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November 2009

28 Glorious Christmas Traditions

It’s almost Christmas, my favorite time of the year!  Here are 28 glorious Christmas traditions to get your Holidays off to a great start. 1.  Listen to “The Christmas Song” sung by Nat King Cole. 2. Pile into the car at night and drive around looking at all of the Holiday lights and decorations. 3. [...]

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More on Your Blog’s Unique Selling Proposition

In my last blog post, Blog Business Plan: Your Unique Selling Proposition, I covered the following three perspectives for creating a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for your blog: Assembling a tribe; Recruiting a small army; Your 1,000 true fans; As promised, in this post I’m going to cover three more perspectives for creating your blog’s [...]

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Blog Business Plan: Your Unique Selling Proposition

This is the third post in my “Blog Business Plan” series. Here are the first two: Blog Business Plan – 35 Creative Ways to Market Your Blog Blog Business Plan – Monetization This post is about creating a Unique Selling Proposition (USP) for your blog.  I realize that not all of my readers have blogs, [...]

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17 Resources to Awaken Your Right Brain

There are many ways to awaken your creative right-brain, including drawing, movement, creating collages, and so on. Here you’ll find 17 fabulous resources to give your creativity and your right-brain a jumpstart.

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Energy Management: Getting More Done

Are you looking for ways to get more done?  Time is the resource we most often turn to in order to meet the demands of life. For example, if your workload increases, you put in more hours. However, there comes a point at which you can’t put in more hours because time is a finite [...]

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27 Jubilant Happiness Books

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the year 2020 will see depression become second only to heart disease in terms of the global burden of illness.  Fortunately, there are self-development experts, Buddhist monks, and psychologists who are writing lots of books on how we can be happier.  So hopefully we’ll find a way to [...]

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Have Fun at Work and Increase the Bottom Line

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.” -Calvin Trillin Traditional wisdom states the following: “Work is not supposed to be fun. That’s why it’s called work.” A corollary of this principle states that if you see [...]

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Finding Your Life’s Passion: Conduct Experiments

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others [...]

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