February 2008

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I’m starting to focus more on getting new readers for this blog, and I’ve run into the same wall that new bloggers often run into. It goes about like this: In order to get traffic, you have to be start getting links and readers. But to get links and readers, you have to have traffic. [...]

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The 3 Key Ideas from Aristotle That Will Help You Flourish

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Aristotelian ethics here lately…partly due to me teaching it a few weeks ago but even more so due to me thinking about personal development issues. The concept “flourish” has become the predominant concept that’s began to infuse most of my thinking about GTD, personal development, and life, [...]

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Is It Worth Keeping All of These Stupid Boxes?

One of my projects got stalled Tuesday, so while I was waiting on the reviewers to get back to me (turned out they never did and I could have been done much sooner), I started pushing the ball forward on the Basement Project (Angela and I have been finishing our basement for some time now.) [...]

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How to Lead People for Results – Lifehack.org

Joel over at Lifehack gives a bit longer survey of good leadership traits. It seemed to me that he hit all of the major points I talked about in yesterday’s post, sans the picture with the stooge in glasses. Apparently leadership is on the hive brain.

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What Type of Boss Do You Have?

Throughout my military career, I’ve run into many different kinds of leaders. It’s hard to really specify what exactly makes a good leader, but I have a very quick saying that helps me gauge them: “Some leaders you want to sit at the dinner table with, but you wouldn’t want to go to war with [...]

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7 Things We Fight That Make Life Harder

photo credit: redjar Yesterday, Angela and I went ice skating. Being poor and from the South, I never learned to ice skate as a kid, and this was something like the third time I’ve been. Needless to say, I looked like a very large, uncoordinated oaf sliding on marbles. After we had been skating for [...]

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Thank You Commenters and Readers

Some bloggers spend a long time writing into the void when they first get their site up and going. They forget that people aren’t searching for them; rather, they’re searching for content. And it’s hard to get your content read at the beginning because, realistically, other bloggers who are more established are already saying what [...]

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Lifehack, The Power of Rituals, and Flourishing

Scott over at Lifehack recently wrote about the rituals and how they help maximize time. There are two rituals that I think are especially important: waking up and working. The Wake Up Ritual Few things make as much of an impact on the day as when and how you wake up. Fighting with the alarm [...]

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Three Reasons Why I Like Pandora

I was stumbling recently and came across Pandora, a website that streams free music and analyzes, groups, and sorts the music based upon the song’s attributes. I absolutely love it. Here’s why: Find new music by focusing on artists you know and love. Most of us have a few staple artists that we listen to [...]

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