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My New Years Resolution, Resist Rigidness and Black and White Thinking

Well it is the beginning of February and after much thought I have decided my new years resolution. Anyone that knows me expected to see a long list of resolutions or “goals” from me this year, as did I. There are many things that I want to do, experience and accomplish this year. […]

News Flash: I don’t watch or read the news

Alternate title: Pick up todays post to learn why not not reading the news could kill you or your family.
The mainstream news is just not worth my time or stress level. To be honest I have not really made a major effort to go on a news diet, it just kinda happened naturally as I […]

Feel better about what you do this year…. no matter what you do!

One of my favorite productivity sites is 43folders.com, to which you can find articles ranging from how to organize your receipts to how to keep your inbox under control, all around the notion of maximum productivity. Well a few days ago there was a post on the site that went completely against […]

GTD Roadmap Seminar, Seattle WA

Friday I went to the coolest seminar ever, the GTD Roadmap by David Allen. For those who don’t know GTD is short for Getting Things Done which is a methodology created by David Allen that simply put helps you get more done, which in turn helps you reach your goals, which in turn helps […]

How I Turned Sucky Sundays into Happy Ice Cream Sundaes

photo courtesy of C.J.M

For Monday through Friday workers Sundays just suck. I mean yeah, you don’t have to work, but you know you have to the next day, and that little fact justs gnaws at you. You know you can’t stay up late, you know that there is probably stuff that needs to be […]

How Thinking of Nothing Produced A Surge of Creative Thought and Energy

or my first time practicing meditation…

photo courtesy of flickr user Daryl Mitchell
My definition of meditation is to think of nothing for an extended period of time.
Today was an especially long day, and when I finally walked in the door I decided that I was just going to take a bath and go to bed. […]

Hacking and Tracking Miles Per Gallon (MPG) - Follow up

Well I have been tracking my MPG for over a month now using mymilemarker.com and am very impressed with the my MPG hacking abilities and this cool little website.
In the course of the month my average MPG has always stayed above 20MPG and even been as good as 24MPG for the WHOLE TANK! […]

High tolerance of fear and rejection = success

At so many times throughout my life I have not done something out of fear of rejection or embarrassment. Over the course of the last few years I have realized that the people that are successful are the ones that speak up and are not afraid to hear the word “NO”.
I have recently starting […]

MITs (Most Important Things) List

For the month of August I am going to continue with a did-do list. However, this month I am going to mend the did-do idea with MITs (Most Important Things). MITs are basically just 1-3 things that absolutely MUST BE DONE, NO EXCEPTIONS! So… the key to using the MITs list is that you do […]

My July Did-Do List

I mentioned in a previous post the wonders of a did-do list. Well just for fun I thought I could post my did-do list to better explain how I use it. Basically when I do anything that that gives me that “one thing down” feeling I make note of it. The point of […]