Right now I have a lot of things going on. These things are on my mind a lot and it is affecting my efforts to get to 30 blog posts. The past few days I have felt more of an obligation to write than in the past. I don’t want to write, I want to [...]
Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category
Importance of Having Goals
Posted in Productivity, tagged Adversity, goals on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You Know That, But Do You Do That?
Posted in Productivity, tagged action on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Common sense in not so common.” –Voltaire
You know what to do. You don’t need me. You know the things you need to accomplish to make your life better. The question is do you do it? Do you take common sense and turn it into common action?
Blogging Hack: Ideas for Stats
Posted in Blogging, Productivity, tagged Blogging, Productivity on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who else is a stat-a-holic? Since I started blogging I’m more consistent at checking my stats than I am at writing content. There is little chance that I am going to suppress my urge to stat watch. It’s too tempting and whenever I post an article it’s just a button away, I’m not nearly strong [...]
Want to Make a Million Dollars?
Posted in Productivity, tagged gtd, ideas on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ideas are worth gold. Notebooks are good for jotting ideas. However, storing your ideas in a notebook is like storing money in the coffee can in the cupboard, not very effective. Do something with your notes. Turn them into action.
We fill notebooks with ideas, and the ideas stay in the notebooks. Shame on us. [...]
The Perfect Illusion
Posted in Productivity, tagged action, courage, procrastinate on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” – J.D. Roth
There is a perfect illusion that we feed ourselves that keeps us in our safe zone. By maintaining this illusion we can live in our safe little bubbles and not risk ourselves. The illusion is that there is some ‘perfect moment’ to act; that there [...]
Daily Action Required
Posted in Productivity, tagged Life, Productivity, reward on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chiseling Stone
“What we do in life, echoes in eternity” – Gladiator
A masterpiece isn’t created by hacking away at a stone. It takes time and energy. One tap of the chisel does not create the fracture. A constant tapping is needed.
Such is our daily existence. Small, daily actions create tremendous rewards. You wouldn’t think reading daily [...]
Having Fun With Brainstorming
Posted in Productivity, tagged brainstorm, Productivity on November 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love to brainstorm. There is nothing like sitting down for 20 minutes and a goldmine of ideas down pour onto paper. I get a good feeling after I brainstorm on something. Here are a few basic rules I follow when I am Brainstorming.
Schedule a separate time
Brainstorming should not be on your to do list. [...]
Assistant Self/Boss Self
Posted in Productivity, tagged Productivity on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My major focus in 2008 has been to be more productive. In fact it’s my goal for this year. Yes I know it’s a terrible goal, no date, no real way to measure, but a bad goal is better than no goal at all, and more importantly it’s working for me. My main source of [...]
Arguing With Myself
Posted in General, Productivity, tagged Conscience on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Responsibility is the price of greatness.” -Winston Churchill
I argue with myself all the time. I have mini discussions over decisions I want to make, plans I am making, and things I want to do, among other things. I am completely fine with this. We all talk to ourselves to some degree. One side of the [...]
Reaching My Goal
Posted in Productivity, tagged goals on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post is number 30. Not that I’ve posted so far, but that I’ve written in the month of October. When I got back from a vacation to Washington state, I decided I really wanted to write the blog. It is something that I have tried before but never done well. This time I didn’t [...]
