April 2008

What Elephants Can Teach Us About Personal Development

We share something very unique with elephants. Though they’re one of the strongest animals on the planet, elephants can be constrained with the smallest sticks and ropes. In Southeast Asia, elephants are still used as a mode of transportation. Tourist are often amazed at the fact that the elephant handlers use small ropes tied to [...]

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Link Travelogue (Vol. 2)

I’m going to jump on the meme suggested by Chris Brogan and take it one step further. I’m an active commenter, but I haven’t done as many link travologues as I’d like to, so I’ll make up some ground today. 8 Ways to Be Ruthless With Your Time – Lifehack Thursday Bram, who I have [...]

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Does RescueTime Rescue Your Time?

In A Special Theory of Productivity, I mentioned that I that I didn’t think RescueTime worked as a time management solution. That’s too broad and unhelpful of a statement, so I’ll spend some time reviewing RescueTime so you can see how I came to that conclusion. What is RescueTime supposed to do? I’ll give two [...]

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21 Ways to Quickly Short-Circuit a Funk

The situation: you find yourself in a funk. I’m not talking about the Pepe’ Le Pew kind of funk – that just requires the generous application of soap and water. The kind of funk I’m talking about is where you’re almost inexplicably sad, slightly depressed, or down about something. This happens to almost everyone every [...]

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What is Alltop?

The other day I mentioned that Clay Collins made it on Alltop’s Lifehack page. I didn’t do a great job of explaining what Alltop was then, but I wanted to take a second and do so now. Alltop has provided such a great explanation of what they do that I’ll just give a sample from [...]

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Failure is an Opportunity

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others. –Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Commentary: I’ve had a few setbacks this week – good [...]

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Clay made it in!!

I just found out today that your friend and mine, Clay Collins, made it on Alltop’s Lifehack page. I wanted to take a second to cheer him on and give him some gratz love. For those of you who haven’t been following this blogging phenom, his first blog post on TheGrowingLife was on January 24, [...]

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A Special Theory of Productivity

I mentioned after I completed the Daily Productivity Planner that I figured out how to write this post. Life intervened and I lost the muse. I’m currently in the process of reconstructing the train of thought, but it’s going to be rather rough. The hardest part I’m having in articulating the ideas in this post [...]

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Revolution Money Exchange Extension

I wanted to take a second and let everyone know that Revolution Money Exchange extended their signup bonus of $25 to May 15, 2008! As I mentioned earlier, Revolution Money Exchange is a new competitor to Paypal that allows you to send or receive money without being charged. I’ve been really happy with it when [...]

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