Sometimes, I think I’m way too anal about some things. According to some of the comments on my previous posts, you agree. But nothing beats how much of a Nazi I am when it comes to my iTunes library.
Sure, I know the clamor is coming; iTunes sucks, use (insert alternative software here) instead. I’m on a Mac as I write this, I own an iPhone and an Apple TV… » Continue
October 8 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: | 10 comments»
There’s something to be said for leaving a former employer with style. We’re in the middle of a time when more than a few employers are having to downsize and plenty of people who would otherwise be assured of a job are getting the axe. Just because a former employer may have directed you to the door, however, you can still walk out with your pride intact. The same… » Continue
October 7 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: career, network, resignation | 5 comments»
While the economic sky is falling, it’s still possible to make sure that your financial status is steady. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been even more focused on the steps I’m taking to improve my personal finances. I’ve found a few actions that probably won’t make you a millionaire — but they will ensure that a rocky economy doesn’t have too much of an effect on your… » Continue
October 2 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: debt, personal finance, resumer | 20 comments»
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately. What does it take to be a happy person? Obviously the answer is going to be different for each person, but what worries me is that, as far as I can tell, most people don’t even ask – and those that do don’t have a very good answer.
Ask someone what would make them happy, and their answer is likely to be… » Continue
October 1 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: goal, happiness, life | 35 comments»
It’s a simple fact of life if you put enough words on paper: the day will come when you can’t think of any sentence worth the effort to write down. You’ll have the dreaded writer’s block. Symptoms can vary, but the disease itself is simple. You won’t be able to think of anything to write — and anything that you do think of won’t meet your standards. It can… » Continue
September 30 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: writers block, writing | 12 comments»
Do you have a dream? Is there a business that you’re dying to launch, a story in your head demanding to be told, or an idea you’re frantic to see made a reality?
If you’re like most people, the answer is “yes.” Or, more likely, “yes, but…” Just about everyone has a crazy dream they’d love to pursue – but they just don’t know how.
What you need is a little expert… » Continue
September 29 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: dream, expert, expertise, friendship, goal, learning, skill | 7 comments»
Chances are, within the next few months, you’ll be asked at least once to acquire a new skill or body of knowledge. If you’re in high-tech, you can count on your entire skill-set becoming obsolete every few years, but even people in less accelerated fields have to keep learning just to stay even these days.
For example, whether you’re in marketing and PR, corporate communications, human resources, or political campaigning, you’ve… » Continue
September 26 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: learning, skill, study | 15 comments»
The internet is all about information, but sometimes it can be hard to sort out the answer you really need from the celebrity gossip and gadget rumors. You can email your question to friends and family, read Wikipedia articles until your eyelids droop, or even post your question to your blog. You still may not find the answer you’re trying to find. But there are some websites that are… » Continue
September 25 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: answer, expert, question | 7 comments»
At the end of every school year, the media is stuffed with advice for soon-to-be graduates looking forward with excitement — and not a little fear – to setting out on their careers. I’ve althinways felt that this was just a little bit too late – by the time June rolls around, you’re competing with literally millions of recent grads, all frantic to find some kind of handhold in this… » Continue
September 24 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice-for-students, career, college, education, job, planning, student, university | 12 comments»
In school, all the other kids who hadn’t started their assignments would freak out the night before it was due. Not me. Not because I’d planned it out weeks in advance and gotten things done the smart way. Heck no! I was just as unprepared as everybody else.
I had tried the “smart way” once. It was stupid, because I’d already refined my last-minute technique and was getting good grades, but… » Continue
September 24 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: | 6 comments»
Many of us have a digital camera with us at all times these days, just by virtue of carrying around a cell phone. It’s an unbelievably useful tool: I feel like I find a new use for mine every day. I’ve put just a few of the ways I’ve used my camera to save myself a few bucks, and I hope you’ll add yours in the comments.
1. Protect Your… » Continue
September 23 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: camera, Money, photo | 16 comments»
There are literally millions of voices on the Internet. Blogs, Social networks, micromessaging services like Twitter, instant messaging services, email, wikis, forums, and dozens of technologies I haven’t even heard of – and dozens more to come – give us all an unprecedented ability to be heard.
But with all those voices clamoring for attention, how do you stand out from the crowd? More importantly, once you get someone’s attention, how… » Continue
September 22 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, credibility, internet, self-promotion, twitter, website | 12 comments»
If you’ve read my articles for any length of time, you know I’m an advocate of using paper task lists for your day-to-day task management needs. On a larger scale, such as for ubiquitous capture and weekly planning, I rely on technology, but I then use that large-scale system to form a daily task list on paper. This keeps me focused and burning through the tasks in rapid succession.
However, there… » Continue
September 22 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: | 10 comments»
Procrastination is very literally the opposite of productivity. To produce something is to pull it forward, while to procrastinate is to push it forward — to tomorrow, to next week, or ultimately to never.
Procrastination fills us with shame — we curse ourselves for our laziness, our inability to focus on the task at hand, our tendency to be easily led into easier and more immediate gratifications. And with good reason… » Continue
September 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, concepting, idea, planning, procrastination, task | 21 comments»
I had a senior-level writing course when I was in college. The first thing the professor told the class was that if any of us didn’t think we could handle honest critiques of our work, we should leave. Nobody did, of course, but over the course of the semester a few of my classmates wished they had. It wasn’t that the professor went out of his way to be… » Continue
September 18 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: critique, feedback | 12 comments»
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