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Positive attitude is not permanent.
I spend most of my time as a positive thinker. This is by choice, not by temperament. My nature is to be moody and grouch about what is going wrong in my life. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort.” - Aeschylus I don’t have a naturally sunny disposition. When I think positive, it is because I work at it. Positive thinking is not really that important when you are in a good mood. The most important time to employ [...]
A Rebirth by Fire on #DesireMap Friday
How do you feel about destroying what must be destroyed in your life? A question posed by Danielle LaPorte. Before I jump into my answer to this question, I want to take a moment to savor the brilliance of the way she asked it. Danielle has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, people who love her bold spiritual stance and her poetic perspectives. In addition to all of this, I am in awe of how she asked her audience a [...]
5 Productivity Tools to Beat Procrastination
Productive people make things happen. Procrastinators make good excuses. “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” – Paul Meyer Deadline. The very name sounds menacing and morbid. Many procrastinators can only finish their work under mortal threat. Knowing they will be completely screwed if they don't buckle down and get to work is often the environment they require to buckle down and get to work. The best [...]
No enemies, no drama, and a new place to live.
This is a story about a pedophile I never knew, a landlord I once called a friend, and a family of gypsies escaping into the night. “This is what gypsies do,” my wife said to me as we were packing our sparse possessions into a small caravan of modern-day gypsy wagons. “They pack in the middle of the night, so nobody knows they are leaving.” A happy home. I never wanted to leave Summerland. We lived there for [...]
The Magic of the Internet
I have access to all of the collected information of mankind, and it sits in my hands, in this wizard's tome. Anything I wish to know, any language I wish to speak, any formula discovered by any scientist since the dawn of time, I have it all. This is the age of man where we are all wizards. For generations, our ancestors have fought to retain and collect the small scraps of information they were lucky enough to encounter. If [...]
How To Plan Email Newsletter Campaigns With Trello
For project management, brainstorming, and collaboration, my favorite tool of all time is Trello. Trello is a virtual bulletin board, where you create drag-and-drop lists populated with cards. Every card can have labels, assigned members, checklists, comments, file attachments, and more. Every list lets you drag and drop the cards, allowing you to arrange your ideas in terms of priority, order, feasibility, or any other metric you care to sequence. I use Trello for my blog post content queue, for [...]