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From the monthly archives:

July 2008

A Daily Guide To Creativity And New Ideas

July 31, 2008

Here is an excellent article about creativity.
Creativity is a combination of these three elements.
The Dreamer is necessary for creativity in order to form new ideas and goals. The Realist is necessary for creativity as a means to transform ideas into concrete expressions. The Critic is necessary for creativity as a filter and as a stimulus [...]

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How to travel with DVDs

July 30, 2008

I travel quite a bit.  I wanted to bring some DVD material with my on my current trip to France.  I’m currently in Paris.  But, taking a collection of DVDs is not practical, there is no room in my suitcase.
I tried using many tools to convert my DVD to a computer file but they didn’t [...]

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The Fifth Snarkiest Misconception about the Law of Attraction

July 29, 2008

I get the question “Where’s my stuff?” often.  Many people think that once they start focusing on prosperity and abundance that it should instantly manifest.  It can.  Instantly.  No doubt about it.
Scientists estimate that the human brain thinks about 70,000 thoughts a day.If you multiply that by 365 days in a year, that’s 25,550,000 thoughts. [...]

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Branson’s doctor in the house

July 29, 2008

But instead of pursuing a career in the NHS, Holly will not enter her second year of hospital training and will immediately take up an internship under her father’s eye.
“I’m leaving medicine next Tuesday to start working with my dad,” says Holly, who was yesterday watching the Cartier International tournament at the Guards Polo Club [...]

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Virgin Galactic shows off mothership aircraft

July 29, 2008

The space tourism race marked a milestone Monday as British mogul Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace designer Burt Rutan waved to a crowd from inside the cabin of an exotic jet that will carry a passenger spaceship to launch altitude.
The photo-op was the public unveiling of the White Knight Two mothership before a crowd [...]

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Email Etiquette & Hoaxes

July 28, 2008

Do you get emails you don’t want from friends and business associates?  Or how about hoaxes that your best buddy sends to you.  I’ve been getting emails since the late 80’s and when regular people started to get email addresses I started to get pointless emails.  Here are some of my tips not to add [...]

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Who loves accounting?

July 25, 2008

Who loves accounting? I don’t. Even though I had accounting at the honor level at university and aced it, I don’t love accounting. I don’t like QuickBooks, Quicken or the Microsoft versions, too complicated.  I just need a simple tool to do invoices for parts of my business.
In comes Freshbooks.  It has [...]

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ABC Formula for Success

July 24, 2008

There is no ABC formula for success that everybody can get to work. Doesn’t exist. If it did then there would only be on success book. Nobody else would have written a success book if the only one worked for everyone.
There are many many success books. Health, diet, finance, relationships, etc, [...]

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Yellow tape your office

July 23, 2008

I’ve gone thru simplifying my life. I’ve turned off my mobile phone ringer, muted my computer, put Skype and GTalk on do not disturb a vast majority of the day, filtered my email (newsletter get archived and labeled ‘Read’ for later), unsubscribed from some newsletters that I just don’t have time to read ever [...]

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Are you too Big to be an entrepreneur

July 22, 2008

I watched the move Big a few months ago with the family. I hadn’t seen it since it came out in the theaters.
The main character is very creative because he really is a kid. By the end of the movie he is bored and not creative anymore. He’s gotten tied up in [...]

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Time Is Not On Your Side

July 21, 2008

Back in December when I was on a “writer’s retreat” on the coast of Texas, My partner Nan and I wanted to focus on getting more done while having a life. I’ve automated some more business and added a virtual assistant to make calls for me. I’ve turned off my ringer on my [...]

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Collabrate your way to success

July 18, 2008

Most people do not use collaboration tools.  If you are not good or plain not doing collaboration take some time to learn Google Docs, Word tracking, wikis, and appointment schedulers, etc.
Also, check out my automation and delegation coaching.  Investing in a little education about your tools can pay very high returns.
I can work from anywhere [...]

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Mont St. Michel

July 16, 2008

Last week we went to Mont St. Michel just north of us here in France.
This is one place that I really loved.  Very magical.
It is entirely built on a big hill.  The medival streets are still intact.  Many tourist shops and restaurants.  We at one with a view of the surrounding sea and land.  Beautiful [...]

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Older than Stonehenge

July 15, 2008

Last week I went to Carnac here on the north west coast of France.  I hadn’t heard of Carnac the place.  When I heard it the first time I thought my friends were talking about the Johnny Carson skit he used to do.
Well, Carnac is an amazing place.  It has thousands of stones in strange [...]

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