Starting a blog posting – or any communication — with the word “I,” is a great way to distract your audience from your message, and to get them to focus on you… if you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky, starting your message with the word “I“ (or better yet, the words “I think” or “I find“) will [...]
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The only thing better than recycling a plastic bag is reusing it, thereby conserving the energy and materials used to create this temporary convenience. Some people might say there is something better than reusing a plastic bag: Adding energy to the equation — human energy — and transforming the plastic bag into something else. “Green Crafting” website: http://www.myrecycledbags.com/ A [...]
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“..that it can really work out, because, um, we can be rich in cotton, and mining metals, and silkworms, and we can make things, we can make things, cars… The Machine can make it for us.”
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Diane Darling, the founder of Effective Networking, has many great tips for people looking to build new business relationships in ways that are more enjoyable and productive. A few years ago, I went to one of her seminars and she mentioned one idea that has stuck well with me: When scheduling time to attend a designated ”networking [...]
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Here’s an amazing interactive infopron graph from the New York Times, based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey: (hat tip to DRZ) Some interesting things we learn from this data: At 8:30 a.m., more than 20 percent of the adults living with one child are asleep, compared with 15 percent [...]
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