Freedom and convenience directly oppose each other. Let’s take two extremes of this in a cup of coffee. If you wanted ultimate, total freedom, you’d grow your own coffee tree, harvest the cherries, dry them, roast them, grind them, brew them with water you sourced from your own aquifer, and have a cup of coffee
In the world of nutrition, what does a diet of constant snacking get you? How healthy is the end result of little snacks all the time, especially when the snacks are of dubious quality? One of the most popular formats for writing content nowadays is the “snack-sized” content. 5 tips for this, 8 ideas for
After a spate of travel on the road, there’s a few things I do to help reset, reboot, and purge the ills of travel from my system. As with any and all things health related, what works for one person may not for someone else and may cause serious harm to yet another, so use
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We make reality in our world in three ways: thought, word, and action. It’s good to think about gratitude, to think about all we have that we might otherwise not. The grateful mind helps shape our view of the world and deepens our appreciation of everything that we have. It’s good to speak of gratitude,
What makes the difference between sporadic success and sustainable, continuous success? Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese term for improvement. It specifically refers to continuous, incremental improvement through the reduction of waste and small improvements to efficiency. Kaizen is, in some ways, the opposite of innovation: improvement and focus on what you have rather than trying
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I’ve been coding in some PHP (badly, as usual) recently to interface with the controversial Twitter scoring service, Klout. For those who haven’t followed along, Klout assigns a score to Twitter users based on their perceived influence by a huge number of scoring factors. They recently updated their algorithm to run daily and score a
Are you familiar with the Golden Rolodex? It’s a sales expression as well as a human resources expression. The Golden Rolodex is your personal database, your personal set of connections and relationships that you’ve built over your career. When companies are looking to hire top talent in sales and executive functions, very often the Golden
