Category: Notes

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

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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Practical Neuroscience: Review of “Buddha’s Brain” excites my neurons

Buddha's Brain

Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson Ph.d.

I can’t ignore a book entitled:

Buddha’s Brain:

The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness Love and Wisdom

Three things I immediately like about neuropsychologist Rick Hanson’s book.

  • He focuses on small changes that reap big brain mojo.
  • He describes brain science in the context of contemplative practice.
  • He’s not overly wordy.
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How a Chickadee Might Handle World Disaster

chickHenny Penny bustled through the chicken coop, cackling her dire warning, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”

Turkey Lurkey gobbled and hopped in circles. Goosey Loosey flapped a bee-line for the farm pond. Foxy Loxy parked himself outside of the fence and waited.

As Henny Penny charged through the back forty, she stopped just short of running over a tiny chickadee, flat on her back with her feet in the air.

“What are you doing?” Henny Penny squawked. “Don’t you know, the sky is falling!?”

“I know,” said the chickadee, shifting her legs so her feet reached even higher. “One does what one can.”

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How to Use Stress to Be More Productive: Justin Menkes

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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Be the Same at Work and at Home, says Zappo’s Tony Hseih

Tony Hsieh http://www.deliveringhappiness.com/about-the-author/

I want to be this guy.

“A lot of people [act] different on the weekends versus the office. It’s like they leave a big part of themselves at home. We encourage our employees to be themselves. We want them to be the same person at home and the office.”
Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos on work culture, from Entrepreneur.com

I want to be Tony Hseih — selling LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 mil, being CEO of Zappos, and writing a worthy best seller: Delivering Happiness.

Of course, if I told this to Tony he’d probably say, “Dawn, you don’t want to be me. Be more of  yourself.”  Hhmph.

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