Zen To Done – The Ultimate Simple Productivity System

November 26, 2007

Leo Babauta of the wildly popular Zen Habits blog has released an 83-page e-book called Zen To Done for $9.50.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
1 Why ZTD?
2 Overview – What is it?
3 Minimal ZTD – the simpler alternative
4 Forming the 10 Habits
5 Habit 1: Collect
6 Habit 2: Process
7 Habit 3: Plan
8 Habit 4: Do
9 Habit 5: Simple, [...]

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Do You Need a Kindle?

November 25, 2007

Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com recently released the Kindle (see below). When I saw the Kindle, I said to myself, “Self, I want to buy the Kindle NOW!!”

I grabbed my credit card and browsed over to Amazon.com.
I was ready and “Gung Ho” to buy it. But, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of [...]

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Teaching Kids The Lessons of Giving

November 24, 2007

I heard an interview on NPR about this book and how to teach kids the lessons of giving. I cannot find the interview, but the book includes ways to teach your kids for a lifetime of giving. Absolutely fantastic!!
I will continue to look for the interview. I believe it was on the [...]

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Homecoming – John Bradshaw

November 22, 2007

From John Bradshaw’s Homecoming.
“One never comes home until one prefers a gentle heart to mastery over other lives. One comes home when one learns how to bring a gift and how to receive one.
When one is home, he gives love, makes comfort, hurts for justice. One is homeward bound when one is more [...]

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Thanksgiving 2007

November 22, 2007

Happy Thanksgiving Folks!!
Here’s one of my favorites from the pen of Paul Claudel (I think).
“There is no one of my brothers – I can do without.In the heart of the meanest miser, the most squalid prostitute, the most miserable drunkard, there is an immortal soul with holy aspirations, which deprived of daylight, worships in the [...]

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