Category: Energy

Proactive Nothing: Biz Strategy & Kayaking Skill

December 6th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Goals, Meditation, Success, Time Management, Writing No comments - Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Peter Bregman is a Do-Nothing Guy.

Author and business strategist, Peter Bregman, recently posted an excellent Harvard Business Review blog piece entitled, Restore Yourself to Your Factory Default Settings. In it, he touts the wisdom gained from a short do-nothing break.

Asleep in a kayak

Doing Nothing Rather Well

“When you unplug and wait for a minute, you restore yourself to your factory default settings, which for most of us tends to be generous, open-hearted, creative, connected, and hopeful. ” -PB

His subsequent article, When Nothing Works, explored the concept more radically.

“In my last blog post, Restore Yourself to Your Factory Default Settings, I suggested that doing nothing for a minute might help change things. Sometimes, though, it’s worth taking that to the extreme.“-PB

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Not Many Twitter Followers.. How to Deal with It.

October 10th, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Goals, Notes, Positive Emotions, Procrastination, Success, Time Management, Writing 3 comments - Tags: , , , , , , ,

Size Doesn’t Matter, Does it?

I started seriously tweeting on my blog topic about six months ago. To date, my feedback has been generally good.

  • The blog is relevant and interesting.
  • I craft useful tweets.
  • I exhibit Twitter restraint (not deluging followers with crap)
twitter followers

Woot.

When new followers show up, I often check their profiles. Most of them have, like, 2 million folks following them.  Last count I had, uhm, 86.

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Blogging for a Living:
Marketing Blogmeister Stephen Smith Takes the Leap

September 22nd, 2011 · · Blogging, Energy, Essays, Goals, Interviews, Positive Emotions, Success, Time Management, Uncategorized, Writing 6 comments
Stephen Smith

Stephen Smith

I discovered Stephen thru the InContext blog. He was quite excited about quitting his management position to return to blogging and consulting full time. Many of us consider this option but few take the leap. This interview is about his strategy, plans for the future, and attitude. Stephen’s bio is at the end of the article.

Dawn Groves: You have a lot of irons in the fire. Would you list your blogs/websites/online profiles?

Stephen Smith: Sure, it’s actually very easy, I’ve created a hub-page at http://stephenpsmith.com/ where you can see everything I’m up to: Twitter, the blogs, Facebook, Delicious, the whole enchilada.

You have a cool tag line concept: business development through personal development.

Business Development through Personal Development means you can use productivity principles to enhance your ability to lead, manage, and execute the functions of your business. By becoming more disciplined and focused you can improve everything – make more products, improve service, create more sales, even make more money.

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Ten Essentials for Writing Anything: Be Smart About It

September 18th, 2011 · · Blogging, Books, Energy, Goals, Procrastination, Success, Time Management, Writing 4 comments - Tags: , , , , , , ,
frustrated writer

Where do I begin?

 

Before I start any writing project, I check off my ten essentials and make sure they’re in order. They save TIME and ENERGY, and they support successful completion no matter how resistant I am:

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How to Use Stress to Be More Productive: Justin Menkes

April 28th, 2011 · · Energy, Goals, Notes, Positive Emotions, Success, Time Management No comments - Tags: , , , , ,

Ride that bull, baby.

bullrider

This guy is pretty stressed out but he keeps his cool. I do feel sorry for the bull, though.

In the Harvard Business Review, Justin Menkes wrote an terrific blog piece, “How Stress Can Improve Your Performance.” He says,

“Once an executive learns how to manage adrenaline without panic, he or she can grow confident that the sensations that stress induces will not lead to collapse.

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