Goals & Productivity

How to Finally Link Up Apple iCal, Outlook, and Google Calendar into One Synchronized, Happy Experience!

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GTD: Is Stress-Free Productivity Really Possible?

If you’ve been on the net as long as I have, you’ve most likely run into the “GTD” acronym before. But, do you know what it means?
GTD is a productivity and organization system that was created by management consultant David Allen in his 2001 national bestseller Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. Allen [...]

My Personal and Professional Development Goals for 2008

Earlier in the week, I discussed how to set meaningful goals for 2008. I described how to take a roles-based approach to make your “resolutions” for the year more relevant and personally meaningful to you. We reviewed how visualizing each of these areas of focus in your life–your desired outcomes, and the way you’ll feel [...]

Slow the Onslaught and Eliminate the Vast Hordes of Emails in Your Inbox!

Are you sitting in front of your screen reading this when you should be clearing out the hundreds of emails that have accumulated in your inbox? Perhaps you’re like me, a web geek–your email’s out there all over the net, so you have emails coming in from all corners of the world! Or maybe your [...]

How To Set Meaningful Goals for 2008 and Make Progress Towards Your Ideal Life

My favorite positive affirmation is that there is NOTHING you cannot DO, or BE, or HAVE! I like to repeat that to myself daily. But one must do some dedicated goal-setting, and a lot of goal-getting to get there!
This was supposed to be a New Year’s post, but unanticipated changes due to my travel schedule [...]

An Interview with Duff McDuffee of Falling Fruit TV

Today I have the opportunity to share a fascinating interview with a young businessman that is helping to change the world for the better! Duff McDuffee is an inspiring jack-of-all-trades. He is co-founder of Falling Fruit TV, a conscious online media company, as well as a deeply passionate philosopher, life coach, and yogin. His work [...]

New Years Resolutions 2007

I don’t remember how I first came across it, but a post by Rajesh Setty from January 2006, his “New Year Resolutions Generator,” inspired me to start thinking about New Years resolutions a few weeks early this year. I know it’s already the 2nd of January (sorry, I meant to have this up earlier), but [...]

How To Make The Most Of Being Sick

We all get sick. It’s a part of life.
About four or five days ago, my brand new running routine that I’ve been trying to keep up 3 or 4 days a week finally irritated my asthma (something that hasn’t bothered me for several years since I was a kid). I was in the emergency room [...]