Focused Fitness Planner

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In our modern fast paced world, many of us find it hard to stay in shape. The constant battle of a high stress job, commuting, a myriad of oversized fast food choices, and a desk job that makes us sit in front of a screen all day soon add on the pounds and make us [...]

Reach Your Goals FAST

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I just finished up a powerful and insightful personal development book, entitled The Way We Are Working…Isn’t Working, by Tony Schwartz. Michael Hyatt had recommended the book, and I found it to be chock full of great ideas to improve your life. The thing that sets Tony’s book apart from so many others is the [...]

Note Taking System

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I am a kinesthetic learner by nature and I find that if I take notes during a meeting, the hands-on activity of note taking helps me retain more of what I have learned. To make note taking even more effective, I’ve done some research into note taking systems and developed a template that helps me [...]

Deluxe Five Minute Flowchart

Back in May of 2006 we published a little desktop utility called The Five Minute Flowchart. This business card based printable sheet went on to become one of our most popular utilities and thousands of people have downloaded it. I have been amazed at the uses people have found for it. From a handy planning [...]

Help… I’m In Powerpoint Hell!

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As a speaker I’ve always had a fascination with Powerpoint, flipcharts, overheads and other visual media. As a kinesthetic-visual learner I always do better with a subject if I can SEE what is going on. Show me a picture, and I will learn better and remember more of what you said. While I like visual [...]

Draw 50: The Productivity Game

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It’s Saturday morning, the house is a mess and you stare blindly through sleepy eyes at your spouse. You know there are a million things to do and all you want to do is go back to bed. But you realize that the Nelsons are coming over at noon, and Mrs. Nelson has a white [...]