I recently read the book “Happy For No Reason” by Marci Shimoff. The many charts about choosing expansion over contraction were terrific. I was inspired to put them on a photo cube template from HP to make a Happy For…
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A Tool for Clear Purpose
This is a wonderful tool to clarify what you want to do with your life: Pave Your Life Roadmap at Idea Sandbox Don’t miss: The radar diagram in pdf-a visual map of how you are doing at filling your life…
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Tracking loving actions
Personal Development System Part Two: Relationship Tracker Cards relationshipset.pdf This set includes four cards: 1. list your main primary and secondary relationships. 2. fill out a contact card for each of the relationships you listed. 3. conversation starter card. 4.…
Posted in love & relationships, personal development
Regularly scheduled maintenance
Maintenance may not be generally considered sexy…but perhaps it should be. That which is not maintained disintegrates. This applies to everything…a house, a car, a business, a relationship. This is why we must make choices about what we will invest…
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Have you mastered productivity?
To achieve a black belt level of productivity, there are eleven skills to master. Download the Productivity Levels pdf Twelve important skills to master for productivity: 1. Capturing – add appointments, tasks, and ideas to a calendar or system 2.…
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Marketing U: four steps to Discover, Define, Design, and Deliver a personal brand
When networking, interviewing for a job, or pitching an idea to a supervisor or investor, it’s important to communicate the benefit you provide. A personal brand needs to be: Compelling, Clear, Creative, and Consistent. Marketing is about creating interest in…
You might be a digital packrat if…
you bookmarked this article at Zen Habits. (I did)
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Clues to Purpose
Purpose. It’s what lights up your face, it’s what makes it a joy to get up in the morning. It’s what you are excited about sharing with others and what you enthusiastically enjoy talking about. Purpose is about knowing what…
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Links for 7-19-07
A sentence from the book Words That Work – It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz: “Education must precede motivation, and even information.” Idea Sandbox outlines the 7 Levels of Change based on the…
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Productivity adds up
In Can Life Really Be Balanced? at Your Life. Organized., Monica Ricci does some math: Total hours in a week: 168 Subtract hours for the following: Sleep: (7 hours average per night) 49 Work: 40 Commuting: 10 Meals: 10 Home…
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Daily PlanIt 