Tag: Dawn Groves

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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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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The Walkstation Magic Bullet that Tripled My Productivity

The karmic backlash when you write about excuses is they retaliate en mass. For a person already plagued by them  (I’m a writer, remember?), dealing with a galvanized frontal assault is pretty wild. Here’s how it happened…

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Business Meetings with a Big Ugly Scratch Down Your Face

scratch

ouch

My dog used my face to launch off the bed this morning. Nigel weighs about 55 pounds. He was chasing the cat.

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