Tag: blogging

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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Ten Essentials for Writing Anything: Be Smart About It

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:

  • Stop Waiting
  • Keep Quiet
  • Commit
  • Construct a Filing System
  • Set a Timeline
  • Never Trust Memory
  • Anticipate Distractions
  • Establish an Online Presence
  • Check One Info Site a Day
  • Decide on a Motto

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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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