Category Archives: Note

Final countdown

Posted on June 19, 2011 by bengt

Forty Plus Two will soon be closed down. The tagline was “about coaching and personal development”, I will blog about these topics in my other blogs. Older posts worth saving will be moved to either of the blogs below, the … Continue reading →

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Do what matters most

Posted on November 18, 2009 by bengt

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 … Continue reading →

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Same strategy as last year

Posted on July 16, 2009 by bengt

I am working on a post about vision, mission and strategy. In my research I found this gem about strategy – ‘Same strategy as last year…’ Source: mammoth-strategy

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Born to be wild

Posted on June 1, 2009 by bengt

Live your dreams, “Born to be wild” is a commercial for a Norwegian lottery.

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Let limitations guide you to creative solutions

Posted on May 3, 2009 by bengt

I came across this text in Motivating Yourself – Heroes, Role Models & Rivals which links to the source at Embrace Constraints (37signals) Let limitations guide you to creative solutions There’s never enough to go around. Not enough time. Not … Continue reading →

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The Starfish Story

Posted on April 27, 2009 by bengt

The Starfish Story is spread over the internet, Google shows 225,000 hits for that search term. My source is The Starfish Story where it says the story is adapted from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977). Once … Continue reading →

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What it takes to be great

Posted on March 28, 2009 by bengt

Fortune has a very interesting article about What it takes to be great. The article is from October 30, 2006 but it popped up on Twitter today. The post title says “Secrets of greatness: Practice and hard work bring success” … Continue reading →

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Spring Cleaning

Posted on March 23, 2009 by bengt

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 … Continue reading →

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It is time for me to refocus

Posted on March 13, 2009 by bengt

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 … Continue reading →

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The Number One Dream Killer?

Posted on February 21, 2009 by bengt

Jonathan Mead from Illuminated Mind has a guest post over at Zen Habits, The Number One Dream Killer: Doing What Works. The post is about Jonathan’s book Reclaim Your Dreams. If we want to have any hope at making our … Continue reading →

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