- Three things you should track daily
I call this the Personal Battery Check, which will help you know how much tired you are, whether you concentration levels are up, or if some unhappiness in personal/domestic life is affecting your performance.
1. Trac…
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- 15 most important things you should discover about yourself ASAP
As early as possible in life, you must find what and who really matters to you. Before it's too late. Know thyself.
1. What you truly stand for. (and are willing to be public about it)
2. You need to find
your pow…
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- The 100 greatest short but most practical words of wisdom of all time
The top 10:
Life is difficult.
This too shall pass.
Don't panic.
Keep calm, carry on.
Breathe.
Simplify.
Listen.
Suffer.
Adapt.
Always improve.
Smile!
Live.
Run.
Try.
Do.
Duck!
Now.
Enjoy.
Love.
No …
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- 150 most important bits of advice on 150 most important things in life and business
Think of this as The Success Manual in Brief.
1. DO YOUR OWN THING
A man who doesn't go his own way is nothing.
- James Jones
2. MANAGE YOURSELF
Why change the world when we can change ourselves
– Mahatma Gan…
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- How to be remarkable #138: Accept the sorrows
As R.E.M. put it 'Everybody Hurts', you are not the only to be hurt, at this moment almost 50% of all people must be hurting for some reason. That's how life goes. So, as the R.E.M. songs says 'Hold on, Hold On.' here ar…
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- How to be remarkable #137: Turn off the computer
The computer screen holds us glued to it. We wanted to finish writing somethinng but let's search Google for something, let's check out what's up with friends on facebook, let's find who abused whom on Twitter?...the gia…
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- How to be remarkable #136: Have no attachments
It is not that attachments are risky, but attachements are 'maya'. You get interested in something and then it all maze. Life becomes a series of 'what ifs' and 'why nots , and 'why mes'. The Buddha said:
“Embrace nothi…
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- 15 Things Andy Rooney said better than anybody else
Andy Rooney, the American radio and television writer, was perhaps most famous for his satirical quotes about news and other things in life, on the last word segment "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", each week on the CBS…
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- How to be remarkable #135: Create something everyday
Did you know that Isaac Asimov wrote and published more than 400 books by typing nonstop from 6 am to noon, every day for forty years! And that Edison got 1600+ patents!
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- How to be remarkable #134: Don't be self-righteous
St. Augustine said it right, "As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
Related: Organic food makes us judgmental and stuck upNext: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, app…
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- 33 awful (but smart) ways to succeed in life
Truth be said, most successful people in this world got there by a combination of luck, smarts, occassional spurts of hard work, and some underhand smarts. Otherwise, every ironsmith in this world would be a millionaire…
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- How to be remarkable #133: Build a business from scratch
Ah, the eternal business sucecss story, to build a business from scratch. It takes a lot of things for this to happen - the idea, resources, the motivation, the planning, ...and luck. Whether or not you have all these th…
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- How to be remarkable #132: Go on a clothing diet (aka the steve jobs clothing style)
The idea of going on a clothing diet is about having a simple wardrobe - 1. just a few essential items (e.g. the six items of less movement - sixitemsorless.com), or 2. a simple color palette ( e.g. Jobs always wore b…
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- How to be remarkable #131: Promote your company like Google
Google has had a long history of promoting its products in innovative styles. You remember the comics made to promote Chrome in 2008, or the beautiful online book made in html5 to promote html5 usageNow Google Indonesia …
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- How to be remarkable #130: Tell honest stories (to fix your company, startup, yourself and your job)
The Bizarro Storytelling Exercise gets its name from Bizarro, the comic book villain, and it is about using honesty to get a clear idea about your situation. While storytelling has long being championed as a problem-solv…
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- How to remarkable #129: rebuild your own brain
A part of Barbara Arrowsmith-Young's brain was not functioning properly so she developed a series of cognitive exercises to develop it. As of now, she and her team have created cognitive exercises that help improve 19 di…
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- How to be remarkable #128: Fight for your internet rights (digital bill of rights)
The people fighting the draconian SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) have just come out with a "Digital Bill of Rights".
1. The right to a free and uncensored Internet.
2. The right to an open, unobstructed Internet.
3. Th…
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- How to remarkable #127: Self-publish a book
Self-publishing needn't be a domain exclusive for people lusting after vanity. Many useful and interesting books have been published by self-publishers when traditional publishers haven't understood the viability of thei…
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- How to be remarkable #126: Learn to ignore (the unnecessary)
Scott hanselman says a solution to this age of information (mostly useless) flood (sounds better than overload) is that 'It’s Not What You Read; It’s What You Ignore. ' He appears to be pointing us to the 80:20 rule (foc…
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- How to be remarkable #125: Read novels (it makes you a better person)
Researchers at Dartmouth and Ohio State universities suggest that reading fiction can actually make you better people, expplaining that more you identify with fictional characters on the page, the more you will try to ac…
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