So, having noticed this unwanted behaviour I’ve decided to up the ante and have technology come to my aid in the form of the LeechBlock plugin for FireFox which I posted about last June in, “The App Between Your Ears”.
Many of us are filled with the best of intentions – goals and resolutions are evidence of that.
So why do some of us keep sabotaging our own success by not consistently following through?
These two gentlemen might just have a working solution to that conundrum.
Psychologist, Steve Levinson and Peak Performance Educator, Peter Greider – paid attention to nature and came up with an intriguing theory on what they call “an inherent design flaw of the human mind”.
Although Michael Stearns earned an MBA from Georgetown University in 2008, the recession’s dented his attempts to land a Bay Area marketing job.
To stand out from the crowd, he (and/or his wife) have turned to the online world – and put up the site, myhusbandneedsajob.com
By mistake, I posted them late last night to this blog and to my new ghostwriting & copywriting blog – as it turns out, an unintended test of whatever duplicate content policies the big ‘G’ search engine might be enforcing haha!
If you want to read them – go visit my Samurai Writer’s blog.
I wrote last month about plans to update my LinkedIn profile.
I just spent a couple of hours doing that – following the guidelines laid down by Krishna De.
In addition to a contact-focussed ’summary’ section, I’ve also added connection request guidelines, my blog’s feed and some Amazon book recommendations – 2 new ‘widget’ apps released by [...]
I recently discovered the “management wisdom” work of Nick McCormick and am looking forward to reading his book, “Lead Well and Prosper”.
In the meantime I checked out Nick’s interesting 6 minute management tips podcast with Dan Coughlin, intriguingly titled “The 1-3-6-Exercise“.
And although the focus of Nick’s site is on management, after listening I was struck [...]
Occasionally my coaching clients have a problem with staying on task.
Oh, they have goals, plans and even the best of intentions but alas, there’s always some crazy, unexpected interruption that derails their progress.
And, naturally enough, they want me to help.
(Well, if truth be told, I too have similar problems from time to time – and [...]
I’ve been interested in mind maps since experimenting with them as a teacher in the early 1980s.
Of course it was pencil and paper back then – which made editing coloured maps a real pain.
Still, there remains something uniquely creative about the low-tech way and I continue to use it for my own impromptu idea sessions.
Nowadays [...]
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Professor Albert Bartlett
I came across Prof Bartlett’s work while I was googling how to better explain percentage changes to my sixth grade daughter recently.
Having taught Maths & Physics in the UK many moons ago I was intrigued enough to check [...]
One unnerving aspect to career change is leaving safe and familiar territory to take a calculated risk in some unexplored field.
Even with years of experience and transferable skills, it can be an exciting but often nerve racking ride – as you find yourself (temporarily) “knowingly incompetent” in new skills others have already mastered.
Rather than being [...]
