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JUNE 7, 2010

And I also did something to soften a potential crash: a dry run using a low effort project, just to get a glimpse of what should I expect. I didn’t wrote as much as I usually do and I didn’t promote it (or engage in cross-promotions) as often as I usually do. Now, this whole adventure backfired at me in a number of ways.

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APRIL 26, 2010

After 4 months of blogging, I started to give 1-1 coaching for readers who want personalized attention on their goals. When I first started The Personal Excellence Blog, I did a sizable amount of research on how to market and promote my site. Form clear goals and hold yourself accountable to them.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is one of my oldest projects and it’s the kind of stuff that grows organically, without too much noise, but with the unmissable feeling of a strong, solid foundation. Which is exactly in 48 hours. Now I have a confession to make. I suck at sales pages. Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

If you apply the 80/20 rule to your life, be sure to first make clear what are you giving up, and don’t mix leisure with work, or even different projects at work. A real life example would be (activities in no particular order): Work: Thesis, Project A, Project B, Teaching A, Teaching B, Student Questions.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

If you apply the 80/20 rule to your life, be sure to first make clear what are you giving up, and don’t mix leisure with work, or even different projects at work. A real life example would be (activities in no particular order): Work: Thesis, Project A, Project B, Teaching A, Teaching B, Student Questions.

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MARCH 8, 2010

We spent around 4 hours talking and sharing ideas, projects or life experiences. As an online entrepreneur , I did budgeting and financial projections almost on auto-pilot, for more than 10 years. But the world is changing and so does the world of personal finances. Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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JUNE 30, 2010

Being A Productivity Junkie I had my share of GTD from its early days, back in 2005-2006. I started to GTD in 2006 and I was an evangelist until 2008. Decision is the state in which you project your next reality. You may turn those ideas into projects later if you really want to. That too is perfectly ok.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

It’s your connection to reality and as such, it cannot be infected with other people (or projections) presence. What We See Is What We Project If you enter somebody else’s dream, you will notice a lot of persons there. Those persons are not individuals, they are merely projections of that person subconscious. They will mix in.

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JULY 6, 2010

Nobody came to tell me what I have to do, they just informed me about the projects that were developed in the company and that was pretty much all. The projects were really boring, like software for assurance companies, with a lot of niche specific features, or software for managing parks or supermarkets. I was all alone in there.

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APRIL 5, 2010

But behind laughing, this joke tells a lot about our own goal setting approach. Goal Setting and Your Private Magic Fairy How many times you did your goal setting the same way the lost Bedouin did? Goal setting is a tricky thing. Every time you establish some goal, put yourself in the lost Bedouin shoes.

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MAY 16, 2010

She blogs about Ultimate Lifestyle Design at the Freedom Venture Project ™ Blog. Spread the word: Save This To Delicious Subscribe to posts Related Posts Travel As A Personal Development Tool The Spiral Path Start Your Own Business Project management with a mind map Working Out Your Money Muscles I Can Be Better?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

7 Life Lessons From A Self-Taught Programmer I recently finished a very dear project to me, an iPhone / iPad app based on my own life management framework, Assess – Decide – Do. Be Neat If you ever wrote a project with more than 5 source code files, you know that managing those source code files can be a nightmare.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. In this respect, a project is never “finished” in ADD. The graphical representation of a project in Assess – Decide – Do will look more like a spiral than like a Gantt diagram. Projects, tasks and events will start to fall into their places.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

I currently contribute a monthly article to Jonathan Wells’ newsletter SharingLifeSkills.com , and with Steven I initiate all sorts of blogging challenges, or we brainstorm projects together. Use social media functions with trust: retweet, like, promote. Jon from The Titan Project Jonathan Manor´s last blog.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

You can chose your own goal, your own improvement area, and then use my blog as a motivator and trigger of inspiration. The about page should be the place where you should list all your credentials, testimonials and all the other references about you on the interwebs: interviews, collective projects, media appearances and so on.

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MAY 17, 2010

Without a goal to direct it, without a plan to make it something material, it will remain in its raw form. When was the last time you took into account your own desires and goals, without getting infected by external intentions? Staring at something (a project, a task, a client) without acting on it will make it stop.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Zeenat Merchant-Syal’ Ebook: Best Of Positive Provocations Zeenat is a fresh presence in the self-improvement world and by that I mean she’s new – with only one year of blogging at Positive Provocations – but she’s also projecting a fresh perspective. Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

In the last two months I started a consulting project (quite a big one, it will end in March next year) where I have to spend a few hours every day in an office, evaluating progress of a team, provisioning, negotiating deals, creating and implementing strategies and so on. Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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AUGUST 2, 2010

IMHO I do live in a real pessimistic country and in a non-supportive environment, though it is hard to figure out how much projection of my own pessimistic thinking is involved. Reply 21 Uli August 2, 2010 at 10:47 pm Hi Dragos, you got me I am going through the process of emigration from Pessimism country.

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JUNE 27, 2010

Our goal, as a fight group, was to do research in the enemy field, gather information and create diversions. In business, although I was successful in my niche, I always had smaller projects going on, just in case. They were just boiling slowly and sometimes those projects saved me from some pretty tough cash-flow situations.

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MARCH 25, 2010

In coffee shops I tend to do a lot of creative work: writing blog posts, commenting on other blogs, sketching projects or partnerships. Having a personal system in place to track your personal goals and account to will be critical towards succeeding. (PS: PS: I love your captcha!) Celestine Chua´s last blog.

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APRIL 29, 2010

The goal is to keep your attention steady, without being distracted. I was able to finally freeze my long time postponed company products roadmap for the next 9 months, including some old, dusted projects, and to bring to alpha version a few new apps. If you got it right, you get points (and a bonus if you do it really fast).

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Every writer who has ever sent me samples hoping to get a project has sent me this sort of copy. Whereas, when you firmly promote your knowledge, you exude confidence. I’ve even been known to gently send clients away for a bit of a think when they’ve mentioned they’re not sure what they want or what their goals are.

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MARCH 10, 2010

How to Set Goals and Why Reply 6 dragos March 10, 2010 at 9:48 pm As I already wrote, once I learned how to run a business, the bits and pieces of it, that is (and once I did this by failing repeatedly at it) I was not attracted to it anymore. The universe will test you to see if you learned the lesson. Anita´s last blog.

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MARCH 7, 2010

I always encourage the people who I mentor to get involved in a project, organisation or cause bigger than themselves and today I have decided to encourage you to do the same. Which is your goal? Team Up With A Partner To Make Progress Reply 15 Mihaï March 9, 2010 at 7:20 am Dragos, Sometime we put the carriage before the horses.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

There are so many things that we automatically do because we just “know that’s what you do,&# but when we take a step back to truly examine our actions, it’s probably wise to see how well they align with our ideals and our goals, rather than how well they align with what everyone else is doing. Loved this post.

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MAY 26, 2010

I started to interact with him, promoting his articles and commenting on his blog. Common Blogging Ground I remember that one time he was very excited about a viral blogging project. He described the project in details in one long email and at the end of it he was asking me what I think.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Many religions are promoting this. Decision is the state in which you project your next reality. A script will make you dead alive. The Intricacies Of Playing By The Script Now, let’s go back to the main script “be good and good things will come to you”. Many social norms are also enforcing this behavior.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

You can send tasks, you can send events, you can send even projects or ideas and all the contained tasks / details within the projects or ideas will be automatically added. You can now have access to all your tasks, projects or ideas from anywhere. Well, starting with version 1.2 you can send any information via email.

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MAY 30, 2010

If you perform amazingly well on a project at work, your boss will be very happy, but he will forget all about that the next time a new project comes up. People who find fulfillment, generally find it as a by-product of following their life purpose, not as a goal in and of itself. The difference in these two groups? Great post!

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AUGUST 23, 2010

3 Monitor Your Writing Goals It’s easy to get caught in some other things and forget how many articles you set up to write for the current week. Series can expand into very interesting collaborative projects, like I did with this massive guest posting experiment (which, in my opinion, it was a total premiere in the blogging world).

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JULY 11, 2010

Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals? Think hard about whether blogging as you are now is helping you reach your goals. Ask yourself how it’s working out for you.

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JULY 17, 2010

When I started to work for this project (and yes, it was just a pet project in the beginning), all I did was to log daily my progress. Learned how to create a project and what the folder structure means. Did a few tests with some sample projects to see how the building process works. Program received “BAD_EXC” message.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

To any of my personal standards, this project was a big success. At the same time, the most visited blogger in Romania wrote a very negative review about this project. In fact, he wrote an entire negative blog post about my person. I felt great when writing this. Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

And some of them will become projects, a sequence of single actions. For instance, don’t spread a project task in more than one category of Assess, Decide or Do. Some of them will be rewritten as single tasks. Some of them will remain there and be brainstormed again and again until they evolve into a form you’re comfortable with.

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APRIL 4, 2010

My ultimate goal is to grow, evolve and become brilliantly better. If I am avoiding rejection then I am in conflict with my goal. It helps to step back and ask yourself what your goal is and if you’re moving away from it with the actions you take every day. I’ve learned that resisting or hiding from rejection is useless.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Projecting a new reality together is an incredibly powerful form of caring. Living your values is one of the most powerful tools available to you to help you be the person you want to be, to help you accomplish your goals and dreams, and to help you lead and influence others. But that doesn’t mean you should stop doing them.

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