twitter Vacation
It's the opposite of what you think, we are going to tweet....a lot. Tight budgets, saving money, kids in college, etc. have combined to create our Twitter vacation. Roots of the idea. We (@hawtwife and I) decided to be fiscally responsible (unlike our village who is replacing roads unnecessarily … [Read more...]
Keep After Your Masterpieces
Yesterday, while working on an ebook for my ColorMetrix audience the one useful piece of information it will leave them with finally jumped out and bit me. Your masterpieces will take longer. The actual writing of a blog post rarely takes me more than and hour and is quite often done in 20 or 30 … [Read more...]
Play Nice With Others
This was the title of my third slide for a recent presentation. "Play nice with others" ended up being the one thing I left my audience with. Play nice with others. In the context of my presentation referred to ColorMetrix software products being interoperable with other "competitive" products. I … [Read more...]
reThink and unThink to Achieve WordPress Like Success
Matt Mullenweg's success with WordPress has convinced me to unThink "it can't be done." In 2003 Matt (as founding developer) released WordPress which is the platform this web-site and about 202 million others run on. (No I didn't make that number up, it's in the linked Wikipedia article). Matt was … [Read more...]
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