September 2008
5 posts
Save the Words for the Happy Times, Part III:... →
From a four part series over at Awareness * Connection based on the idea that we tend to talk a lot when it helps least. Reversing this trend can make for big improvements in our home life.
5 Key Skills to Handle Childhood Arguing →
I have created a couple of pages over at Squidoo. It is a nice format for breaking down skills into nice bite sized pieces. Enjoy.
There’s a difference of opinion in the comments over there you might want to check out.
Yakisoba Recipe
Had a friend come over the other night that was craving this recipe from the last time I made it for her. She brought over her hubby and we had some nice big servings of yakisoba. Though I’ve eaten it for years, I had never thought of it this way before, but read the other day that it is essentially a Japanese version of chow mein.
Serves 4
Two packages of fresh yakisoba noodles from...
“It takes about ten years to get used to how old we are.”
– Unknown
Gain Credibility with Your Child
My new Squidoo page explains how you can help you kid to cooperate using the art of sharing control in strategic ways.
August 2008
4 posts
Annihilate Mr. Procrastination with Your Zen Tank
Another installment from the satire blog Done Getting Things. Makes fun of productivity, life-hack and zen inspired GTD type sites. Funny stuff.
Annihilate Mr. Procrastination with Your Zen Tank
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““When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to...”
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What's Remarkable About Web 2.0
What strikes me about web 2.0 is that traditional economic models wouldn’t have predicted it. Why would people, for instance, work really hard writing blogs with no monetary compensation?
Turns out that people have a much stronger drive toward self-expression and connection that the “rational self-interest” models would have predicted. And I think that is a great thing to...
David Allen Dropped by
I have been writing articles for the GTD blog GTDtimes. I haven’t yet been officially trained in one of GTD’s certification programs. But checking my comments recently on a feature article I wrote…not only did I discover another comment, but one by David Allen, the Big Kahuna of GTD himself. Check out the kind comment he left here.
July 2008
24 posts
Ancient Cheating and a Modern Twist
I was pleased to discover this morning that my post on how to use writing to “cheat” and increase your cognitive capacity had already been posted at GTDtimes. The brightest people there are are wise enough not to ignore this ability to further expand their brain power. Neither should you. And it is virtually free.
Demotivation Time Again
It’s Demovitation day again. Time to share another classic from Despair, Inc :-(
And just a quick word of advice, Despair, Inc. will sue you if you use that frowny emoticon :-( It belongs to them. They have trademarked it. I will not be sued for using it here, because I am only using it to warn you about infringing on their intellectual property rights. I think.
And their way of...
Come read me next week over at the GTD Times
I have just been taken on as an official contributor over at GTD Times. I just submitted my first article for them on how parent coaching and therapy can be much more effective when augmented with Getting Things Done. I’ll let you know when it is up. I am excited about the partnership.
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly...”
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Mark Twain
Coffee Makes You More Likely to be Persuaded
Here is a great short article on the science of why coffee makes people more apt to change their beliefs when presented views differing from their own. The author points out that those who gulp down lattes at business meetings might want to consider how their beverage influences what plays out in the meeting.
As Minimalist as it Gets: GTD with 3 x 5 Cards →
A link to a great, concise article on how to do GTD with no synching, computer freezes or other high tech headaches from the good folks over at GTD Times. Also a brief explanation of the hipster PDA and related hacks.
Demotivation Posters
Despair.com has a whole series of these “Demotivational” posters. If you’ve ever had the feeling that your boss hung one of the “legit” versions of this sort of motivational poster in your office to squeeze extra work out of you, you’ll likely enjoy these. If you find this one funny, check out their site. They have a whole series. Check out their...
Wall E = Idiocracy
When I saw Wall E, one of the many things that passed through my mind, is that there was some heavy borrowing from Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. From the ever present corporate big brother, to the television screens and clothing being riddled with advertising, to the average person being an absolute dolt, not only the imagery, but even the story line seems too similar to be an accident. Some of...
Explore my sister blog Awareness * Connection for... →
Awareness * Connection has more formal content for any one interested in making parenting more rewarding, wanting GTD or other tips on productivity, or who wants to learn more about psychology. See you there. You can also take a look at mywebsite Enjoy Parenting Again.
I've Got a Mean Left Rook (Chess Boxing)
From Time Magazine. Chess-Boxing. No kidding. The challenge is supposed to be lowering your adrenaline level after the hitting and being hit in the face part, a little limbic brain action there, to shifting the frontal lobes into gear play chess. Now that is likely challenging some novel neurological combos. The only way to up the ante on this one might be something like knife fight - chess...
GTD Phone Wallpaper
I found this much more colorful, fun version of David Allen’s GTD flowchart at Anabubula. I sometimes think I have some sort of mild learning disability that makes it hard for me to parse some words to figure out how to pronounce them. Anabubula was one of them. It took me several passes to get it. I thought this graphic would be more pleasant to look at this than at the dry black and...
Book Recommendation: Pasta Sauces
Pasta Sauces
Wonderful book. If you like the pasta, all the best sauces are in here. I like Bellissino’s way of explaining why he makes the recommendations he does from prep style to selection of ingredients. These range from down and dirty 3 min sauces to ones that I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon making. He has another book on sauces in general, but the reviews...
Who's In Charge Around Here? You or the Clutter?
A frequent theme on Awareness * Connection is productivity and organization in service of making life simpler and reducing the spillover from work, bills, home and car maintenance, etc into the truly important areas of our life, our relationships and our passions. The Getting Things Done approach is fantastic for managing all those areas that like to take over, so that they can be dealt with...
The Joys of Ziti
I have only recently discovered the joys of baked ziti. I think I actually first became aware of the dish when watching the Sopranos. I made my first one based on this recipe by Mario Batali with a balsamella sauce: Baked Ziti al Telefono. The name refers to the cheese being nice and stringy and apparently reminding some Italian folks of telephone wires. With this nice little allusion, combined...
“Good judgment comes from experience…and experience comes from bad...”
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Mark Twain
almost sounding like he works at the Love and Logic Institute
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Apple App Store: The Receipt to Make You Feel...
I was impressed a while back when I downloaded some free articles from David Allen’s Getting Things Done website. I was first pleased to find some quality info on GTD at an a price you have to love. To get the articles though, you have to put them into a shopping cart and go through the process as if you were buying them. And yet they were free. Why? Recently I got the iTunes Store receipt...
“I’ve been through some terrible things in my life…some of which...”
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Mark Twain
on anxiety
“Control is a basic human need. We can either share control with our kids on or...”
– Jim Fay
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