I don’t profess to be an e-mail expert, but I get a few dozen e-mails a day and often several e-mails a day from people I haven’t met before. I also maintain connections with some people entirely through e-mail. Given how important e-mail is in today’s world, it is amazing how bad some people are […]
Three Strategies for Enhancing Your Day
Over the last few years I’ve really been engaged in the process of enhancing my daily routine so I can get more done and have more fun while I’m at it. Even small optimizations can yield huge dividends in long-term results and have a noticeable impact on short-term quality. In trying to make optimizations I’ve […]
Links for Getting in Shape
It’s approaching summer, a great time to be fit and look good. Here are a couple resources for getting in shape that I’ve stumbled upon recently. Good ideas in all: Tim Ferriss documents how he gained 34 pounds of muscle mass from a combined total of eight hours in the gym over one month. Even […]
Getting Lucky
Win or lose, it’s mostly luck. Whether you get the date, close the sale or get your article digged and tagged throughout the net, most of it was just a roll of the dice. But just because simply living makes you a gambler, doesn’t mean it is time to despair. It just means you have […]
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