People often talk about turning their life around. Making a 180 degree turn. Really? Seems to me that means you went right back where you came from. Me, I took a hard right (90 degree turn) about a year ago and am darn glad I did. I was on the wrong path and going either way was not going to get me … [Read more...]
Choose Your Own Message and Share It
Stop letting others choose the messages you hear, read and see each day. Think about how little "good news" is reported on TV, radio or in the newspaper - almost none. Create your own stream. If you aren't already using an RSS newsreader like Google Reader I highly recommend you start. If you … [Read more...]
Vacation From Your One Stress Factor
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...]
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...]
What's the Right Amount of Blogging?
If you are a blogger, this topic is bound to catch a little corner of your brain every now and then. It's also one of those questions that if you asked 10 bloggers you'd get 11 answers. There is no right amount of blogging. There just isn't. I try like heck to post once a day either here, or on the … [Read more...]
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