Category: Time Management

Proactive Nothing: Biz Strategy & Kayaking Skill

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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5 Great Take-A-Ways from Seth Godin Interview

I just watched Michael Sliwinski’s 10-minute chat with Seth Godin. The discussion circled around Seth’s prolific content development schedule. I’d encourage anyone involved with writing or blogging or starting a business to watch the interview.

The following are a few quick points I paraphrased. Check out the interview because there are many more.

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Keep Track, Expand Klout with Content Curation

interesting times

maybe a little too interesting...

The online world reminds me of an ancient Chinese curse,

“May You Be Born in An Interesting Time.”

Case in point: mining online content. Talk about interesting! It’s a distraction-laden time-sucking black hole of inefficiency. Not that it doesn’t produce good material, but the time wasted often exceeds the quality of the result.

A distraction-laden time-sucking black hole of inefficiency.

What’s Curation?

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

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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