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Many of the world’s top performers practice meditation.  I view it as a way to get your mind in the right place before you start work. There are many different types of meditation.  It is worth exploring which kind of meditation works best for you. Here are some of the more popular forms of meditation: […]

  Money is what you get in exchange for helping someone else.  It is an “I owe you” note.  You help somebody, whether it’s your neighbor, a customer, or your boss, and they give you money in exchange for your time and effort. The time and effort you spend to help somebody else is called […]

With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. Before he began his Kindle book empire, Steve Scott […]

I once got an amusing phishing scam email informing me that someone has been trying to access my account from a foreign IP address and that I need to verify my information with them. Here’s an excerpt: “If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.” […]

The first step in taking control of your productivity is to know how you spend your time. Sometimes time just seems to “fly.”  Time just slips away, and you can no longer account for all of it.  It is where time auditing comes in.  If you pay close attention to your time and track it, […]

“Two heads are better than one” As the Internet penetrates into more and more households across the globe, it becomes easier to take advantage of the minds of many.  Harnessing the contributions of the Internet community is called “crowdsourcing.” Every major website uses crowdsourcing, though some use it more than others.  There is a potential to […]

With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. I first heard of Jason Zook years ago, when […]

  While established cooks might scoff, cooking with recipes is the best way you can learn how to cook.  All you have to do is find a recipe and follow the directions.  Yes, you will make mistakes, but each time you work your way through a recipe you learn more about cooking.  It is a […]

  For a cooking book to succeed these days, it has to be written by a celebrity or it has to be in a unique niche.  With all the free recipe websites out there featuring thousands of recipes and vetted by amateur cooks at home, there is no place left on the market for general […]

With the Internet and social media, almost anyone can be your mentor. They don’t even need to know you exist. Just pick a person whose work you admire and follow them on the Internet. In the Mentor Focus series, I profile the people I follow online. My wife once asked me, “if you could have […]