{"id":796,"date":"2008-07-11T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/friday-links-08-07-11\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T02:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:45:47","slug":"friday-links-08-07-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/friday-links-08-07-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links 08-07-11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>From the Web<\/h2>\n<p>Along with writing articles to this website, I also write four articles for Pick The Brain per month.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a few recent entries I&#8217;ve written:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickthebrain.com\/blog\/how-to-find-motivation-for-the-things-you-hate-doing\/\">How to Find Motivation for Things You Hate Doing<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Everyone has things they hate to do, but need to do anyway. Sometimes it is doing basic chores that need to be done. 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