31 Dec, 2005
For me, New Year’s Eve is a time for reflection, as well as a time to look to the future. I don’t set New Year’s Resolutions in the “normal” sense, such as “Get Rich” or “Get in Shape”, because to me they’re not useful as goals. I do set large goals for the entire […]
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16 Dec, 2005
I’ve finished my second week of using daily positive affirmations, which wasn’t as eventful as the first week. Here’s a look at my observations so far:
What’s working?
I still get a positive boost when reading them in the morning, and they’re still helping me through sticky situations.
I’m still surprised by just how effective they can […]
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08 Dec, 2005
It’s been a week since I started using daily positive affirmations, and I’m seeing some interesting results so far.
There’s definitely been a positive effect. I’ve been in a few negative situations over the past week, and when my usual reaction of feeling down started, my affirmations kicked in and I booted out the offending […]
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01 Dec, 2005
Lifehack.org has an interesting article entitled “But I can’t…”
How often each day do you tell yourself, or others, you can’t do something? Is it true? How do you know you can’t? What if you’re limiting yourself without knowing it? What if you’re lying to save face or avoid embarrassment?
This is one of things I […]
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29 Nov, 2005
The 30 day, no risk trial
Back in April, Steve Pavlina wrote about the concept of testing changes in your life for 30 days.
A powerful personal growth tool is the 30-day trial. This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and […]
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24 Nov, 2005
I’ll admit, I’m not particularly keen on using telephones. Whilst searching for help on the problem, I found the rather amusing text above.
It’s pretty obvious to me that the page has been created from a standard template, and that they replace a few phrases with whichever fear they’re claiming to help you with. It doesn’t […]
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21 Nov, 2005
Evolution of the progress log
Stirred by a comment from David Seah, I thought it would be interesting to look over my progress log for the last few months, and see how it’s changed. It’s still a relatively new book, but there have already been some big modifications:
Fewer goals - I used to have 3 […]
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17 Nov, 2005
In the last thrilling instalment, I briefly covered my progress log, a book which I use to keep track of how close I am to achieving my major goals, as well as my overall level of productivity.
In this entry I’ll be describing:
How I create my 90 day goals.
The points tracking system I use
The “b-Alert” […]
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14 Nov, 2005
I’ve been keeping a progress log since the end of August, and although it’s still far from perfect, it’s been a great help on my self improvement odyssey. Recently I’ve modified it slightly to use a version of “The Printable CEO”, and although I’ve not been using it for very long, I do feel like […]
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09 Nov, 2005
If you work for yourself, the chances are that motivating yourself is an important, and sometimes difficult, activity. David Seah has a great method for overcoming this problem, in the form of “The Printable CEO”. I’ve only been using it for a week, but I’m already seeing an improvement in the amount of work […]
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03 Nov, 2005
In Monday’s entry, I explained some simple techniques to turn a drain on resources into a free* method of advertising.
In today’s entry, I’ll be going into more depth about how to use a little PHP to dynamically generate your adverts. Why would you want to do this? For starters, you can modify the image […]
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31 Oct, 2005
If you own a website, then it’s likely you’ve had images “hotlinked” or “leeched”. Not only is this annoying and rude, but it also costs bandwidth. The usual response is to replace the linked image with something suitably amusing or offensive, but in today’s post I’m going to look at the alternatives.
A recent post […]
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13 Oct, 2005
A good post over at Joe Indie about why indies should start with a small project before moving on to bigger things. He states the main benefits of this approach as:
Experience with the entire software development process.
Experience shipping software to end users.
Experience setting up shop on the Web.
Experience as a business entity with a […]
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10 Oct, 2005
I’ve installed a lot of applications on my PC over the years, but several have earned the distinct honour of being allowed to stay:
Freemind - An excellent mind-mapping tool that makes it easy to grab lots of ideas. I use this to note down all my rough ideas, and although it’s not quite as […]
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05 Oct, 2005
I promise I won’t always use such lame titles.
I aim for the majority of content on this blog to be centered around a few core topics: updates on what’s being developed at Sodaware, what has been learnt from development and anything else I think will be useful to the readers. There may also be […]
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