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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