Whether you've always wanted to try Evernote or have only dabbled with it in the past, you can take your professional life to the next level by making this tool one of your go-to systems for staying organized. Evernote can help you become more focused and effective on the job—and get ahead in your career. This short, practical book shows you how.
The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to setting up your Evernote system and notebooks for maximum utility and ease of navigation.
Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work—and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.
The book Lifehack calls "The Bible of business and personal productivity."
Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. "GTD" is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, and offshoots.
Allen has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with important perspectives on the new workplace, and adding material that will make the book fresh and relevant for years to come. This new edition of Getting Things Done will be welcomed not only by its hundreds of thousands of existing fans but also by a whole new generation eager to adopt its proven principles.
If you think LinkedIn is just for job hunting, you're missing out on the many ways you can take advantage of this social network to build the professional relationships you need to advance in your career. LinkedIn can help you initiate, strengthen, and use the very real human connections that make you effective on the job—and help you get ahead. This short, practical book shows you how.
The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to starting—or perfecting—your LinkedIn profile.
• Working through a backlog of messages that have already accumulated.
By reducing the amount of time you spend on email, you'll be able to focus your time and attention on the work that matters most to you.
The book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to setting up your first email filter, getting you on your way to a cleaner, more manageable inbox.
New York Times bestseller! The long-awaited book by the founder of the enormously popular Bullet Journal® planner, journal, calendar, and all-around organizational system.
For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind worked. Out of sheer necessity, he developed a method called the Bullet Journal that helped him become consistently focused and effective. When he started sharing his system with friends who faced similar challenges, it went viral. Just a few years later, to his astonishment, Bullet Journaling is a global movement.
* Track the past: Using nothing more than a pen and paper, create a clear and comprehensive record of your thoughts.
* Order the present: Find daily calm by tackling your to-do list in a more mindful, systematic, and productive way.
* Design the future: Transform your vague curiosities into meaningful goals, and then break those goals into manageable action steps that lead to big change.
Carroll wrote this book for frustrated list-makers, overwhelmed multitaskers, and creatives who need some structure. Whether you've used a Bullet Journal for years or have never seen one before, The Bullet Journal Method will help you go from passenger to pilot of your own life.
Read the Wall Street Journal Bestseller for "cultivating intense focus" for fast, powerful performance results for achieving success and true meaning in one's professional life (Adam Grant, author of Give and Take).
Get More of the Important Things Done—Today!
There just isn't enough time for everything on our to-do list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure those get done. They eat their frogs.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning is eat a live frog, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you're done with the worst thing you'll have to do all day. For Tracy, eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Eat That Frog! shows you how to organize each day so you can zero in on these critical tasks and accomplish them efficiently and effectively.
In this fully revised and updated edition, Tracy adds two new chapters. The first explains how you can use technology to remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important. The second offers advice for maintaining focus in our era of constant distractions, electronic and otherwise.
But one thing remains unchanged: Brian Tracy cuts to the core of what is vital to effective time management: decision, discipline, and determination. This life-changing book will ensure that you get more of your important tasks done—today!
We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies—neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.
In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from disaster response to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.
An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.
For those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live.
In the future, historians may look back on human progress and draw a sharp line designating "before Scrum" and "after Scrum." Scrum is that ground-breaking. It already drives most of the world's top technology companies. And now it's starting to spread to every domain where leaders wrestle with complex projects.
If you've ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, Scrum is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains of as much as 1200% have been recorded, and there's no more lucid – or compelling – explainer of Scrum and its bright promise than Jeff Sutherland, the man who put together the first Scrum team more than twenty years ago.
The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things with agility and efficiency. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.
In this book you'll journey to Scrum's front lines where Jeff's system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores.
Woven with insights from martial arts, judicial decision making, advanced aerial combat, robotics, and many other disciplines, Scrum is consistently riveting. But the most important reason to read this book is that it may just help you achieve what others consider unachievable – whether it be inventing a trailblazing technology, devising a new system of education, pioneering a way to feed the hungry, or, closer to home, a building a foundation for your family to thrive and prosper.
It's a simple equation--the better you use your time, the more you will accomplish, and the greater you will succeed. But the rollout of this basic theory isn't so simple, is it? In Time Management, business author and success expert Brian Tracy says it is!In this indispensable, pocket-sized guide, Tracy reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day. Two or more! Every day!!By learning the strategies that Tracy himself has identified as the most effective and employed personally, readers having trouble fitting everything the day brings them inside a 24-hour window will learn how to:• Handle endless interruptions, meetings, emails, and phone calls • Identify your key result areas • Allocate enough time for top priority responsibilities • Batch similar tasks to preserve focus and make the most of each minute • Overcome procrastination • Determine what to delegate and what to eliminate • Utilize Program Evaluation and Review Techniques to work backward from the future . . . and ensure your most important goals are met • And moreFilled with Brian Tracy's trademark wisdom, this invaluable, time-creating resource will help you get more done, in less time . . . and with much less stress.
In this iconic bestseller, popular business blogger and bestselling author Seth Godin proves that winners are really just the best quitters. Godin shows that winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt—until they commit to beating the right Dip.
Every new project (or job, or hobby, or company) starts out fun…then gets really hard, and not much fun at all. You might be in a Dip—a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing. But maybe it's really a Cul-de-Sac—a total dead end. What really sets superstars apart is the ability to tell the two apart.
Winners seek out the Dip. They realize that the bigger the barrier, the bigger the reward for getting past it. If you can beat the Dip to be the best, you'll earn profits, glory, and long-term security.
Whether you're an intern or a CEO, this fun little book will help you figure out if you're in a Dip that's worthy of your time, effort, and talents. The old saying is wrong—winners do quit, and quitters do win.
Be online without leaving a trace.
Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.
In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses true-life stories to show exactly what is happening without your knowledge, teaching you "the art of invisibility"--online and real-world tactics to protect you and your family, using easy step-by-step instructions. Reading this book, you will learn everything from password protection and smart Wi-Fi usage to advanced techniques designed to maximize your anonymity.
Kevin Mitnick knows exactly how vulnerabilities can be exploited and just what to do to prevent that from happening. The world's most famous--and formerly the US government's most wanted--computer hacker, he has hacked into some of the country's most powerful and seemingly impenetrable agencies and companies, and at one point was on a three-year run from the FBI. Now Mitnick is reformed and widely regarded as the expert on the subject of computer security.
Invisibility isn't just for superheroes--privacy is a power you deserve and need in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.
Mornings are a madcap time for many of us. We wake up in a haze—often after hitting snooze a few times. Then we rush around to get ready and out the door so we can officially start the day. Before we know it, hours have slipped by without us accomplishing anything beyond downing a cup of coffee, dashing off a few emails, and dishing with our coworkers around the water cooler. By the time the workday wraps up, we're so exhausted and defeated that any motivation to accomplish something in the evening has vanished.
But according to time management expert Laura Vanderkam, mornings hold the key to taking control of our schedules. If we use them wisely, we can build habits that will allow us to lead happier, more productive lives.
Drawing on real-life anecdotes and scientific research that shows why the early hours of the day are so important, Vanderkam reveals how successful people use mornings to help them accomplish things that are often impossible to take care of later in the day. While many of us are still in bed, these folks are scoring daily victories to improve their health, careers, and personal lives without sacrificing their sanity. For instance, former PepsiCo chairman and CEO Steve Reinemund would rise at 5:00 a.m., run four miles, pray, and eat breakfast with his family before heading to work to run a Fortune 500 company.
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast is a fun, practical guide that will inspire you to rethink your morning routine and jump-start your life before the day has even begun.
A fresh, personal, and entertaining exploration of a topic that concerns all of us: how to be more productive at work and in every facet of our lives.
Chris Bailey turned down lucrative job offers to pursue a lifelong dream—to spend a year performing a deep dive experiment into the pursuit of productivity, a subject he had been enamored with since he was a teenager. After obtaining his business degree, he created a blog to chronicle a year-long series of productivity experiments he conducted on himself, where he also continued his research and interviews with some of the world's foremost experts, from Charles Duhigg to David Allen. Among the experiments that he tackled: Bailey went several weeks with getting by on little to no sleep; he cut out caffeine and sugar; he lived in total isolation for 10 days; he used his smartphone for just an hour a day for three months; he gained ten pounds of muscle mass; he stretched his work week to 90 hours; a late riser, he got up at 5:30 every morning for three months—all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work.
· and the concept of productive procrastination.
In an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging read, Bailey offers a treasure trove of insights and over 25 best practices that will help you accomplish more.
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.
The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more—and faster—decisions about our lives than ever before. No wonder, then, that the average American reports frequently losing car keys or reading glasses, missing appointments, and feeling worn out by the effort required just to keep up.
But somehow some people become quite accomplished at managing information flow. In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel—and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time.
With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives. This Is Your Brain on Music showed how to better play and appreciate music through an understanding of how the brain works. The Organized Mind shows how to navigate the churning flood of information in the twenty-first century with the same neuroscientific perspective.
Be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle: that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.
Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced today's business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies.
The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives.
As the former chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, author Michael Hyatt gained insight on the importance of combining compelling products with a meaningful platform. Now, with nearly three hundred thousand followers on Twitter, his large and growing platform serves as the foundation for his own successful writing, speaking, and business coaching practice. In this straightforward how-to, he offers down-to-earth guidance on crafting an effective and meaningful online platform to help readers extend their influence, monetize it, and build a sustainable career.Social media technologies have provided unprecedented opportunities for getting noticed and earning money in an increasingly noisy world. Platform goes behind the scenes into the world of social media success. You'll discover what bestselling authors, public speakers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and other creatives are doing differently to gain contacts, connections, and followers and win customers in today's crowded marketplace. With proven strategies, easy-to-replicate formulas, and practical tips, this book makes it easier, less expensive, and more possible than ever to stand out from the crowd and launch a business.
By now it's clear that whether you're promoting a business, a product, or yourself, social media is near the top of what determines your success or failure. And there are countless pundits, authors, and consultants eager to advise you.
But there's no one quite like Guy Kawasaki, the legendary former chief evangelist for Apple and one of the pioneers of business blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, Tumbling, and much, much more. Now Guy has teamed up with Peg Fitzpatrick, who he says is the best social-media person he's ever met, to offer The Art of Social Media—the one essential guide you need to get the most bang for your time, effort, and money.
With over one hundred practical tips, tricks, and insights, Guy and Peg present a bottom-up strategy to produce a focused, thorough, and compelling presence on the most popular social-media platforms. They guide you through steps to build your foundation, amass your digital assets, optimize your profile, attract more followers, and effectively integrate social media and blogging.
Do you feel like you're always behind the 8 ball? Do you get to the end of your day but feel like you accomplished nothing? Do you have a tendency to put things off until the last minute?
We all tend to delay things from time to time, and some days, we're just swamped with work when there's so many things to be done. Even the most organized people will struggle with time management at one point or another.
Dominic Wolff addresses these problems and more in his latest book, "Tame Your Gmail in 5 Easy Steps with David Allen's GTD." This book will show you how to manage your time better and actually get things done!
Wolff, an author and advocate of productivity tools, has written several books about using the famous Getting Things Done (the time management system developed by David Allen) in combination with different software applications - first with Evernote, and now Google's Gmail, Tasks, Calendar, and Drive. Yes, the power of GTD and all these Google services are combined in a single book.
Let's say you have a thousand things going on at work. You can simplify this by putting incoming/pending tasks into different inboxes. Doing so will allow you to execute all work as bite-size chunks and you'll know exactly what to do anywhere, anytime. That's basically what Getting Things Done is.
Your emails will be organized into a clear-cut systemYour appointments will be organized so that you'll never miss any eventYou'll remember anything and everythingYou can see what needs to be done wherever you are, whether you're on your computer or are out and aboutYou can get more things doneThe best part is that you can achieve the GTD mindset with Google's services in just five simple steps!
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the alt right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures right through to its mainstream expression. Kill All Normies explores some of the cultural genealogies and past parallels of these styles and subcultures, drawing from transgressive styles of 60s libertinism and conservative movements, to make the case for a rejection of the perpetual cultural turn.
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work, and getting more out of every day.
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles.
Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction.
A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.
Do you want to easily accomplish your to-do-list in a day? Do you want to be less busy in life? Do you wish to have more time?
Here's the thing. Most people are so busy all the time that they no longer recognize that responsibilities are forgotten and relationships are not strengthened. With the huge pile of tasks undone, stack of mails unread, and heap of post-its that seem cluttered all around, people get busier and life becomes more stressful.
Take some time off and start organizing your strategy to get everything under control. Read on How to Get Things Done with OneNote and discover your way to productivity and efficiency.
Dominic Wolff, a seasoned author and business owner, found success in his business career improvising David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) with Microsoft's OneNote. With the two systems combined, Wolff assures that you'll get your professional and personal lives under control.
Accomplish your to-do-list easily. Become less busy in life. Have more time. Live an organized life with just one click.
How to Finally Stop Procrastinating and Take Action!
Do you procrastinate? If you said yes, then join the club! We all do that from time to time. However, when the procrastination becomes a dominant player in your life, a change is needed.
Overcoming Procrastination is your guide on how to beat procrastination, get stuff done, and move closer to your goals and dreams.
DOWNLOAD the book and learn 44 actionable ways to stop procrastination for good.
But this just a fraction of procrastination-busting tips in this book. So get it now, start reading it immediately, and take control of your life again!
Download this book and learn 44 ways to help with procrastination, starting today.
FIND THEM ON FACEBOOKFacebook makes it easy for businesses like yours to share photos, videos, and posts to reach, engage, and sell to more than 1 billion active users. Advertising expert Perry Marshall is joined by co-authors Keith Krance and Thomas Meloche as he walks you through Facebook Advertising and its nuances to help you pinpoint your ideal audience and gain a ten-fold return on your investment.
Now in its third edition, Ultimate Guide to Facebook Advertising takes you further than Facebook itself by exploring what happens before customers click on your ads and what needs to happen after—10 seconds later, 10 minutes later, and in the following days and weeks.
You'll discover how to: Maximize your ad ROI with newsfeeds, videos, and branded content Create custom audiences from your contact lists, video views, and page engagement Use the Facebook Campaign Blueprint proven to generate your first 100 conversions Boost your Facebook ads using the Audience Network and Instagram Follow the three-step formula for successful video ads Maximize campaigns and increase conversions on all traffic to your website Track and retarget engaged users by leveraging the Power of the Pixel Make every page on your website 5-10 percent more effective overnight "If anybody can make practical sense of Facebook for marketers, it's Perry. He has his finger on its truth—as advertising media, not social media. He also realizes there is a short window of time during which it offers greatest opportunity. He identified this with Google AdWords. Now, this book shows how to capitalize on ideal timing with this media. Finally, he is a well-disciplined direct-response practitioner who holds this accountable for ROI. I bestow my 'No B.S.' blessing."
—Dan S. Kennedy, legendary direct marketing advisor and author of the No B.S. series.
Most of us live with the stubborn idea that we'll always have tomorrow. But sooner or later all of our tomorrows will run out. Each day that you postpone the hard work and succumb to the clutter that chokes creativity, discipline, and innovation will result in a net deficit to the world, to your company, and to yourself. Die Empty is a tool for individuals and companies that aren't willing to put off their best work. Todd Henry explains the forces that keep people in stagnation and introduces a three-part process for tapping into your passion: Excavate: Find the bedrock of your work to discover what drives you. Cultivate: Learn how to develop the curiosity, humility, and persistence that save you from getting stuck in ruts. Resonate: Learn how your unique brilliance can inspire others. Henry shows how to find and sustain your passion and curiosity, even in tough times.
Covering the latest breaking news in Google AdWords, the fifth edition introduces revised, expanded and new chapters covering Enhanced Campaigns, Google AdWord's Express, Google's Product Listing Ads, and the introduction to Google's Universal Analytics. Nuances in Big Data advertising are also revealed and expanded sections and necessary updates have been added throughout.
Readers are given the latest information paired with current screenshots, fresh examples, and new techniques. Coached by AdWords experts Perry Marshall, Mike Rhodes, and Bryan Todd advertisers learn how to build an aggressive, streamlined AdWords campaign proven to increase their search engine visibility, consistently capture clicks, double their website traffic, and increase their sales. Whether a current advertiser or new to AdWords, this guide is a necessary handbook.
One of the world's premier business consultants and personal success experts, Brian Tracy has devoted more than 25 years to studying the most powerful time management practices used by the most successful people in every arena. Now, in Time Power, Brian reveals his comprehensive system designed to help readers increase their productivity and income exponentially -- in just weeks! Filled with hundreds of powerful, proven tools and techniques, this book shows readers how to: * gain two more productive hours each day * make better decisions, faster! * set clear goals and focus on higher-value activities * manage multitask jobs more efficiently * overcome the people problems that can sap their time * use the five tools and techniques that will make them more productive for the rest of their lives * and much more! Overflowing with quick and effective time-saving strategies, Brian Tracy's Time Power lets readers in on the secrets to being more productive, earning more money, and getting more satisfaction from life.
Executive time management secrets from a life at Disney. During Lee Cockerell's career at Disney as the Senior Operating Executive of Walt Disney World Resorts, he led a team of 40,000 Cast Members (employees) and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks and the ESPN Sports Complex. As you can imagine, Lee had to become a time management expert, first as a means of survival and then as a way to help others make the best use of their time. The time management secrets he developed have become one of his most requested corporate training lectures and are now available to you in this tell-all book. However, this book is not just about Time Management. It is about Life Management. "Management" is defined as the act of controlling. The executive time management secrets contained in this book will help you keep all parts of your life under control and jump-start your personal and professional growth.
Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done—the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. In our current era of massive overload, this is harder than ever before. So how do you get more of the right things done without confusing mere activity for actual productivity?
When we take God's purposes into account, a revolutionary insight emerges. Surprisingly, we see that the way to be productive is to put others first—to make the welfare of other people our motive and criteria in determining what to do (what's best next). As both the Scriptures and the best business thinkers show, generosity is the key to unlocking our productivity. It is also the key to finding meaning and fulfillment in our work.
• Why good works are not just rare and special things like going to Africa, but anything you do in faith even tying your shoes.
• How to create a mission statement for your life that actually works.
• How to delegate to people in a way that actually empowers them.
• How to overcome time killers like procrastination, interruptions, and multitasking by turning them around and making them work for you.
• How to process workflow efficiently and get your email inbox to zero every day.
• How your work and life can transform the world socially, economically, and spiritually, and connect to God's global purposes.
By anchoring your understanding of productivity in God's purposes and plan, What's Best Next will give you a practical approach for increasing your effectiveness in everything you do.
Robert C. Pozen, one of the business world's most successful—and productive—executives, reveals the surprising secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. Extreme Productivity is an essential handbook for every business professional, empowering them with proven methods for prioritizing efficiently and maximizing time at work, while leading a full and productive personal life as well.
You've heard of people living "the good life." They always seem to have plenty of time, money, and energy to fulfill their goals and dreams. Their secret? A simple life.
Pure and Simple is based on the 80/20 principle and suggests steps to simplify your life, accomplish more, and increase the quality of your time and efforts – all with less work!
- limit your choices in everyday life. Discover four areas of your life that can be greatly improved.
- declutter your physical and digital space. This doesn't mean living with less than 100 things.
- use the golden rules of simplification. Make decisions more quickly and with less effort.
- cut unnecessary time commitments. Have the time to reach your goals and fulfill your dreams.
- build a positive outlook. Learn to overcome a negative mindset to better enjoy your life.
All these suggestions are laid out to help you shift away from the frustrating mindset of "fixing" your life by working harder, gaining more possessions, and holding on to what's truly limiting you in life.
Each step is supported with research by leaders in psychology, behavioral studies, and neuroscience as well as examples of real habits by successful people such as Warren Buffet and President Obama.
Once you finish, you'll be better prepared to take your life to the next level. You'll be able to enjoy the simplicity and ease of a life without unnecessary and exhausting demands on your time and energy. More importantly, you'll be able to stick to your simple, new habits instead of defaulting back to complexity.
Buy the book now to accomplish more in less time and get more joy out of life than you thought possible.
So often, managers' performance reviews, their salary increases, and basically their fate within the company in general are judged by the results they deliver . . . yet those results are usually produced by a team of employees working under them. Which means that perhaps the most important and broad-reaching aspect of a manager's job is the ability to delegate and supervise extremely well.In Delegation & Supervision, success expert Brian Tracy reveals time-tested ways any manager can use to boost the performance and productivity of their employees, including how to:• Define work, assign it, and set measurable, targeted standards for performance • Match skills to job requirements • Use Management by Objectives to delegate longer-term tasks to trusted team members • Monitor, control, and keep on top of projects with minimum effort • Turn delegation into a teaching tool and build the confidence of your staff • Avoid reverse delegation • Free up time for higher-level tasks only you can tackle • And much moreWhen done right, delegation and supervision will allow your employees to learn, grow, and become more capable. And you will impress the higher-ups with all that you and your team accomplished. When done wrong . . . well, you can't afford to get it wrong.
Feeling overwhelmed with work and life demands? Rushing, multitasking, or relying on fancy devices and apps won't help. The answer is to create the conditions for two awesome hours of peak productivity per day.
Recognizing when to effective flip the switch on our automatic thinking; Scheduling tasks based on their "processing demand" and recovery time; Learning how to direct attention, rather than avoid distractions; Feeding and moving our bodies in ways that prep us for success; Identifying what matters in our environment to be at the top of our mental game.
We are capable of impressive feats of comprehension, motivation, thinking, and performance when our brain and biological systems are functioning optimally. Two Awesome Hours will show you how to be your most productive every day.
Results are what matter the most to you. You want to be a reliable producer of value in your chosen domain: whether it's your career, business, sports, studies, non-profit endeavors, or any other undertaking requiring intense focus.
You'd like to learn how to become more productive, but your time is precious, and you don't have time for a five-hundred-page book only to discover that you can summarize it with two sentences.
- six methods to recharge for higher productivity—because without a proper rest protocol you'll be unlikely to ever operate at an optimal level.
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When was the last time you heard that or said it yourself? A few days ago? Yesterday? Today?
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Time is your most precious commodity – everyone only has so much – so why do you spend it like you have an unlimited supply? When the Grim Reaper finally comes for you, will you smile, remembering all the experiences you had that made you happy, or will you think back with a tear at all the "what ifs" you missed because you just "didn't have the time"?
- and the silent robbers of your time that do nothing but steal time from you (but don't worry, you'll learn how to overcome them).
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We are living in an age of unprecedented creative stimulation—via the internet, social media, all-pervasive technology, and an "always on" working culture.
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Dig a little deeper, and the biggest concern for many creatives is a nagging sense that their most important work is being left undone.
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Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction—an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds; we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos; we work longer hours each year; and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans.
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A practical, tested program to overcome procrastination by achieving set goals, managing time, enlisting support, and handling stress.
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In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don't cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja. Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage you will get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, beat procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder. Written by one of the UK's foremost productivity experts, How to be a Productivity Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide to staying cool, calm and collected, getting more done, and learning to love your work again.
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Cut out the small talk: Small talk builds superficial relationships, which is a grand waste of time. Ask better questions to make instant connections that'll benefit you for years to come.
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Stephen Ellefson (born October 16, 1954) is a Canadian Paralympic athlete. He competed in alpine skiing in the 1988 Winter Paralympics, winning a bronze medal. Later, he competed in wheelchair athletics events in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Paralympics, including the marathon.

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John Taylor, nicknamed "Red", was a Negro league pitcher in the 1920s.

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 Something Happened in Lebanon, They Were Here!
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What happened to Buster from 'Mythbusters'?
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Something Bizarre Happened in Pascagoula and No One Knows Why!
What REALLY Happened To Macaulay Culkin?
It Finally Happened... The CTS-V is BROKEN!


Yesterday, i was reading the Quran and 'bumped' into these two verses which i felt has so much relevance to the current world we live in. They were like techniques to address the harsh people around us.
Are we the slaves of the Most Beneficent who walked on earth with humility? Have we addressed the harsh people around us with mild words of gentleness?
1) Request another person (mediator), whom the "difficult"/harsh person/people admires/respect, to advise him/her or share with him/her experiences, insights etc so as to enlighten him/her to be more polite, more understanding, & give more respect to others, no matter whom they are. Respect others like we want to be respected. The mediator, of course must be careful not to reveal/give clues of our identity (the one that felt hurt).
Very interesting method, i must say. The challenge is to get the right mediator, you agree? Someone who is respected by the person we intend to advice too. Have you already succeed using this way? Do share with us your updates!


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Part Two of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's 15 month-long Opening Festival continues from late September with performances in the stunning Bradshaw Hall, intimate Recital Hall and other state-of-the-art performance spaces.
This autumn, Conservatoire Principal Julian Lloyd Webber conducts the first concert in Orchestra of the Swan's brand new residency and three daytime concert series get underway – Lunchtime Music, Afternoon Music and Commuter Concerts. There's a celebration of the piano in chamber music with its very own festival, a concert celebrating former Conservatoire Principal Granville Bantock's 150thanniversary and a number of events in the Birmingham Literature Festival.
In November, the Festival of Children's Literature features three former Children's laureates: Julia Donaldson (with a special guest appearance from The Gruffalo), the celebrated writer Jacqueline Wilson and author and illustrator Chris Riddell.
Throughout the autumn and winter, a series of celebrity guests includes acclaimed baritone Roderick Williams, award-winning cellist Laura van der Heijden and 2014 BBC Young Musician, pianistMartin James Bartlett.
Add to that a wealth of exceptional talent nurtured from within the Conservatoire's own ranks, creative contemporary compositions and grass roots music-making from the local scene, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a hub for performing arts in the city.
Wigmore Hall regulars and winners of the 2015 Lyon Chamber Music Competition, the Castalian Quartet give the first of two recitals this season. They're joined by pianist Daniel Lebhardt. YCAT (Young Concert Artists Trust) is a leading charity for young artist development and management.
Dr Cuillin Bantock, the composer's grandson, introduces this celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Granville Bantock, former Principal of Birmingham Conservatoire and co-founder of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. BBC Music Magazine Rising Star Maria Marchant performs Bantock's piano music along with a selection of Impromptus by Sibelius whose work Bantock championed in the UK.
The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire hosts events in the Birmingham Literature Festival including National Poetry Day with Liz Berry, Roy McFarlane and Jane Commane; Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War; The Book of Birmingham Launch Event; Caitlin Moran & Sali Hughes.
Korean-born British violinist Joo Yeon Sir studied at the Purcell School and at the Royal College of Music where she won the President's Award. She's also the winner of the prestigious Arts Club Karl Jenkins Classical Music Award (in association with Classic FM).
This is a chance to escape the traffic and unwind after a hard day's graft, with an hour or so of glorious music as French-born oboeist Olivier Stankiewicz launches a brand new series of Thursday Commuter Concerts. Winner of several international awards, he is also Principal Oboe of the London Symphony Orchestra. He's joined by Ashok Gupta (piano) and Louise Buchberger (cello) in transcriptions and sonatas by Mozart, Bach and Devienne.
Three former Children's Laureates – Julia Donaldson (with a special guest appearance from the Gruffalo), Jacqueline Wilson and Chris Riddell – join the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Federation of Children's Book Groups. Throughout the day there will be talks, book signings and a literature-lover's haven: a specially curated bookshop installation.
Martin James Bartlett possesses a fearless technique and a wisdom and elegance far beyond his years. Since winning the 2014 BBC Young Musician competition, he has performed with major orchestras including at home and abroad, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras. His programme of lyrical and virtuosic music includes several Gershwin highlights including Wild's fiendish studies.
The very first concert of Orchestra of the Swan's new residency at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire sees violinist Tai Murray play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. The orchestra is conducted by Conservatoire Principal, Julian Lloyd Webber in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro overture and Symphony No 25, Mendelssohn's youthful String Sinfonia No 6 and a new short work by a Conservatoire student. In a pre-concert talk (1.30pm), Christopher Morley discusses opportunities for aspiring young musicians with Julian Lloyd Webber and Tai Murray, one of the few African-American musicians to be involved in classical music.
A two-day international symposium (9-10 November) marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of François Couperin. The programme includes contributions from eminent scholars and a harpsichord recital by world-renowned interpreter of the composer's music, Davitt Moroney (9 November). Later in the month, students from the Early Music, Vocal and Recorder departments present recent discoveries, a selection of harpsichord pieces and a new reconstruction of Couperin's Cecilian motet (22 November).
A four-day festival celebrating the piano in chamber music comprises a competition, masterclasses and celebrity recitals featuring jury members and professional guest artists with performances by the London Bridge Trio, Gould Piano Trio, Katya Apekisheva, Michael Gurevich, Robin Ireland, Alice Neary, Christoph Richter, John Thwaites and Daniel Tong. The Grand Final will see the winners receive £4000, engagements including London's Wigmore Hall and a recording with Resonus Classics. The opening and closing events will be live-streamed on Classic FM.


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COOPER PORTRAIT DRAWING PROJECT: Installed!
Various shots of drawing mural as it is installed.
Randy Engstrom, Founding Director of Youngstown Cultural Arts Center--pointing out his image representing one of the many individuals that have contributed towards the making of this new hub of creativity to the Seattle Arts Community.
And here it is...quickly installed for the Grand Opening of the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center and Cooper Artist Lofts (within the same building) last week. The Gala was on Friday, February 24th, and what a night it was. I have heard reports ranging from 1500 to 3000 visitors attended---and as one of the artists with their studio (live/work space) door open to the public, it sure felt like 3000 or more. We all had Gala-Hangovers that lasted throughout the following weekend! The hallways were a ghost-town as we must have all been hibernating in recovery-mode.
What a success the evening was in numbers, that's for sure. A truly grand and brilliant beginning for this renovated elementary school (est. 1917) turned into Arts Center and Artist Lofts. BRAVO to DNDA for a fantastic unveiling to the city of Seattle.
Inspiration is the artist's muse; the fire; the fuel. And inspiration was sparked when I moved into Cooper Artist's Lofts on January 1, 2006.
My muse was clear that some kind of recognition must be made, a commemoration, a representation on a grand scale to match the impressive amount of collaborative human effort that went into renovating the building in which you now stand. And I took it upon myself to do just that—to make a Portrait Drawing of Cooper Artist Lofts, specifically for the Grand Opening event.
This 22 foot in length drawing shows portraits of fifteen individuals (and there are many more than I had time to draw) who have made and continue to make this beautifully restored building a real center of creativity; a vital and significant addition to the city of Seattle's arts community. They are DNDA Staff and Administration, Walsh Construction, and tenants of the building. While there are many faces to be seen in this drawing, I invite you to consider viewing the piece as a whole—as a collective spirit that is generous, intelligent, creative, thoughtful, energetic, inspired, and fun.
The drawing began on Feb. 2nd and was finished Feb. 21st, 2006.
COOPER PORTRAIT DRAWING PROJECT: I'm in the Seattle Times!
Check it out! A great article covering Cooper Artist Lofts and Youngstown Cultural Arts Center--the history of the building--past and present--including a picture of me working on the Portrait Project!! Click on image for a larger version.
Photo Caption: Barbara Fugate, a resident artist at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, works on a charcoal portrait of Steu Thompson of the construction company that worked on the center. It is part of a mural of those involved with the project.
go to www.youngstownarts.org for more information.
Thank you to Kate Stannard, who was my final sitter today. Kate arrived with a gift for me--in thanks for undertaking (and creating) this project--a perfect example of the generous spirit shown by the folks of Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association. Kate Stannard is Project Manager for Community Development of the Delridge Neighboorhood and a Fund Raiser for Affordable Housing, as well. For those in the Seattle area, you may be familiar with West Seattle's Longfellow Creek Trail--Kate was instrumental in making that a reality too. Kate has worked for DNDA for the past eight years.
As I was making this drawing of Kate, I realized that she is both the final sitter for this drawing and the first image (on the left hand side of the 20 foot drawing)--like a double entendre; a bookend! Perfect. Thanks Kate!
A very special beginning to the day today in my studio...I was graced by the presence a Mother and her baby to draw from for my Cooper Portrait Drawing Project. These are all too rare occasions, for me at least...and what a treat.
The baby was a perfect model, contentedly sitting on Mother's lap while she described to him my drawings covering the walls---and he seemed authentically interested...until he fell sound asleep. There's some meaning/comment there, I know. In any case, within 30 minutes I had my drawing of two more residents in the building--and one more to go this afternoon.
Both Mother and Baby live in Cooper Artists Lofts.
Tonight's portrait session makes the full dozen! I've drawn from twelve individuals associated in various capacities with Cooper Artist Lofts & Youngstown Cultural Arts Center--and twelve was my goal, so today is a happy day. Tomorrow I'll break the dozen with two more sitters to go before the drawing is prepared for hanging on Wednesday morning.
And my sitter this evening is Robble, my floor's resident pooch--a very well mannered and ever-curious Boston Terrier. Robble is just a pup, a mere eleven months old. Robble's owners (adopted parents) are both singers and musicians: Amy Steadman and Quentin Smith formerly from the east coast. Quentin Smith sings with the band Vaux and Amy is currently working on a new recording of her own music.
Two Cooper Portrait Drawings in one afternoon, followed by a visit by Seattle Times Photographer, Jim (didn't get the last name)--busy day in the studio!
Jim, from the Seattle Times, was in the building today photographing many aspects of the building for an upcoming article about Cooper Artist Lofts and the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center--highlighting our Grand Opening on Friday night. Keep a look out for the article in the next few days---they didn't reveal the day it will be printed... If I am pictured, you'll see me in the process of drawing from Stu Thompson, Assistant Superintendent of Walsh Construction.
Stu Thompson has been working with the Walsh crew on this building for the past year---pretty much to the day today for Stu. I can only imagine the transformation Stu and the rest of his crew has seen...hands-on...here at Cooper. The building had been vacant for the past 16 years after serving the community as an elementary school beginning in 1917. Fantastic work, Stu (and the rest of Walsh Construction)---the building is gorgeous! Many, many thanks for all your work.
This afternoon's sitter was Flynn Bickley, tenant of Cooper Artist Lofts. Flynn is a mixed media artist, as well as an expert swimmer and swimming instructor. You can view Flynn's artwork during our Grand Opening event happening THIS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH: 6-10PM. Go to www.youngstownarts.org for more information on the event.
With Flynn's portrait drawing, you might be able to see a seam in the paper. I've added another roll of Tableau (Japanese Rice Paper) to the piece--I ran out of room! The original roll is 16 feet long, so beginning with Flynn's addition, it will be growing well beyond that. Come to the Grand Opening the see this 16 feet-plus... drawing on the ground level Cultural Arts Center.
The sun rays beaming through my skylights were a perfect setting for today's portrait sitter, Gina Hall.
Gina Hall is Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association's Fund Development Director. A radiant personality, genuine and forthright---no wonder the financial support and physical renovation of this Historic Cooper Artist Lofts & Arts Center has been so well done. With a team of folks like those I've drawn from so far for this portrait project--nothing other than wonderful can be said of their endeavors and resultant lofts and arts center building.
Here is another sneak preview of the drawing in progress...rolled out on my floor.
With my sitter today it took a new turn...Paul Fischburg, Executive Director of Delridge Neighboorhoods Development Association visited my studio for his addition to the project. Graciously giving me an hour of his day, he sat while I drew and developed a drawing of him with a more materials than previously used. I used a few colors of soft pastels along with the sepia colored artist chalk---on top of a previous head I scrubbed out (I had made two drawings of that person on the roll). This lended more dimension and an anchor, if you will, to the drawing as a whole. Just what it needed. Thanks Paul.
Fund raising, working in collaboration with construction and architecture, just to name a few...a woman of many talents. Phillipa Nye, Project Manager, Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association.


Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by akins10, Oct 12, 2005.
I got I Tunes 6 but when I got to the TV show page it is just blank. There is nothing there. I have 7.0.3 of Quicktime.
Not sure. I have Quicktime 7.0.2 and it works for me although it just started. Maybe try again.


Traditional network television programming has always followed the same script: executives approve a pilot, order a trial number of episodes, and broadcast them, expecting viewers to watch a given show on their television sets at the same time every week. But then came Netflix´s House of Cards. Netflix gauged the show´s potential from data it had gathered about subscribers´ preferences, ordered two seasons without seeing a pilot, and uploaded the first thirteen episodes all at once for viewers to watch whenever they wanted on the devices of their choice. In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries - and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We´re living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries. Just about everything is affected: pricing, production, distribution, piracy. Smith and Telang discuss niche products and the long tail, product differentiation, price discrimination, and incentives for users not to steal content. To survive and succeed, businesses have to adapt rapidly and creatively. Smith and Telang explain how. How can companies discover who their customers are, what they want, and how much they are willing to pay for it? Data. The entertainment industries, must learn to play a little ´´moneyball.´´ The bottom line: follow the data. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. 1. Language: English. Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon. Audio sample: http://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/008542/bk_brll_008542_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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A jury of distinguished scholars and scientists, including Albert Einstein and Orville Wright thought enough of Jimmy Yen to vote him one of the top ten Modern Revolutionaries of the Twentieth Century. Yet all he did was teach Chinese peasants to read.
What made that so amazing was that for four thousand years reading and writing in China was only done by the Scholars. "Everybody" knew, including the peasants themselves, that peasants were incapable of learning.
That thoroughly ingrained cultural belief was Jimmy Yen's first impossible" barrier. The second barrier was the Chinese language itself, consisting of 40,000 characters, each character signifying a different word! The third barrier was the lack of technology and good roads. How could Jimmy Yen reach the 350 million peasants in China?
Impossible odds, an impossibly huge goal-and yet he had almost attained it when he was forced (by Communism) to leave his country.
Did he give up? No. He learned from defeat and expanded his goal: Teach the rest of the Third World to read. Practical reading programs, like the ones he invented in China, started pumping out literate people like a gushing oil well in the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Kenya, Columbia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ghana, India-people became literate. For the first time in their entire genetic history, they had access to the accumulated knowledge of the human race.
For those of us who take literacy for granted, I'd like you to consider for a moment how narrow your world would be if you'd never learned how to read and there was no access to radios or TVs.
180,000 Chinese peasants were hired by the Allied Forces in WW1 as laborers in the war effort. Most of them had no idea-not a clue-where England, Germany or France was, they didn't know what they were being hired to do, and didn't even know what a war was!
Try to grasp, if you will, the vacancy, the darkness, the lack that existed in those people because they couldn't read. Jimmy Yen was a savior to them.
What was the secret of Jimmy Yen's success? He found a real need, and found in himself a strong desire to answer that need. And he took some action: He tried to do something about it even though it seemed impossible. He worked long hours. And he started with what he had in front of him and gradually took on more and more, a little upon a little.
The English author Thomas Carlyle said, "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." And that's what Jimmy Yen did. He started out teaching a few peasants to read, with no desks, no pens, no money, no overhead projectors. He started from where he found himself and did what was clearly at hand.
And that's all you need to do. Start now. Start here. And do what lies clearly at hand.
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October 9, 2012: As part of a nationwide movement, 11 Walmart associates walked off the job today in Laurel, Md., backed by strong support from the community and members of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) union.
Micah Turner announced on October 6, 2012 at an Occupy DC rally on Freedom Plaza trhat he has defected from the US Army, having been AWOL for weeks. After giving a 25 minute interview, he immediatly left the area, well ahead of any reaction team.


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Taking an Olympic break: C-U next Tuesday: I want one: Parrots: Carrots: and The Candwich.
Super spiffing at the Castle this morn, sunny, warm and calm with the threat of big temperatures later, perfect, the strawberries are just about ready to pick as I lay on the sun lounger, the Talk Talk internet connection is still crap and the kitchen is overflowing with defunct adding machines.
So it looks as if I will be taking a couple of hours orf later this Wednesday.
Unlike those "hard working" MPs who will allegedly avoid the transport delays facing the rest of London's commuters during next year's Olympics by taking their earliest summer break for more than 30 years.
Parliament will rise on 13 July, a week earlier than usual, avoiding the restrictions put in place for the Games.
The extra leave gives MPs about 17 days more time off in the summer than an ordinary worker is entitled to in a year.
Lazy bastards, nice to see that "we are all in this together" is still working (unlike the MPs).
Dahn in Sarfampton there is trouble afoot
A strike by council traffic wardens could lead to drivers enjoying a week's free parking in Southampton.
The wardens, known as civil enforcement officers, are to walk out on Tuesday in a dispute over pay.
Southampton is one of more than 270 local authorities which has control over parking and keeps the cash raised from fines; permits and money pumped into meters or pay and display machines.
It is estimated that the strike will cost Southampton £100,000 in lost parking revenue.
A spokesman for Southampton council said that managers would step in for the 33 enforcement officers who are expected to take industrial action.
It means that some parking tickets will be issued, especially in council car parks which will be more closely monitored.
A Southampton spokesman said that the council hoped that motorists would be honest and pay for their parking.
I do like an optimist.
Over in the ex colonies
Police in an east Georgia town say they're investigating how someone could have stolen thousands of dollars in diesel fuel from a local truck stop over the past several months.
The Statesboro Herald reports that Metter police discovered the thefts — which total at least $50,000 — this week at Jay's Truck Stop along Interstate 16.
Metter police investigator Justin Wells said the same type of thefts might be occurring in neighboring counties as well.
Wells said the suspects are believed to have some type of device to manipulate the readings on gas pumps.
Wells said the thefts date back at least a year, and the total loss could be far higher than $50,000.
I want one! I really want one! Get me one NOW!!!!
Fiz and Buzz on the piste
A Loughborough woman is so devoted to her pet parrots she takes them shopping, cycling, walking - and even on her skiing holidays.
Mother-of-three Jane Hartley, 52, rarely leaves home without black headed caique parrots Fiz and Buzz on her arm.
The brightly-coloured birds accompany her each morning on the school run, help her take the dogs for a walk and sit on her arm while she does the weekly shop.
The pampered parrots are even invited on her annual skiing holiday in the Alps and sit in her pocket while she zooms down the black runs.
Mrs Hartley said: "I know that if I kept them in a cage all the time they would have a miserable existence, so I take them out and about with me.
"I do get a lot of people stopping and staring, but most seem to find it quite amusing. They are only small birds so they are easy to carry around."
Makes you wonder who is "piste".
Dahn Unda and right a bit
Jail inmates are being offered carrot sticks to help them kick the smoking habit as New Zealand's prison prepare to go smoke-free, The Southland Times reported Tuesday.
Citing an internal memo, the newspaper reported there had been a national directive issued to supply two carrot sticks a day to each prisoner as part of a smoking cessation policy, with the document detailing that one jumbo carrot provided 16 sticks.
Beven Hanlon, a spokesman for the union representing prison staff, said at first he thought the directive was a joke, and he would be surprised if it lasted.
"I don't think it is one of [the Department of Corrections'] best ideas but it is worth a try," he said.
Last week was the final week that prisoners could buy tobacco products, with the items to be formally classified as contraband within New Zealand's 20 jails from July 1.
Oh yeah, that is really going to help, unless they give them a dip to go with them that is.
Bread in a can
The Candwich, which has a shelf life of a year, has just gone on sale in the US and online, selling for £7 for a four-pack or £44 for 24.
Twelve flavours are planned, including US-style peanut butter and grape jelly, BBQ chicken and pepperoni pizza.
The peanut butter version requires diners to spread sachets of the filling on to the bread but the rest have the fillings baked inside, like a pasty.
Creator Mark Kirkland, from Markonefoods, said: 'My original idea was to stack cookies in a soft drink can to sell in soft drink vending machines.
'I started looking for a technology for shelf stable sandwiches, which I wanted because it was a healthy and convenient meal.'
The Candwich's long shelf life is achieved by controlling water, pH and oxygen levels in the packaging.
Just what we need, a one year old sandwich, mind you British Rail……..
That's it: I'm orf to check out Graphene.
And today's thought: 'A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.' -Dan Quayle
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