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5 Minutes for a Happier & More Productive Life

Some new friends have been raving about The Five-Minute Journal. Five minutes a day to improve your life: accomplishing more and feeling better, too. Oz watches over my journal. Being a cat, he’s asleep on the job. Having kept a journal for a very long time, I set out to investigate. It turns out that… Continue Reading

Get a Little Momentum

How about a little less distraction and a lot more focus? In a world where you can open a new browser tab at a moment’s notice to look up anything under the sun, it’s easy to end up reading about random things. This doesn’t help with the current task at hand. Enter Momentum Dashboard for… Continue Reading

Getting Started with an Online Presence

Let’s say you want to share your expertise, and you’d like to make sure that people notice you, too. One of my readers, who is considering writing a blog of her own, wrote to ask these questions: “How do you manage to find the time to keep a quality presence on multiple platforms?” “Are you… Continue Reading

Engagement for Memory: Try Quizlet

Want to remember something? Want to give your learners a fun way to study on their own to enhance their memories? Maybe add a little gamification to an otherwise boring pursuit? Want to Remember? Try Repetition with Variety Memorization usually takes time. When it’s required, one way to encourage studying for memory is to use… Continue Reading

Seriously, Why Do You Think That’s True?

Someone writes a popular article and suddenly everyone is talking about the benefits of open office landscapes, a particular way to study math, or the “fact” that girls (or boys) are smarter than boys (or girls). How do we avoid the leadership, learning, or performance-focused flavor of the month? Stars in the Daytime? Let’s Check.… Continue Reading

3 Favorite Blogs, Continued

In keeping with a request for information about my favorite blogs, here are three more that I keep in my Feedly stream and try to read regularly. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: How to be awesome at life. Eric Barker writes for Wired magazine, and he also publishes a blog that’s all about how we… Continue Reading

Getting More Done with KanbanFlow

Do you have more than three things to do today? If so, it helps to make a list. There are many great ways to make lists. Paper is fine for a day or two, but it doesn’t take long before I have to rewrite the list. I’m not fond of that. Mostly, I like electronic… Continue Reading

Where’s My Connection?!!!

Just the other day I was reading about someone’s “digital sabbatical.” My thought about this was, “Good for her, but I’m not all that excited to take one myself.” Maybe someday, but not yet. At least, not so far. Mendocino Coast I’m spending a long weekend in northern California with professional colleagues. Before deciding to… Continue Reading

3 Favorite Blogs

Michael Hyatt | PsyBlog | Greater Good One of my friends asked me to write about some of my favorite blogs. Here are three that I read regularly.   Michael Hyatt: Intentional Leadership After a long & successful career in publishing, Michael Hyatt now speaks, blogs, podcasts, and offers seminars about personal development, leadership, productivity,… Continue Reading

RIP Google Reader: Long Live Feedly

Why RSS | Feedly to the Rescue | Feedly’s Keyboard Shortcuts At Google’s Take Your Parents to Work Day in April, one dad asked Larry & Sergey why they were discontinuing Google Reader. The reaction from the crowd was loud & sustained—who knew that Google employees and their parents loved Google Reader so much? But… Continue Reading