Just for fun - living in 2007

From Bill Bradley

--You know you're living in 2007 when...

1. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

4. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.

5. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

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Ten Questions With Donald Trump

Donald J. Trump is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance and started his business career in an office he shared with his father. In August of 2006, Mr. Trump was voted by BusinessWeek magazine as “the world’s most competitive
businessperson.”

Guy Kawasaki asked ten questions of The Donald ...

Exploiting the Gender Gap

By WARREN FARRELL

Carlsbad, Calif. — Nothing disturbs working women more than the statistics often mentioned on Labor Day showing that they are paid only 76 cents to men's dollar for the same work. If that were the whole story, it should disturb all of us; like many men, I have two daughters and a wife in the work force.
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Coaching Millions

Some coaches are making millions.

You can make more too.

"Coaching Millions" shows you step by step how to leverage your business growth.

A simple six step process to:

-- Help more people

-- Make a lot more revenue

-- Live your ultimate lifestyle

Brian Tracy called "Coaching Millions"

".. the best single book ever written on how to be successful in coaching"

I'm also recommending that anyone not yet using coaching as the ultimate high ticket information product get a copy.

Even if you "know it".. this book contains simple explanations you can use in training others and leveraging any business.

I've joined with dozens of others to help author Milana Leshinsky tell the world about this wonderful book. We have each donated a gift.

Do this today.. Go to:http://coachingbestseller.com/

Word of Mouth Technology

I'm writing because I can't tell you to take part in Mark Joyner's "Word of Mouth Transformation!" experience.

Why not?

Because I haven't seen it yet. No one has.

What I can tell you is that I, myself, will be registeringfor it the moment the clock strikes 8PM on the east coast:

http://www.simpleology.com/p/womt/bronwynr/

Why will I be doing this myself?

1. I just got off a live webcast Mark did where 1,800 peoplefrom around the world (including some from Turkey, Iran, China,and India!) listened to him teach some of the basics of his newWord of Mouth technology.
If it's a 10th as good as I think it will be it will be a bargain.

2. Registration is only going to be open for a short time. Ifyou miss out you miss out.

3. I recommend you register, just to hold your seat, and then decide later.

Get this - they have put up a full 1 year refund policy.

That means you could do the whole training and get a refund at the end if you wanted it.

Or, you could register, then cancel a day later if you decide it's not for you.
So, I don't know if this will be right for you (it sure will forme), but what I *do* know is this:

If you don't register, you probably won't ever get the chance to do so again - ever.

So, do yourself a favor and register as soon as the doors open. Reserve your virtual "seat" on this roller coaster ride, and then decide later.

Low-fat diets - do they work?

From Cheryl Koch

The 8-year study [into low-fat diets} showed some unexpected results. For more than a decade doctors, dietitians, and others have been promoting the benefits of a low-fat diet to control disease and assist with weight control. The study of almost 50,000 postmenopausal women found that restricting dietary fats may not have the benefits we once thought.

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Why was I only mildly surprised?!!!

Great Time Management Advice!

From: Jim Rohn

I often talk in my seminars about the importance of time and time management -- how rich people and poor people both have the same amount of time every day - 24 hours (which by the way, I find fascinating).

This week, as we continue to celebrate the Anniversary of the Weekend Event, I want to share with you four great time management ideas we've excerpted from the Event Speaker Round Table Session - Enjoy!

Brian Tracy:

I always give the principle of: Begin the day by "Eating That Frog". It basically says that if the first thing you do in the morning is eat a live frog, then you will have the satisfaction of knowing it is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.

And your "live frog" is your most important task. Now there's two corollaries to that. The first one is if you have two frogs to eat, eat the ugliest one first and the second corollary to that is if you have to eat a frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it too long.

So the key to high performance is to plan every day the night before, in advance, and set priorities for it. And then say, "if I can only complete one task on this list before I was to be called out of town for a month, which one task would it be?" And whatever that is, it becomes your frog and the next morning discipline yourself to start in on that task, the most important thing on your list, and do only that until it is complete.

If you can develop that habit, you can double and triple your productivity, you'll take full control of your life, you will eventually become wealthy, and the personal feeling of pride, accomplishment, discipline and achievement you get will be absolutely extraordinary. It is one of the most important of all lessons to learn, and one of the hardest things to implement if anybody has tried to do it.

Denis Waitley:

Stop watching in prime time and start living in prime time. Prime time is 7-11 pm EST, when all of America is watching other people making money and having fun in their professions. So if you want to watch other people making money, having fun in their professions, which gets their ratings up so they make more money, go ahead and do things that are tension relieving, instead of goal achieving. But if you truly want to live YOUR life in prime time, then write in prime time, have intimacy in prime time, talk with your children in prime time, live and do in prime time instead of unhooking and engaging in tension relieving activities.

Every book I've written, all seventeen, have been written 7-11 pm weekly and on Saturdays. And why? Because I am earning money the rest of the time, and I don't have time to write a book except in prime time.

So stop watching and use the television set as an appliance. It has doors on it. Close the doors and use like an iron, when you need to iron your clothes, bring out the TV set.

Jim Rohn:

Regarding the television, I knew a guy who wasn't doing too well and he wanted some advice from me. I knew he had a television set and knew he watched a lot of television, so I asked, "How much did that television cost you?"He said, "about $400."I said, "No, you're mistaken."He said, "No, this television set cost me $400."I said, "Well that's to buy it. To watch it, I am sure it is costing you about $40,000 a year to watch."

He finally got the message and he called his brother-in-law, who had a pick-up, and he and his brother-in-law hauled his television out of the house. His brother-in-law did say, "Well, you can just shut it off."

And he said, "No, for now I don't trust myself, Jim Rohn is right. I'm not going to let this television set cost me $40,000 a year anymore."

Vic Johnson:

My biggest tip would be in an area that I struggle a lot. About 15 years ago I heard someone say to never handle the items in your inbox more than one time. So I adopted that for email. Now I get over 300 emails everyday even though I have all kinds of filters, some of them going to other people, etc. My biggest challenge is to touch that email only one time. Either I forward the email, I return the email and delete it or drag it to a folder for action by someone else or delete it. If you continue to have to go back and revisit that email over and over trying to make a decision that's time -- that's wasted time -- plus it's on your mind until you get rid of it. So if you are in a profession and you handle a lot of emails and you're still getting a lot of items in your inbox, only touch them one time.

Reproduced with permission from the Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine.Jim Rohn International2835 Exchange Blvd., Suite 200Southlake, TX 76092800-929-0434International and/or Dallas/Ft Worth - 817-442-5407Fax 817-442-1390 or visit the website at www.jimrohn.com

How to Make More Time For Your Life

Do you wish you could work less and play more? Are you so stuck in the rut you can't see a way out? Have you ever said I wish I had more time for me?
Well there is hope. First of all you have to be aware of your situation, have a strong desire to change and then take action.

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Clean living has its down side

When your immune system has it too cushy it may not be prepared to protect you in tough times. Clean living may actually make us sick. New studies comparing sanitized rats to sewer rats reported in the Scandinavian Journal of Immunology found that wild rats had as much as four times higher levels of immunoglobulins than rats living in sanitized cages, yet weren't sick. Their immune system were tuned to fight crucial germs because they had a history of fighting such germs. The rats raised in sanitized systems overreact to even the smallest change in conditions; their systems go crazy.
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Looking to Make a Sale or Get Promoted? Emotions Will Help Determine the Outcome

High emotion contributes to great opera. It does not, however, serve us well when making judgments about others. This is the argument advanced in "Feeling and Believing: The Influence of Emotion on Trust," a new paper by Maurice E. Schweitzer, Wharton professor of operations and information management, and Jennifer Dunn, a PhD student in the department.
The two researchers conducted five experiments to determine the influence of emotional states -- happiness, gratitude, anger, and guilt -- on trust. Each experiment confirmed that incidental emotions (emotions from one situation that influence judgment in a following, unrelated situation) affect how willing we are to trust others. For example, our anger over a speeding ticket is likely to affect how we judge someone later in the day. The researchers conclude that despite feeling we are rational beings who make clear, lucid judgments, in reality we all walk around in a sea of emotions that are likely to influence how we act in both business and social contexts.
The article, recently published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, stems from Schweitzer's ongoing interest in negotiation, where trust plays a critical role.

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Networking Tip: The Elevator Pitch

Successful individuals are first, last, and always salespeople. They are constantly selling themselves and their ideas to investors, management, co-workers, vendors, and even their families.
An opportunity to sell yourself and/or your ideas can come up on the subway, in the checkout line at the grocery store, after your yoga class - just about anywhere. To be ready to make a useful connection at any time, it's a good idea to be prepared with a short (one minute is ideal) self-promotional speech.

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Trying to "Keep up"?

And I thought it was only me ...!

From the Creating Passionate Users Blog

Do you have a stack of books, journals, manuals, articles, API docs, and blog printouts that you think you'll get to? That you think you need to read? Now, based on past experience, what are the odds you'll get to all of it? Half of it? Any of it? (except for maybe the Wired magazine)

So you let the stack of "things to read" pile up, then eventually when the pile gets to high you end up tossing half of it--or worse, moving it to a deeper "stuff to read someday stack. We have selective amnesia about what we'll ever get to, but mainly because most of us keep feeling like we have to keep up! Keep up with what?

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Time Management

The Power Of Time Management Training

The goal of time management is to use your time more wisely. As you become more proficient with time management, you will be able to accomplish daily tasks with ease and you will feel better about yourself. The problem usually arises, not because you have too much to do, but rather, because of the way you manage your time. In today’s world, there are a lot of distractions out there that allow you to divert your attention to things that are more fun to do.

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A Whack onthe side of the head

A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD : How You Can Be More Creative (Paperback) by von Oech

"This book is a life changer. I'm basically a creative visionary. But I get stuck. Read this book and do the exercises if you want to get unstuck!!"

"This is a book to enjoy, to use, to recommend to everyone... In a way its Heraclitus for the 21st century mixed with some de Bono.. Do not get me wrong, there is a unique creation of Dr. Von Oech in here, a profound questioning of our creative muscles and a very practical way to use the.. simple yet not simplistic..humorous yet profound"

More reviews at Amazon where it is selling from $6.86


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Ten Ways

From the Fast Company blog

...Getty Images has an interesting project in which they worked with five collaborators to consider 10 Ways -- how 10 different approaches to photography can change how you look at images.

As I explored the different elements, which include light, information, memory, space, response, emotion, color, truth, time, and transformation, I was struck by how each of them can also have impact on how we do what we do, with whom, and why.

When you have some time, consider clicking through the 10 Ways yourself. And think about how each plays a role in your work -- and in your business. Which one do you think is most important?

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World eBook fair

Please visit us here from July 4th-August 4, 2006 to download your selections from 1/3 million free eBooks.

Welcome to the future home of the World eBook Fair, soon to be the largest showcase for eBooks, eBook publishers, editors, and others working in the new world of eBooks.

July 4th to August 4, 2006 marks a month long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today's eBooks, when the United States Declaration of Independence was the first file placed online for downloading in what was destined to be an electronic library of the Internet.

Today's eBook library has a total of over 100 languages represented.The World eBook Fair welcomes you to absolutely free access to a variety of eBook unparalleled by any other source. 1/3 million eBooks await you, all free of charge for the month from July 4 - August 4, 2006, and then 1/2 million eBooks in 2007, 3/4 million in 2008, and ONE million in 2009.

Ten times as many eBooks are available from private eBook sources, without the media circus that comes with 100 billion dollar media mavens such as Google. The World eBook Fair has created a library of wide ranging sample of these eBooks, totaling 1/3 million.

Here are eBooks from nearly every classic author on the varieties of subjects previously only available through the largest library collections in the world. Now these books are yours for the taking, free of charge, to keep for the rest of your lives.

This event is brought to you by the oldest and largest free eBook source on the Internet, Project Gutenberg, with the assistance of the World eBook Library, the providers of the largest collection, and a number of other eBook efforts around the world.

The World eBook Library normally charges $8.95 per year for online access, and allows unlimited permanent downloading. During The World eBook Fair all these books are available free of charge through a gateway at http://www.gutenberg.org

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Ancestry.com Digitizes Entire U.S. Federal Census Collection From 1790-1930

Near Decade-Long Process Makes Available More Than 540 Million Individual Stories at the Click of a Mouse

Ancestry.com, the world's largest online family history source, today announced it has completed digitizing and indexing the entire U.S. Federal Census from 1790 to 1930.

Ancestry.com is the only source where all publicly released census information can be found online Read on …

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Creating Your Goals: stop making excuses

There is little question that goal location works, at least among successful or soon-to-be-successful people.

And once you learn how to power up your goals with the necessary strategies, you can create a level of achievement and control over your life that at this point may be beyond your imagination.

In fact, you can become so good at generating goals that it will be necessary for you to be careful what you plan or ask for because you will most confidently experience it.

Goal setting is as important to the successful operation of your life as eating or sleeping. The only difference is that your life won’t end if you don’t set goals. However, without goals directing your life, you will miss out on much of your possible for experiencing the positive emotions of excitement, aliveness, enthusiasm, joy, and even happiness.

Without goals, you can end up living from problem to problem instead of from opportunity to opportunity. Setting goals will steer you toward opportunities while enabling you to overcome the obstacles and split through the barriers necessary for their achievement. Running your life without goals is about as effective as attempting to drive your car from the passenger’s seat.

To be effective in the goal-setting process, you must go far beyond the usual ideas of how to set goals.

Forget Excuses And Start Making Choices!

“I set goals but they just don’t seem to happen.”

“I’m really not sure what I’m after.”

“I don’t have time to set goals. I’m too busy.”“I don’t set goals so I won’t be disappointed.”

The winning choice is clear: develop your goals, drop your expectations...

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think your office is a zoo? Companies go pet friendly

Millions of Americans believe pets on the job lower absenteeism and encourage workers to get along, according to the survey by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.Pets at Tellme, an Internet telecommunications company, help workers become friends, said Grant Shirk, whose dog Penny is learning Chinese commands from a colleague. Read on ...

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Ergonomics

CUErgo presents information from research studies and class work by students and faculty in the Cornell Human Factors and Ergonomics Research Group (CHFERG), directed by Professor Alan Hedge, in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.

CHFERG focuses on ways to enhance usability by improving the ergonomic design of hardware, software, and workplaces, to enhance people's comfort, performance and health in an approach we call Ergotecture. We recognize that this is also as an important component of the Department's Ecotecture sustainable design approach.

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