How to Use Social Media Sanely

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. We—the bloggers, blog readers, twitterers, people who spend a lot of time on social media—are growing up. Our relationship with social media is maturing. In the beginning, we just played around and drank it all up. But more and more of [...]

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What’s Your “Reason Why”?

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch the video.] People often ask the question “what do I need to do to start this new project or habit?” That’s often the wrong the question. The more informative one is “why do I want to start?” The how-to [...]

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How To Write Brief Emails Without Being A Jerk

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” – Mark Twain At a certain point, you won’t be able to process email the way you used to. I want to be very clear that it’s not a matter of choice – you really won’t be able to [...]

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Work at 85% Capacity with 100% Focus

The key to doing great creative work over the long-haul is to work at 85% capacity with 100% focus. Save a little every day so you can do more over the course of a week.

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How Will You Use The Limited Time You Have?

On the Sunday morning before Thanksgiving, we got word that Angela’s grandmother had died overnight. Her death was completely unexpected – Angela had just talked to her a few days prior and there weren’t any signs that her passing would be soon. One day we went to bed preparing for her family to come here [...]

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Don’t Tweet Away Your Best Ideas

In a recent post, Jonathan Fields asked whether Twitter was the ultimate creation killer. It can be. One of the things I learned during the Oregon Trail Chronicles was that there were a surprising amount of things that I was doing that actually prevented me from doing the things that I was the best at. [...]

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What Are Your Core Activities?

What are your core activities? Do you know how to determine when it’s time to pull your resources in so you can focus on your core activities? Over the course of the year I’ve learned a lot of good lessons about how to manage my Time, Energy, and Attention (TEA). Since we were moving, growing [...]

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Ends Are More Than Endings

“Begin with the end in mind,” is a powerful and simple concept. It’s also frequently misunderstood. The phrase has been in our cultural lexicon for a few millennia, but Dr. Stephen Covey was (perhaps) the first great popularizer of the concept. It’s one of the key habits in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, [...]

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How To Bounce Out Of Bed Every Morning

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tim Brownson. Do you ever have those mornings when you don’t want to get out of bed and you’d rather just roll over and go back to sleep? Does being cocooned in your warm snugly duvet sound much more appealing than getting up? If you dislike your [...]

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