Category Archives: planning

533,000 Is Too Much

A lot has happened since my last blog post.  When I last posted an article in early September, John McCain was leading in the polls and the Dow Jones was 3,000 points higher than it is today.
Oh, and the US lost a ton of jobs.  They originally reported a loss of 159,000 job losses in […]

The Criminally-Minded Approach for Achieving Goals

You’re faced against the establishment and all the rules are against you. Those rules are there for a reason - to protect the haves and to keep out the have-nots, and you’re one of the have-nots.
To succeed in such situations, sometimes you have to break the rules. If you’re willing to do what it […]

10 Tips for Immediate Productivity Results

Are you drowning in work? Do you consistently end your day with things on your to-do list that you wanted to get done but never got to? Has your productivity in your day job been reduced to the point that you regularly work nights and weekends? Let me ask: if someone gives you yet […]

The Hero with a Thousand Jobs

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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave…. Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system […]

Do You Know What You Don’t Know?

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Here’s a trivia question: what causes the seasons to change? If you said it’s from the Earth getting closer or further from the sun as it orbits, then your answer was the same that many Harvard grads gave in a survey. And like those Harvard grads, you would be wrong.
More fun […]