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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As of August, this year, my non-compete agreement is over and I am already involved in a few local projects. One of those projects is in fact an entrepreneurship-investors event, called Venture Connect. Basically, my job here is to screen interesting projects, to evaluate them and to make sure they meet a certain criteria.

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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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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. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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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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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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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. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact Being A Digital Nomad by dragos on March 25, 2010 · 30 comments in Productivity & Effectiveness , Travel & Fun Tweet Ever wondered what being a digital nomad means?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Learning a new language is a beautiful travel. 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. Without a formalized methodology in place, the project simply wouldn’t have been finished.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But spending all your time dissecting your tasks, projects, goals or attitudes in smaller and smaller chunks of data will eventually paralyze you. Ash @ The Middle Finger Project´s last blog. The need to analyze your problem and making it actionable is fundamental. I’ve been working so hard, I dessserveee a break.

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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. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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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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AUGUST 19, 2010

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. But you can also use your sidebars to promote events, products or services you own or you are part of.

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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.

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JUNE 27, 2010

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. I’m a fan of jumping to opportunities and traveling light. As simple or as complicated as you see fit. {

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JANUARY 14, 2010

Nicknamed “The Professor&# , Neil has written books, penning four incredible texts about traveling, loss, and music. Write down anything, and I mean *anything*, that would potentially be a new blog post, book idea, promotion, whatever. Like my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I start a lot of projects and then get sidetracked.

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APRIL 26, 2010

When I first started The Personal Excellence Blog, I did a sizable amount of research on how to market and promote my site. Create your business guidebook For every project I do, I have a guidebook where I write my goals, strategies, plans and learnings.It’s like a success roadmap. Anyway, thank you all for the great advice.

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MAY 17, 2010

Staring at something (a project, a task, a client) without acting on it will make it stop. Imagine how it would be to have less of procrastination in your life. Less time spent on nothing. Naturally, you’ll start doing things. You’ll start making the world spin again. It won’t move, it will be dead.

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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 22, 2010

Many religions are promoting this. Decision is the state in which you project your next reality. So, my travel to become a scriptless individual is going really well, but I may still be around for a while. Reply 15 Traveling Magi June 22, 2010 at 9:07 pm Great post! A script will make you dead alive. You see now?

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MARCH 10, 2010

Embark on an unexpected travel. I know in my work, close outs on projects we focus on the best things and reproduce them and share it with others and train that. The Experiment That’s the first stage and also the most alive and most pleasant of all, so to speak. You take a risk. Start a business. Fall in love.

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MARCH 7, 2010

We always compliment folks who travel more, and who try out new activities, because they are opening their minds up in the process. 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.

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APRIL 29, 2010

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. Another area in which I clearly saw a visible improvement was my learning ability. Being busy, so to speak. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I did a ‘follow friday’ on my writing blog (not the one you get to when you click on my name). I’ve already served 2 of your wishes. ‘Two out of three ain’t bad.’ ’ Anne Lyken-Garner´s last blog. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

If you have quality content and the marketing prowess to promote it, then by all means charge. Interview with World Traveler, Robert Fitzsimmons Reply Cathy ( @kookieskrumble ) December 9, 2009 at 6:33 am I would have to say it is a choice. Or work on passive income projects. Readers vote with their dollars. You would just blog.

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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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JANUARY 10, 2010

How To Promote Your Business On A Budget Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) January 11, 2010 at 7:06 am @Michael – I’m tossed up about that. As you say, small tests, little tasks, minor projects… this is how everyone should test the waters. Rob Fleming – Freelance Writer for Hire´s last blog.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

My non-compete agreement after the sale of my company ended at the end of august and starting October I got involved in a new project (as a consultant, this time). As a coincidence, I started to walk a LOT in the last few weeks. Fact is I’m getting out of the house, have something that other people call office, have meetings and so on.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2010

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). There is the head to head challenge, and then there are the collective projects. At least for a reputable source like yourself, right?

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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. Why Breaking Bad Habits Just Got Easier Reply 9 Joshua Noerr June 2, 2010 at 3:31 am It’s funny Dragos, because some people try to find fulfillment in their performance.

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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. Can be tricky at times. Got some rest.

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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. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Projecting a new reality together is an incredibly powerful form of caring. Make Plans Together Making plans will always make God laugh, that’s true. But that doesn’t mean you should stop doing them. On the contrary, you should keep God laughing for as much as you can, wouldn’t you? Talk Ask questions.

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