Sunday, September 26, 2010
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“Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.” ~Samuel Johnson http://bit.ly/awKnhT
Ask Better Questions
If you want better answers, ask better questions. I most recently heard that by listening to a Tony Robbins CD (1), but I’ve heard it before. The thing is, with all good advice, if you don’t hear it often, it falls under the waves. So, I’m here to repeat it.
“If you want better answers, ask better questions.”
Reference:
1. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/paring/
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Tangible Goals
By writing goals onto paper, magic happens. They go from being abstract to being real. They go from being nice-to-have to being things-to-do.
At the beginning of 2010, I put down several goals, including some financial ones. They were a stretch, and not SMART goals, but close enough. As I started hitting them, I saw that I could do even bigger things, if I wanted to work on those goals for 2011. Combined with my ideas about asking better questions, I found that you can really get far if you write your goals down.
Other references:
1. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/keep-smart-goals-in-front-of-you-overnight-success/
2. http://www.chrisbrogan.com/ask-better-questions/
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Silence as a Business Edge
I worked with silence yesterday. I didn’t look at my email until after 11. I didn’t check into Twitter until much later. I didn’t play the radio in the car. I didn’t turn on my amazing Sonos S5 player at my office when I got there in the afternoon. I just stayed silent.
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BMW Will Integrate iPads | 10awesome.com
This is really cool!
BMWs will soon feature iPad docking bays on back seats, which swivel and rotate. Using ConnectedDrive, the car will act as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing iPads and other devices to connect online. Bye bye to those displays...
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Tilt-Shift Van Gogh | 10awesome.com
While Vincent Van Gogh was an Impressionist painter, I've always found his artwork to be pretty surreal, with his daub-paint effect warping landscapes. Artist Serena Malyon bent their reality even more, adding tilt-shift photography effects to 16 of his popular works. Here you can see 11 beautiful examples:
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Taking On A Business Partner? Avoid These 4 Common Mistakes
At first glance, taking on a partner seems like a great idea. You’ll be combining forces with a colleague who probably has complementary strengths and can help with the tough decisions. Sure, you've heard horror stories of badly-matched business partners before, but you two are perfect for each other.
Unfortunately, the fact is that over half of all business partnerships fail, according to small business expert Andrew Sherman, a partner with Jones Day (in Washington, D.C.). But many of those failures could have been avoided with smart planning upfront — something small-business partners often fail to do.
To increase the odds that your partnership works out, your best move is to familiarize yourself with the typical reasons for failure and what to do to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/taking-on-a-business-partner-dont-make-these-4-common-mistakes-2010-5#ixzz10RQyRvVE
Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum.
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/managing/article/4-fatal-mistakes-entrepreneurs-make-when-taking-on-a-partner-and-what-you-should-do-instead-anne
http://www.openforum.com/
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
INFO: More great quotes from Albert Einstein | Reviews, Tests & Technical Information
Here's just a few to begin with. What an amzing man!
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
INFO: More great quotes from Albert Einstein | Reviews, Tests & Technical Information
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
INFO: More great quotes from Albert Einstein | Reviews, Tests & Technical Information
Sunday, October 18, 2009
5 Twitter Tips You May Not Know
As Twitter turns the corner on the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and heads full speed ahead into the “Trough of Disillusionment,” I thought I’d share 5 tips that have continued to make Twitter a meaningful, useful tool. Some of these you may know, some may be new. This is aside from new features coming like Twitter Lists and the ability to report spammers directly from the web version. If you know of others I’d love to hear them.
5 Twitter Tips You May Not Know
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5 Twitter Tips You May Not Know
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50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind | Brazen Careerist
These questions have no right or wrong answers.
Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer. Here's the first 10 questions:
1. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don't like and like so many things we don't do?
4. When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
5. What is the one thing you'd most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind | Brazen Careerist
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Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer. Here's the first 10 questions:
1. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don't like and like so many things we don't do?
4. When it's all said and done, will you have said more than you've done?
5. What is the one thing you'd most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind | Brazen Careerist
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10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers - Daily SEO blog
Managing your followers and friends on Twitter is not easy. But its a fact that your success ratio and influence power is directly proportional to how active your followers are. I’ve realized that rather than who follows you or how many people follow you, its important to know whom you are following and how active they are.
Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.
- Do they ReTweet your tweets.
- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.
- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.
With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.
10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers - Daily SEO blog
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Some of the factors that will determine your influence power on Twitter are
- How active your followers are.
- Do they ReTweet your tweets.
- Whether they are regularly updated and have a good following.
- Are those whom you follow, following you back etc.
With the default options on Twitter, its not really easy to manage your followers, but here are some interesting web based applications that I found to be of great help. Hope you find them useful too.
10 Twitter tools to effectively manage your followers - Daily SEO blog
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Tweeting to #BeatCancer: 200,000 Tweets So Far
Twitter has been virtually taken over this weekend by a great cause: #BeatCancer gets brands to donate 1 cent for every tweet containing that hashtag. It’s been a huge success so far, with 200,000+ tweets being posted since the launch yesterday.
The campaign aims to break a Guinness World Record for the most social mentions, although it’s unclear where that record currently stands.
Tweeting to #BeatCancer: 200,000 Tweets So Far
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The campaign aims to break a Guinness World Record for the most social mentions, although it’s unclear where that record currently stands.
Tweeting to #BeatCancer: 200,000 Tweets So Far
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