I think the first time someone made a crack about my receding hairline was over the winter break my freshman year of college. That would have been December of 1994 and it was probably …
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Complacency is an insidious vice. When things feel okay, when you’re not feeling a sense of urgency, in it creeps. And the next thing you know you look around and realize that fixing …
Every now and then you find a company that still knows what “customer service” means. After reading a mountain of positive things about bag maker Timbuk2 I recently decided to replace my aging messenger …
Today is my third day working at a standing desk. I had originally thought I would stand for a couple of hours – until my laptop battery died – and then switch back to …
For a long time now I’ve read all about the benefits of standing while working. I’ve wanted to get a standing desk for a long time, but when I priced out real honest-to-goodness standing …
I had an interesting thing happen today, someone used the contact form on this web site and asked me if I would be interested in selling a blog posting and/or a text link.
I’ve written in …
The word “only” has been a good friend of mine. I’ve used it to justify a lot of dumb expenses in my life. I say things like, “Hey, adding HBO and Showtime to …
I’m “stuff” person…always have been. It’s not that I want to acquire stuff for the purpose of just acquiring it; I’m the kind of person who gets exciting by something, and then has to …
This is a unique article – a bit rant and a bit non-productivity – but I’ll try to bring it around to the purpose and mission of this site, but forgive me if it misses …
We’ve all heard the quote (often mis-attributed to Dr. W. Edwards Deming) that…”you can’t manage what you don’t measure.”
When working on reaching your goals (you do set SMART goals right?) you have to monitor and …
Last month I wrote an article titled What’s coming in your future?. In it, I described how a quote from David Allen’s book Ready for Anything had really resonated with me.
I came into the …
I recently sat down with Azher Khan of Calderon Textiles to interview him about his thoughts on success, goals, and self-development.
He is one of three share holders of Calderon Textiles in Indianapolis, Indiana and has …
Back in June I was re-reading “Ready for Anything” by David Allen and on the first page of the first chapter he writes:
“Something is coming – probably within a few days – that’s going to …
I enjoy motivational quotes and things which keep me mindful of staying on-track to improve myself and develop new skills.
At my office I had some dead space on a cork board since I use whiteboards …
A co-worker and I were recently talking movies. Specifically what we had coming from Netflix. I mentioned a few movies he wasn’t familiar with and he asked if I knew of any way …
Have you heard about Sandy? She’s a virtual assistant over at iwantsandy.com. When I first heard about “her” I thought, “What a great idea!” and signed up for a beta account.
After a …
