Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 25, 2010

The sticky floors reflect key behaviors, assumptions and beliefs that can self-limit women’s potential and abillity to achieve their career goals. No matter how confident or competent we are, being a good communicator gives us a leg up for successfully dealing with a variety of challenges and situations encountered every day.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

How do you measure your progress other than just finishing the pursuit of the 50,000 word goal. If simply finishing is your goal, then yeah, have a beer. Once you fess up to that unspoken goal, everything changes. Because your publishing dream (again, very much like being a parent) is a serious and worthy goal.

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APRIL 26, 2010

It now has over 150 free personal excellence articles and free ebooks, chocked full of content and value. After 4 months of blogging, I started to give 1-1 coaching for readers who want personalized attention on their goals. Form clear goals and hold yourself accountable to them.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2010

The word blunt was referring to the form rather than the content. As I dug into this feedback, I found out that people didn’t actually have a problem with me being honest; they had a problem with the way I was delivering my ideas. This was the problem. Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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JUNE 30, 2010

Just click on that link and you’ll find out more about what I kept and what I threw out form my GTD experiment. The Upcoming Ebook On ADD But wait. So, I started to write an ebook which will deal exclusively with this ADD framework. Confident enough to give you a small teaser here, that is. There’s more.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Make a mental list of all the awesome things that will happen if you achieve your goal In my case, that would be earning some money, and spreading the knowledge among people who will truly benefit from it. This step will help you clarify exactly why you want to achieve your goal in the first place. With vivid colored and loud movies?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Your circle of friends or business partnerships are usually formed by direct interactions. People Are Asking You To Let Them Help You This has happened to me only recently, but I guess in some form it was always there. The smallest building block of this circle is your business card (if we’re talking about business relationships).

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

I firmly believe in charging for quality content; for me, ebooks and followup series work great. In today’s time-hungry market, offering ways to accomplish things faster (ie, ebooks of less than 60 pages compared to ebooks of 200+ ebooks – faster reading) is also of value as well. Real is the future.

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JUNE 3, 2010

And they were literally running for that wall, with a lot of confidence and full speed. Well, that’s an interesting question and I hear it a lot (sometimes in a different form, but it’s very common). Call it experience, or intuition, or luck, fact is I started to notice the “walls” the people were heading against.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The benefits included a renewed confidence in my writing, massive amounts of ideas for articles, and a honing of my skills. Staying consistent in order to achieve a goal is greatness. You really nailed it in the close “Staying consistent in order to achieve a goal is greatness. In some things, consistency can be deadly.

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MARCH 2, 2010

The biggest challenge in identifying a mind virus is that we can always mistake it as a form of original thinking. A mind virus illness manifests itself in the form of a constant, toxic activity. Right now, the rebounds are taking a different form: if I’m not able to finish some tasks, I feel sad. We have to cure it.

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JULY 10, 2010

You’re no longer attracted by the same things or persons, you’re no longer driven by the same goals. Update Your Life Device Drivers Redesign your social circle, your friends, your goals. Laugh More Often It may be that you’re fighting to get back your life, to find your purpose or to attain your goal. Start over. Re-write them.

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MARCH 17, 2010

I do employ some of your strategies and the ones that work best for me are different forms meditation, and painting. It’s like deep inside, thought associations are formed that let you reach the message inside the frustration so you don’t have to experience that same frustration again. My eBook Released! Great tips!

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JUNE 22, 2010

There are many other scripts, but some of the most common are those three, and they form the foundation for the social games people play. And that ebook will really give you 30 sentences to create a millionaire mindset. We didn’t have the tools and experience to analyze those behaviors, we took them for granted. Yeah, exactly.

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MAY 10, 2010

I have been exercising in some form or another since I was five or six years old. I think a lot of my self-esteem and self-confidence is due to exercising. I couldn’t agree more. I played on countless sports teams growing up. And I ran the Chicago marathon back in 2002. Exercise has made an extremely positive impact on my life.

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MARCH 15, 2010

I think too often, we gain confidence from people we will probably never meet in our lives called role models. Role models come in many different forms. I wasn’t someone famous. I was just another person, among the billions of others out there. Some sell you their ideas for $47 per month; others charge you $100 per hour session.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

Most writers aren’t brimming over with confidence, either. Has your style become more confident? This isn’t just because specialization increases your chances of making a living from your writing – it’s also because it’s easier to improve when you focus on mastering one form. We stare at blank screens.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Denial is a form of rejecting reality. 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. Acceptance makes things manageable again.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

that have helped me be more successful in reaching my goals each time I worked with a freelancer. The fine line between great work and exceptional work often lies in the execution and feeling confident and relaxed. Failure to pay as agreed is a particularly bad form of feedback, but I’ve often seen clients use it that way.

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JULY 17, 2010

Speaking of errors, specifically about error messages, after 30 days of learning Objective C I am totally convinced that the error messages in Xcode were invented by a joyous and careless hermit, with the only goal of driving programmers crazy. Program received “BAD_EXC” message. Wow, really? You kidding me? Steven Aitchison´s last blog.

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