I finished up The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice, by Todd Henry, recently. I can’t recommend this book enough. My feeling though, is a book of this type can be seen as great or not depending on where you are with your knowledge of the subject at the moment. This one struck (me) while the… Continue reading Book Review: The Accidental Creative How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice
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Book Review: Find Your Focus Zone: An Effective New Plan to Defeat Distraction and Overload
I recently finished up Find Your Focus Zone: An Effective New Plan to Defeat Distraction and Overload by Lucy Jo Palladino. While it got great reviews on Amazon, I don’t recommend it. I was expecting a lot more detailed and thorough strategies and exercises to combat distraction. I guess every author comes up with some kind of analogy to build… Continue reading Book Review: Find Your Focus Zone: An Effective New Plan to Defeat Distraction and Overload
Healthy Living Checklist
In my last post I mentioned a “healthy living” checklist. I don’t really have one, well until now I guess. Over the last few years I’ve been tackling one at a time. Some I’ve been on-again/off-again with, but enough discipline has started to set in so that some are permanent. The goal being all permanent of course. Here is the… Continue reading Healthy Living Checklist
Getting Things Done
Pretty strong statement, no? In an effort to develop my blog more, I decided to post some of my favorite things. What’s this have to do with Getting Things Done? Well it’s a book, as well as an entire productivity principle, by David Allen. I’m a fan and have made GTD a part of my… Continue reading Getting Things Done
Fear of Missing Out
I wrote on my personal blog about a “30 day challenge,” where I stopped going to twitter, google plus, and some other social media sites, blogs and message boards for 30 days. It was surprisingly easy. What that lesson taught me, and what’s covered in the book Find Your Focus Zone, is that you shouldn’t fear… Continue reading Fear of Missing Out
Speaking of finishing…
This is sort-of follow up to my last post about this summer being about finishing projects, getting ideas off the ground, etc. Already I feel better. In the GTD sense, I think I’ve mastered the day to day, week to week, month to month, things that have to get done. What was seeming to escape… Continue reading Speaking of finishing…
Summer 2010 is going to be about finishing
For someone who’s keenly interested in personal productivity, I have a ton of half finished personal projects, house projects, ideas, etc. They have started to creep into my psyche. Now, using the GTD system, at least they are all tracked. Too bad they’ve all been on a quasi “someday-maybe” list. Looking at all the “unfulfilled commitments” at once… Continue reading Summer 2010 is going to be about finishing
Just Execute!
Back when I was a kid, I had a disdain for anyone who would criticize athletes, coaches, and leaders. My underlying feeling was, “if you can do it better, then why don’t you go do it yourself.” That kind of wore off, especially the view towards professional athletes. But a bit of it remains in… Continue reading Just Execute!
What I’ve Been Working On, What I’ve Been Doing and Learning
Besides my very first post, I haven’t blogged much about work. So here goes. I have a passion for online marketing. I kind of fell into it back when I worked at The Foundation Center. They needed someone to manage a lot of the nuts and bolts of the online marketing program, which was ramping… Continue reading What I’ve Been Working On, What I’ve Been Doing and Learning
Visualizing a Trillion Smackaroos
I’m a very visual person. Show me charts and graphs all day long. I was taken aback when I saw this: Visualizing a Trillion: Just How Big That Number Is? Think about that when you hear “trillion” thrown around so casually by our government.