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How to Focus Your Creative Energy to Build that Dream
Managing Time Creatively When it comes to raising barns and building bridges can be a major drain. We have to fit our dream inside, beside, and often outside of the work we do to pay our bills. Just when we find the time to put forward [...][...]

My Scandelous Confession and A Royal Rant About GTD
I have a confession to make. Actually, I’m pretty sure most lovers of GTD have a similar confession, but first I need to start by expressing some assumptions about most of us who are reading this right now (and feel free to challenge any of these via comments). Most of Us… Most of us hav[...]

10 Investments You Should Know
It’s impossible to miss the fact that stocks, real estate and bonds all make for decent investments (at least most of the time). But there are so many different investment options, most of which get minimal marketing. If you want to take a look at a wider variety of options, you should be[...]

Slydial Brings Stealth Messaging to Mobile Apps [Voicemail]
Slydial, the previously mentioned service for skipping right to someone's voicemail when you can't/don't want to actually talk, is pushing out free mobile applications for BlackBerry, Windows Mobile,...[...]

Things It’s Cheaper to Do Yourself
I’m driving down to my mother’s house this morning to work on her roof. Over the years, the shingles have been overrun with moss, so my cousin and I are going to spend a couple of hours scraping the stuff off. We could hire somebody to clean the roof for us, but this seems like [...][...]

Do You Determine Your Beliefs, or Do Your Beliefs Determine You? (Part Two)
Following on from Part One of this three-part series on beliefs. Here is part two: Catholic Craig Growing up in a Catholic home which was regularly frequented by nuns and priests (friends of my folks), attending only Catholic schools, being taught about life (God, religion, marriage, relat[...]

Hot Corners Adds Actions to Desktop Corners [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Hot Corners, a free utility for Windows desktops, adds the "hot corners" abilities of OS X's Expose system to any Windows desktop. The system tray utility can assign actions like...[...]

How To Sell Without Selling Your Soul: Interview Today
In challenging times, having killer sales skills is critical… Problem is, most people hate to sell, even in the best of times. And, most old school pressure tactics are losing not only their appeal, but their effectiveness. Well, what if there was a way to sell more without using the typical s[...]

Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time: We’ll Be Talking about Twitter Apps
JOIN US TONIGHT AT 7PM Let Me Call You Tweetheart Over 200 Twitter Apps!! Oh, and bring example links. The rules are simple — be nice. Do be nice. –ME “Liz” Strauss Related article What is Tuesday Open Comment Night? Share This[...]

Get 3D Compositing Effects in Linux Without Compiz [Linux]
If you'd like to use desktop apps or features that require a 3-D compositing manager but lack the hardware power (or patience) to enable Compiz effects, the Tombuntu blog points out that the standard...[...]

Repost: Get in a Black Friday Mood
I talked about it last year, and I'm going to talk about it again....although this year, you do wonder if the crowds will be out in full force, considering the state of our economy and our pocketbooks. See my blogpost below and check out the forums. I found things on Black Friday and CyberMonday l[...]

5 Amazing ways to drive traffic to your site Part 1- Article Marketing
If you have the best website in the world it’s absolutely no use if you are not getting traffic to it. Over the last few years I have read about and tested some great ways to get traffic to my sites, not just this one. I will show you some great [...][...]

Open Loops: Articles I Found Interesting
Tuesdays are open loop at SimpleProductivity blog. Some oldies but goodies…. Over at Converstations, there is a good reminder (ConverStations: Finding Time for Change to Take) that there is no such thing as instant change. Zen Habits boils down simplicity into its primary rule in “The Fi[...]

Shock Horror! Obama may lose Blackberry priviledges!
There''s a lot of talk at the moment about Barack Obama having to ditch his Blackberry (read the full article " Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? If Obama Has to, Yes He Can " at the New York Times site) when he becomes President and I''m not sure what all the fuss is about. Having recently sat down to[...]

Finding your calling - The Youngest Grocer In America
This inspired the heck out of me: According to Amy Wrzesniewski, an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Yale School of Management, there are three ways you can approach your work. A job - You do it for the money. A career - You do it to advance and get ahead. A calling - You do it beca[...]

Holidays by Hand: Ribbons and Thread
Kelly at Almost Frugal is this week’s Holiday by Hand hostess. I haven’t posted a project this time, because I’m not at all clever with ribbons or thread, but do head over to Almost Frugal to see the cute holiday projects Kelly has assembled. And remember, I’m hosting the Hol[...]

Standing on Shoulders of Giants
You’ve probably read the quote from Isaac Newton: If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. The idea is that we can leverage the work of people before us in order to do things that wouldn’t be possible on our own. If you want to create a new type of time-savin[...]

A time for full-bodied tangents
It’s time for a break from focus. I’ve worked too hard and it’s time for some day-dreaming. When was the last time you rewarded yourself and let your mind wander? I’m not talking about getting lost in a social network, blah. I mean succumbing to an idea or path, and just enjo[...]

Lorem 2 Offers Text Samples for Copy and Paste [Design]
If you've ever mocked up a web page, print publication or set of presentation slides for a project but didn't have any copy text yet, visit Lorem 2. Graphic designers and typographers have long used...[...]

Natural Vision Correction Part 3
This is part 3 of my series on natural vision correction. If you haven’t read the first two parts, please read them via the links below before reading this post. Vision Correction Without Lasik: Exercise Your Eyes Two Principles of Vision Correction without Lasik A good place to start wi[...]