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 [...]
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
Live your dreams, “Born to be wild” is a commercial for a Norwegian lottery.
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 enough money. Not enough people.
That’s a good thing.
Instead of freaking out about these constraints, embrace them. Let [...]
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 upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to [...]
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” which sums it up nicely.
The good news is that your lack of a natural gift [...]
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 [...]
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 dreams a reality, we have to carve out our own path. We have to find a [...]
