Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality (9781591843122): Scott Belsky. How to Start a Blog that Matters. 35 Cubicle Renegades to Watch in 2012. Ryan and Joshua each had well-paying, cushy corporate jobs and decided enough was enough.
They both began to embrace a life of minimalism (not just in having less stuff, but in living a simpler life). To document their journey they began writing at The Minimalists. They've built a big audience around their site in a niche (minimalism) that everyone thought was over-saturated, but their high-quality of writing and honest accounts from their life has kept people coming back for more. They are currently part way through a 33 city meet-up tour and while I didn't get to meet them on that tour because of my road trip, all I hear is good things about them. You can find out more about Joshua and Ryan at The Minimalists. Has one of these 35 cubicle renegades made a difference in your life? Please share this post using the buttons below if you found someone new to check out this year. 20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012. 8 Wastes of Time That Can Actually Make You Smart. We’ve all had it happen to us.
A whole day flew by and it felt like a total waste. Everything took twice as long as it was supposed to, countless hours were spent surfing the web, and a marathon of your favorite show just couldn’t be missed. It happens to the best of us. But what if you could reengineer the things you waste time on, so that the time wasters actually make you smarter, better, and more awesome? Some may say that everyone needs their downtime to do nothing, recover, and start anew. Here are eight of the biggest time wasters in our society and how you can turn them into ultra-productive, brain-growing habits. Waiting Whether you are stuck in a super long bathroom line at halftime of the big game or you get to your doctor’s appointment way too early, you can spend that time learning or absorbing new information.
Pick up an e-book that is easy to read in short sittings. Just put these on your smart phone’s e-reader app like Amazon’s Kindle and read a quick chapter while you wait. How to Improve: 3 Must Read Essays on Getting Better Everyday. Improvement doesn’t come in one fell swoop.
Improving takes time, effort, determination, and focus. Becoming good at things may be considered a lost art, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t always be working on getting better at something everyday. 10 Laws of Productivity. You might think that creatives as diverse as Internet entrepreneur Jack Dorsey, industrial design firm Studio 7.5, and bestselling Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami would have little in common.
In fact, the tenets that guide how they – and exceptionally productive creatives across the board – make ideas happen are incredibly similar. Here are 10 laws of productivity we’ve consistently observed among serial idea executors: 1. Break the seal of hesitation. A bias toward action is the most common trait we’ve found across the hundreds of creative professionals and entrepreneurs we’ve interviewed. 2.
When our ideas are still in our head, we tend to think big, blue sky concepts. 3. Trial and error is an essential part of any creative’s life. To avoid ‘blue sky paralysis,’ pare your idea down to a small, immediately executable concept. 4. When working on in-depth projects, we generate lots of new ideas along the way. The Key to Creating Remarkable Things. No one likes the feeling that other people are waiting – impatiently – for you to get back to them.At the beginning of the day, faced with an overflowing inbox, a list of messages on your voicemail, and the to-do list from your last meeting, it’s tempting to want to “clear the decks” before you start on your own most important work.
When you’re up-to-date, you tell yourself, your mind will be clear and it will be easier to focus on the task at hand. What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space. Interruption-free space is sacred.
Yet, in the digital era we live in, we are losing hold of the few sacred spaces that remain untouched by email, the internet, people, and other forms of distraction. Our cars now have mobile phone integration and a thousand satellite radio stations. When walking from one place to another, we have our devices streaming data from dozens of sources. What is Lifestyle Design? 47 Decent Lifestyle Design Resources. 79 Email Share Email Lifestyle design (LD) has a lengthy past but a short history . The art of (sometimes radical) lifestyle configuration, however, has been practiced for quite sometime by liberated people from all walks of life. The growth of the Internet has enabled those loaded with cash to disconnect from the 9-5 without disconnecting from their Porches, Louis Vuitton gear, mobile cash cow businesses, and brokerage accounts.
The Internet’s rise has also allowed persons from less auspicious backgrounds (like myself) to live creatively without making seemingly prohibitive income sacrifices.