Getting Help on Becoming Excellent

Update (September 17th): This class is still open and will remain open for the next five weeks. I’m SO glad I’m in it – I’ve met a lot of great people.) Yesterday I talked about the choice you have to make between being excellent and being comfortable. I gave a lot of general stuff to [...]

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Review: Todoodlist – Crazy Name, Sound Ideas

I have to admit – for the first few months that I saw Todoodlist on other blogs, I thought it was “Todoodlelist.” Under either version, it’s a crazy name. Underlying that crazy name, however, is a sound principle – simple, paper productivity systems are more effective than complex, computer-based ones. Readers who have stuck around [...]

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Is Backpack Worth the Time and Money?

The short answer: For most users, Backpack is worth the time and money. Backpack is an online service offered by 37Signals that makes organizing your information incredibly easy. Backpack lets you make pages which can contain any combination of notes, to-dos, images, files, etc. You can keep these pages to yourself or share them with [...]

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How to Avoid Being an Idiot and Show Your Lady You Love Her on a Big Day

Last Wednesday was, hands down, the best day I have ever had in Nebraska. It was my five year anniversary with my lovely wife, Angela, and boy, was it nice. Especially considering how much of an idiot I was. See, I’m horrible at Big Days, and I’m fortunate enough to have several of them to [...]

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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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Make $25 in 3 Minutes, Right Now

There’s a new money transfer game in town besides Paypal, and they want your membership so much so that they are giving $25 for you just to sign up. There are no strings attached, no obligations to use the service, no trial offers that you need to remember to quit, and the process is really [...]

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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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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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