Perfecting the Art of Being Imperfect

February 8, 2010

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Hi, my name is Mark, and I’m a perfectaholic. As long as I can remember, I’ve been a perfectionist. I’m not sure whether it’s nature or nurture. Was I born this way? Was I somehow conditioned to be this way? It doesn’t really matter. It is what it is, and I have to deal [...]

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The Week in Review

February 5, 2010

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This Week’s Posts
02/01/10 – Keep Score by Tracking Your Net Worth
02/02/10 – Lessons from the Movie Groundhog Day
02/03/10 – Are Your Priorities Really a Priority?
02/04/10 – Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Using Debt Wisely
From around the Web
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing – How Google sets goals and measures success
OPEN Forum – [...]

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Increase Your Wealth and Happiness by Using Debt Wisely

February 4, 2010

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Here in the United States, we get bombarded with news stories about consumer debt, mortgage debt, business debt, and government debt. Unfortunately, these stories are always negative. We hear about record numbers of bankruptcies, foreclosures, destroyed lives, divorces, and on and on. In a country as wealthy as the United States, it is such [...]

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Are Your Priorities Really a Priority?

February 3, 2010

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Be honest. Do you really make your priorities a priority? Do you give the things that you have decided are important the attention that they deserve? How often do you let the things that you tell yourself are a priority slip? Do you procrastinate and avoid your priorities by occupying your time with low [...]

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Lessons from the Movie Groundhog Day

February 2, 2010

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In the movie Groundhog Day, a miserable, anti-social weatherman named Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) finds himself reliving Groundhog Day over and over again in the quiet little town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. This surprise comedy hit forever changed the meaning of Groundhog Day to anyone who has seen the movie. Groundhog Day is [...]

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Keep Score by Tracking Your Net Worth

February 1, 2010

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If you feel that you need to improve in a particular area of your life, one strategy that is virtually guaranteed to help you improve if you apply it consistently is to keep score. Think of a metric that you think would be appropriate in measuring the results that you are looking for. Make [...]

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The Week in Review

January 29, 2010

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This Week’s Posts
01/25/10 – Decide on Your Most Important Goal, Be Relentless, and Achieve the Crap Out of It
01/26/10 – You brought this upon yourself. What are you going to do about it?
01/27/10 – The Art of Kicking Ass
01/28/10 – A Radically Simple Productivity Strategy That Is Usually Overlooked
From around the Web
Ridiculously Extraordinary – [...]

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A Radically Simple Productivity Strategy That Is Usually Overlooked

January 28, 2010

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One of the most powerful strategies to become more productive is radically simple but is commonly overlooked. The strategy is simply this:
Keep 100% of your promises.
That’s it. Keep 100% of the agreements that you make with others and that you make with yourself, and you will easily be one of the most productive people [...]

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The Art of Kicking Ass

January 27, 2010

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Are you ready to kick some ass? No, I’m not talking about getting in a street fight. I’m talking about taking your competitiveness to a higher level. Whether we are talking about sports, business, games, warfare, or yes, even street fights, there is one important concept you need to remember to increase your winning [...]

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You brought this upon yourself. What are you going to do about it?

January 26, 2010

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The title of this post is exactly what I thought to myself last Thursday morning. Wednesday was a very stressful 12-hour day, and I had put myself in a position where I then had to stay up late to write my blog post for Thursday in order to maintain the personal standard that I [...]

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