Now Is The Time To Take Back Your Time

February 22, 2010

That giant sucking sound you hear is your time going down the Internet drain as you check your e-mail for the twentieth time today.  (Round about noon or so.)
Sure, there’s Twitter. There’s Facebook. There’s all the general Web grazin’ you can do on any given day. But for me – and I’m betting for you [...]

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7 Learning Lessons from a Toddler

February 18, 2010

A while back I was on the phone with a former client to whom I had not talked since my son was born. “I know you probably wouldn’t want to think about it this way,” she said, “but it must be like having a little learning laboratory in your home.”
True – that’s not really how [...]

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The Three Essential Career Questions

February 16, 2010

Increasingly it seems to me there are really only three essential questions that drive a successful, fulfilling career:

What do I really want to be great at?
How can I be great at it?
What am I willing to sacrifice?

So much of lifelong learning involves figuring out the first question.
Then figuring out how to do it.
Then learning – [...]

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The Saturday Morning Idea Engine

February 13, 2010

It’s incredibly easy to waste a lot of time on the Web by reading random blog posts, poking around on Twitter, watching videos, or succumbing to any number of other temptations. I try to avoid this sort of Web grazing as much as possible, but I realized recently that I have probably been too careful [...]

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Learn How to Create a Blog That Rocks

February 12, 2010

I mentioned back in the fall that I had enrolled in Leo Babauta’s A-List Blogging Bootcamp in an effort to take my blogging to the next level. For those of you not familiar with Leo, he is the creator of Zen Habits, a blog he took from 0 to 150,000 subscribers in the span of [...]

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