Going Digital.

March 3, 2010

In my post Design Your Life to Get More of What You Want, I mentioned that minimalism is one of my areas of focus. One area of minimalism that I want to achieve is to go completely paperless. I actually began this transition many years ago, but I have never made it a deliberate process. […]

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Is it TIME you lack or is it FOCUS?

March 2, 2010

Do you study time management techniques? I have been studying them for about 20 years now, and I have found that, ironically, they are often a waste of time. Most of them are directed towards increasing our efficiency, but too often we are efficiently doing unimportant activities. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that something […]

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Design Your Life to Get More of What You Want

March 1, 2010

The concept of “lifestyle design” is a topic that has exploded in popularity over the last few years ever since Tim Ferriss coined the phrase in his book The 4-Hour Workweek. Some people (like myself) are passionate about the idea, and others think it is some kind of scam or just isn’t realistic. I’ve noticed […]

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The Week in Review

February 26, 2010

This Week’s Posts 02/22/10 – Today is the Most Important Day of Your Life! 02/23/10 – Make Today a Great Day 02/24/10 – Four Simple Questions That Can Change Your Life 02/25/10 – What Does It Mean to Live a Balanced Life? From around the Web Steve Scott – 29 Ways to Make Today the […]

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What Does It Mean to Live a Balanced Life?

February 25, 2010

There are no shortage of articles or blog posts about the importance of achieving balance in your life. It’s pretty much taken as a given. But what does it really mean to live a “balanced” life? The way most people describe balance, life is like a teeter-totter. If you ever played on a teeter-totter when […]

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Four Simple Questions That Can Change Your Life

February 24, 2010

There are four simple questions that can definitely change your life: What should I do more of? What should I do less of? What should I start doing? What should I stop doing? That’s it. Simple, yet powerful. The catch? It ain’t easy. First of all, these questions are interrelated. Let’s say that you think […]

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Make Today a Great Day

February 23, 2010

In yesterday’s post, I said that Today is the Most Important Day of Your Life! If today is so important, it makes sense to strive to make it a great day. What makes a day a great day? I suppose that we all might have different ideas about what makes a day great, but in […]

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Today is the Most Important Day of Your Life!

February 22, 2010

Today is the most important day of your life! I don’t know who is reading this right now,  I don’t know when you are reading it, and I can’t possibly know your circumstances. So how can I know that today is the most important day of your life? Because today is the most important day […]

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The Week in Review

February 19, 2010

This Week’s Posts 02/15/10 – Tim Ferriss: “Income without time has no value.” 02/16/10 – The Brain-Dead Simple Strategy for Becoming Wealthy 02/17/10 – What is luck? 02/18/10 – What is luck? Part II From around the Web Mr. Self Development – Are You Going to Fail Again This Year? OPEN Forum – Here’s a […]

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What is luck? Part II

February 18, 2010

This addendum to my previous post What is luck? is a response to the assertion that Warren Buffett could possibly have achieved extraordinary investment returns even if the probability was extraordinarily low. He could have been “incomprehensibly lucky,” using the phrase I used. This is similar to the theory that if you had enough monkeys […]

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