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Today we're going to talk about the TRAF system. I've talked about it before and it's extremely important to your time management, life effectiveness, and peace of mind. Every piece of incoming data into your life, be it an email, text, voice mail, piece of paper,...
Every once and a while I'll make a "Books I've Been Reading Lately" post where I will have a quick review on some of the books I've read in the last few months. It won't be ALL the books I've been reading. I read a hell of a lot of books and that would take too much...
I started out at age 18 with no job, no money, no education, and sub-par people skills. By age 19 I had my own house (a condo, actually, but I owned it). By age 20 I was making the inflation equivalent of $72,000 a year, driving my cool sports car (that...
Many years ago I rented one of those storage unit thingies. You know, the garages with the bright orange doors that you rent monthly to store all of your crap that you really should throw away but can't bring yourself to? In my case, I actually had a reason in that I...
Way back in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was standing in front of a magnetron radar. Suddenly, and for seemingly no reason, the chocolate bar he had in his pocket melted, as if by magic. Curious, he got some unpopped popcorn and placed it in front of the...
There's been a lot of talk in politics over the last two years about the "one percent" and the "one percenters". Usually it's a negative connotation. Today I'm going to forget about the political side of the discussion and focus on the financial side, which to me is...
There once was an independently-owned supermarket with a clever and effective management team. They regularly met with customers and received feedback. Proactively talking to customers and determining what they want. So far, so good. During one of the meetings the...
Every time I mention my plans to move out of the United States in a few years, as I did in the last post, I suddenly get a lot of comments and email about it...namely people either objecting or enthusasticially asking me lots of questions. I've mentioned this a lot...
Technology was supposed to help us work less. Nope. The average American workday is now 7:42am to 7:19pm. That doesn't mean people are actually in the office the whole time. Because of technology, when the typical office worker leaves the office, they're not done...
Rewind to about 20 years ago. I was in my early twenties, just learning how to travel on my own. I flew from my home in the Pacific Northwest to San Jose, California for an important business conference I was very excited to attend. This was before the internet and...
Listed here are some of the more creative business tactics I've seen in my day. These stories are all true. Hopefully they will stimulate your brain enough to come up with your own cool business techniques to make or save money. Effortless Selling I once worked with a...
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, nor is physical fitness my area of expertise in any way. I'm just relaying here what's worked for me. I hate getting sick. I mean, I hate it. Fortunately I don't get sick very often. It happens perhaps once every 18 - 24 months or less....
My favorite evil food, my favorite break-your-diet-and-be-bad food, is the almighty Taco Bell. Yes, I know everything on the menu is just different arrangements of the same ten or so ingredients. Yes, I know their beef is the grade-D stuff, probably made up of...
For maximum productivity at work and life, your mind needs to be relaxed, but motivated. If it's too relaxed we get into lazy-mode where we aren't motivated to move off the couch and outside of our comfort zones in order to make things happen. If we're too worked up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jNK0IKdfg At one point in society, college was a worthwhile endeavor that served a real purpose. Today you pay annual double-digit increases in tuition to take classes about Spider-Man, just to have an over 40% chance of dropping out...
Various studies have been done, and my own personal experience has clearly shown, that music has a very real effect on your work. Grocery stores determined a very long time ago that if they played slow music in their stores, people bought more. Why? Because slow music...
Every type of work in the business or financial side of your life falls into one of the following three categories: 1. "Pay the bills" work. 2. "Get rich" work. 3. Overhead work. Pay the bills (PTB) work is work that accomplishes just that. It pays the bills. That's...
Sometimes business people are guilty of overlooking huge opportunities for free profit because they're too focused on saving pennies. Here's a fantastic example of this... You're probably familiar with the Entertainment Book. It's full of coupons for local businesses....
If you didn't already know, billionaire Richard Branson is designing an airline that will take people into space. Really. It's called Virgin Galactic. Recently Ashton Kutcher became the 500th person to reserve a ticket for the first flight. For the low low price of...
The problem with our modern era is that most of us are spending all day sitting down. If you didn't already know, sitting down for most of the day is very, very bad for you and is the cause of all kinds of health problems down the road. The longer you sit, the shorter...