Fake Deadlines Work Wonders

January 22, 2011

If you are an ambitious, overzealous, over-scheduled, procrastinating, perfectionist like me, how do you get it all done? Do you set fake deadlines for yourself all the time too? 3 good reasons to set a fake deadline: 1.Creates a sense of urgency! When you have a lot going on, a tough deadline can launch the [...]

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Can we creatures of habit really change?

January 7, 2011

You rang in the New Year with high hopes and big dreams for 2011. Now the party is over and you’ve gone back to work. But what’s really different? Maybe nothing, nothing at all. The realization that it is up to you to make a change sets in and we all know change is hard. [...]

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Louis-Bastien on blogging, friending and the global internet access gap

December 31, 2010

LB: What are you doing on your computer Mommy? Me: See, I’m writing something. LB: To who? Me: To everyone in the whole wide world. LB: Even if they are not your friends? Me: Yep. LB: That’s the strangest thing I’ve ever heard! LB: How can you? Me: I’ll show you. LB: But it’s not [...]

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Begging the Question

December 29, 2010

Strolling down the shopping streets of Quimper, France this afternoon we came upon a beggar. A young man in his twenties was bent down on one knee. He wore black combat boots and was flanked by two large, not so scrawny, German Sheppard-type dogs. He silently held out his open hand, which contained a few [...]

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