The book Accomplishing More by Doing Less by Marc Lesser is a collection of tools as well as a manual for doing more of what is important and less of what isn’t. It’s a great book and it made me think of what matters when it comes to my blogs.
I love to write but [...]
On Twitter I got a link to a great video by CreativityWorks, Busting the Mehrabian Myth (video is below). So, what is the Mehrabian Myth then? Olivia Mitchell writes about in Why the stickiest idea in presenting is just plain wrong:
The stickiest idea in presenting and public speaking is that the meaning of your message [...]
Yesterday this interesting article popped up in my Twitter stream: An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day from Harvard Business Publishing. The article mentions time management but time can not be managed. We can manage our priotities and that was the article is about. The 18 minute plan is simple yet powerful when it comes [...]
As I wrote in It is time for me to refocus I have sorted out the topics between my blogs, in part by creating a new one – Bengt’s Notes – for the sidetopics I had before.
I have created two new index pages here, using the AZIndex plugin. You now find an Index by Tag [...]
I realized that my blogs overlapped in topics as well as had side topics that made it hard for a reader to see what the blog really was meant to cover.
Refocus = put again into focus or focus more sharply.
The side topics at Forty Plus Two will be covered in my new blog, Bengt’s [...]
It is that time of the year when we look back at the past year and start thinking about the next. In Turning 2008 into 80-20 I listed what I intended to focus on during 2008:
• In fall 2007 I finished a course and became a professional coach. Coaching is my baby for 2008 and where [...]
Typealyzer will analyze and suggest a Jung-Myers-Briggs type. It also shows a brain activity analysis which looks cool.
Forty Plus Two was classified as INTJ – The Scientists while Zen and more was classified as ISTP – The Mechanics. I think both should be taken with a grain of salt but it shows that sticking to [...]
Problogger writes about 10 Ways to Make Money BECAUSE of Your Blog.
What if I told you that there’s a way to make money as a result of your blog where you don’t need to have a single ad on your blog, where you don’t have to run any affiliate programs and where you don’t have [...]
Through The Blog Herald I was pointed to Smashing Magazine and When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
It is a great and long post that deals with
• Key Differences
• Why Are More Blogs Moving to Magazine Themes?
• Pros and Cons
• Considerations for Choosing a Style of Theme
• Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme
• Resources for Grid-Based Design
• Free Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress
• Premium [...]
Mary Jaksch who blogs at Goodlife Zen has published an e-book titled From Tragedy to Triumph – Winning through a life crisis. Her book is about the five steps to healing:
1. Acceptance.
2. Presence.
3. Action.
4. Forgiveness.
5. Integration.
The book is very well written and includes text about people who have used this method and came out stronger. [...]
