I’m not sure how young I was when I first doubted the existence of Santa Claus. Maybe seven years old?Yes, the impossibility of Santa making all those deliveries in one night bothered me a bit, as did the whole, “he won’t show up if you’re not...
In the past few weeks I’ve been spending a lot of time evaluating CD duplicator/printer units, sometimes called “CD publishers”. That’s because the business I’m building around my self-improvement blog is finally getting to the point where I’ll be...
It’s a funny thing, the brain. It’s designed to repeat whatever you’ve already done, and prefer it that way, even if you’re doing things the hard way!Every two weeks, when I do my workshops, I tend to struggle with the same pattern. As the deadline...
Yesterday I was loading up the dishwasher and getting ready to switch it on. But I was momentarily torn: should I keep the glass I was already using, or put it in the dishwasher? It was already pretty dirty, but I wanted to put some milk in it to...
Doing these workshops is such a rush. I don’t mean the public speaking aspect (which I’m still nervous about most of the time), but the part where I can tell I’m actually helping people. In ways that are much more personal and substantial than...
It’s really strange, but ever since I started my blog, it seems like my life has been in some kind of fast-forward mode. Slowly at first, but then followed by four quantum leaps thereafter, as I’ve described here in The Multiple Self, Self, Version...
Last night, I lost the recording of the Procrastination Cure workshop I was giving, due to a crash of PowerGramo, the recording software I use with Skype. Luckily, a participant had a pair of recordings they made with Gizmo, which was what he was...
It happened last night.I had just given a four-hour teleseminar called The Procrastination Cure, and it many ways it was the best one I’ve done yet. People were learning, they were changing, they were getting rid of blocks and finding new...
One of my bosses used to tell me that in the military, the rule of learning is “See One, Do One, Teach One”. First you watch somebody else do it, then you do it, and finally you teach someone else. The reason is that when you teach someone to do...
For many years, I would try every new time management or personal organization system that came out. And while some were better than others, I have to say that, overall, none of them really “worked”, in the sense that they didn’t make me become the...
Every year in Florida, we have a hurricane season. And in most years, there is at least one “close call”. A storm is sighted, and it’s heading towards us. And, three to five days out, we have to make decisions about how to prepare. Will we close...
Way back in the mists of time, I wrote a GTD article called Turning “Stuff” into Action, in which I speculated that it would be really good to have a way to apply Test-Driven Development principles to my life.And suddenly, over a year and a half...
