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Life Design – Lessons Learned (by accident)

By on Thursday, May 31st, 2012 | No Comments

As mentioned earlier, an external hard drive failed. The backup service I used – I must have set it up wrong because it didn’t back up what I thought I was backing up.  My mistake and the first… Lesson Learned: Verify that systems are working the way you think they should be working. And if […]

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Some Criteria For Keeping Stuff

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I’m continuing the theme begun in the last entry, that I want to travel through life more lightly; not be a librarian – or worse, , a museum curator. I therefore must jettison a lot of the stuff that I’ve accumulated over the years. However, much as I want to travel lightly, I can’t just […]

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How to plan backwards

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When I am at my most productive, it is because I have planned backwards. That is, I have a goal in mind and then I think through what it takes to get there. You CAN do this thought exercise by goring forward in time – from where you are right now to where you want […]

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New Directive: Travel Through Life Lightly

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When I travel to a different city, I prefer to travel light. That means not carrying a bunch of extra stuff just because “I might need it.” This is the complete opposite of how I have lived my life generally. I have lived it as if I live here, and “here” is a permanent location, […]

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The Week Behind

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In the previous entry, I said that I’d try to spread out my posts throughout the week ahead. Here it is; time’s up, and I’m doing it again – clustering them all at once. And yet, despite this, I feel a good sense of achievement. The image for this post tells the tale. My hard […]

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Using Nanogoals

By on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 | No Comments

Do you sometimes find your motivation lacking relative to making your day worthwhile? Do you find it difficult ot focus on goals for the day or even for an hour? Here’s a trick that has helped me on more than one occasion: nanogoals. What are nanogoals? Just like what nano sounds like: goals that are […]

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“Oh Gawwwd! I made a mistake!”

By on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 | No Comments

How can a mistake be a happy mistake? In my previous post, I created a video on self-discipline. In the process of creating it, I made a big mistake. Can you tell where it was? If you guessed in the middle between the general discussion and the more personal discussion, you’d be right. I don’t […]

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The Power of Self-Discipline

By on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 | No Comments

There is great power in self-discipline. Opportunities and necessities – both call for – well watch this very short video and ask yourself where self-discipline can serve you well. Can you recall instances in your life where you missed an opportunity because you didn’t exercise the self-discipline that would have prepared you? Can you do […]

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Common Sense about Gold, etc.

By on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

After an hour-long discussion with a friend, where he tried to convince me that I should be buying gold, I quickly came to see that I should decline. This short video tells you why. Note: I’m not a financial adviser. You are presumed to have the intelligence to know the difference between opinion and fact. […]

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How I Gained 2 Productive Hours a Day – For Free!

By on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | No Comments

I have gained two hours a day in productive time – for free.  It was free and has made my life a lot easier. If you habitually waste time in the same way I do: spending time on websites (political sites, various “interesting” forums that have nothing to do with your goals, etc.), you will […]

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