Finish Something Every Single Day.

April 14, 2010

I don’t think that there is a person alive who doesn’t procrastinate on something. I have been trying to figure out what causes procrastination. One thing that I have learned is that procrastination has nothing to do with laziness. I have always been a hard worker. I have routinely worked overtime at pretty much every […]

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The Huge Power of Small Commitments

April 13, 2010

Lately I’ve been thinking about how small changes that are continued on a consistent basis over long periods of time can lead to massive changes. The example that I mentioned in yesterday’s weekly status update was that of the Grand Canyon. This wonder of the world was created by small, almost imperceptible changes year in […]

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The 90-Day Challenge: Weekly Status Update

April 12, 2010

Today is Day 12 of the 90-Day Challenge.  I have set 4 goals that I want to accomplish in the next 90 days. Let’s see how I’m doing: Publish 2 e-books. In The Art of Habit Change, I made a commitment to work on my first e-book from 6:15 AM to 6:45 AM every single […]

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The Week in Review

April 9, 2010

This Week’s Posts 04/05/10 – The 90-Day Challenge: Weekly Status Update 04/06/10 – The Return to Results-Oriented Time Management 04/07/10 – The Philosophy of Results-Oriented Time Management 04/08/10 – Book Review: The Millionaire Next Door From around the Web gaping void (Guest post by Everett Bogue) – focus on the important Web Worker Daily – […]

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Book Review: The Millionaire Next Door

April 8, 2010

When I first read The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas Stanley and William Danko many years ago, it forever changed my beliefs about what it takes to be wealthy. I used to think that the only way that I could become wealthy was to work my butt off by […]

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The Philosophy of Results-Oriented Time Management

April 7, 2010

In yesterday’s post The Return to Results-Oriented Time Management, I talked about how there is a growing movement to return to the time management philosophy used by primitive man. Primitive man’s survival depended on being intensely results-oriented. Procrastination? Lack of focus? Not an issue. Primitive man didn’t say to himself, “I don’t feel like finding […]

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The Return to Results-Oriented Time Management

April 6, 2010

In the early days of man, time management was intensely focused and results-oriented. As a hunter-gatherer, if you didn’t achieve the result of finding food, you starved. Hunger has an amazing way of focusing your attention. In fact, much of your motivation was to satisfy some immediate desire or to alleviate some immediate discomfort. If […]

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The 90-Day Challenge: Weekly Status Update

April 5, 2010

Today is Day 5 of the 90-Day Challenge. I am a big believer in accountability, so I have decided to post a weekly status update to let everyone know where I stand in the 90-Day Challenge. My public announcements should help put pressure on me to keep my commitments. I also hope to encourage others […]

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The Week in Review

April 2, 2010

This Week’s Posts 03/29/10 – My Goals for the 90-Day Challenge 03/30/10 – Thoughts on Goal Planning 03/31/10 – The Art of Habit Change 04/01/10 – Why I Have Decided to Throw in the Towel From around the Web Inc.com – Schwarzkopf On Leadership Skewster – Happiness flow-chart LibertyPen (YouTube) – Ayn Rand – Open […]

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Why I Have Decided to Throw in the Towel

April 1, 2010

No, this isn’t just some April Fool’s joke. I am quitting blogging, and I have decided not to bother with the 90-Day Challenge. You are probably wondering what brought on this sudden turn of events. It’s not a decision that I made lightly. It’s actually something that I have been carefully considering for the last […]

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