Archive for January, 2008
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Why Blog
Over at Lifehack they have an article up about the reasons blogging will improve your 2008. Curious, especially in light of my attempt to blog 961 posts this month, I decided to scroll through their reasons and see how many match my own. On a scale of 1-5, 5 being a strong match to one [...]
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Anaphora
I learned two new words today – anaphora and epiphora.
Anaphora - The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs; for example, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we [...]
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Inspirational Quotes
I’m always on the hunt for good sources of inspirational quotes, especially more obscure ones I may not have come across on twenty quote sites already. This list of 50 inspirational quotes contains many that are new to me, including a few I really enjoyed:
“If you change the way you look at things, the things [...]
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
Nothing is Everything
“If less is more, then nothing is everything.” – from the blog article The Zen of Attraction by Graham English
This is a really nice summary of many things I try to make sure are in my heart and habits from day to day. I’m particularly passionate about:
Promise Nothing
Just do what you most enjoy doing.
Hidden benefit: [...]
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Saturday, January 5th, 2008
Why We Behave Dumb
Why do we sometimes behave in dumb or irrational ways?
The answer quite often is because of other people – something social psychologists have comprehensively shown.
The studies linked to within the article go on to delve deeply into this concept, but what a lot comes down to for me is this: you are not what people [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Motivation by Iain Hamp
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Worth at a Glance
This nice, well thought out tool by David Seah to determine and visually represent the worth of accomplishing a particular goal versus the others on your list, so as to prioritize time more effectively. I’ve created similar tools in Excel for my personal use, and certainly his criteria don’t work very well for the things [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Organization, Productivity, Tasks by Iain Hamp
Friday, January 4th, 2008
To Do Lists
Lifehack.org holds within its grasp the penultimate blog post on how to make the most of to do lists – how to write them, how to make them work, how to keep doing them and make it a habit. I’ll be spending some time digging through this entry.
Also, for those who joke about people who [...]
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
Atomic Now
“The present moment is always small in the sense that it is always simple, but concealed within it lies the greatest power. Like the atom, it is one of the smallest things yet contains enormous power.” – Eckhart Tolle
This is one of the lessons I am particularly desperate in somehow providing a mentee when I’m [...]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Who Knows You
Seth Godin had two related posts recently, both on the importance of who you know. The first regarded self promotion versus word of mouth/buzz created by others.
The truism of the web: people talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
The second post took a different tact/approach to the old saw that it’s [...]
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Mixing Business With Danger
I have a little LLC I formed a few years ago to make sure I kept my business separate from everything else, financially and legally speaking. I was glad that a wise friend walked me through that process, many of the pitfalls that are easily avoided IF you know about them. This article regarding Accounting [...]