Here’s an excerpt from a post I did yesterday over at my business blog…
“Tools without thought or tactics are worthless so I try to remind myself that email is best used as a tool for ‘just in time’ information – information that affects relationships and revenue. All your ‘just in case’ information belongs in a virtual newspaper like Google Reader. Think of how much lighter your email load would be if you didn’t let newsletters and other detritus in? How often have you started down the path to Inbox Zero and then been waylaid by a Victoria’s Secret or Cabella’s catalog in your inbox. There’s a time and a place for that; the time is your ‘personal news aggregation’ time and the place is Google Reader. My advice? Use Gmail for email with a touch of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero and David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ and you’ll be an INBOX HERO in no time!
If you’re looking for help in this area, try my online book on ‘personal news aggregation’ or how to create your own personal news agency. You can register free at http://e1evation.com/pna. Here are two recent lunch and learns I did on the topic of Gmail and Google Reader as well…” via Coping With Email Overload | e1evation.
‘We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.’ ~ Lloyd Alexander via » What I’ve Learned About Learning :zenhabits.
“”Soul Brother #1,”The Godfather of Soul,” “Mr. Dynamite,” “Sex Machine,” “The Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk.” These are some of the names by which the world would eventually know James Joseph Brown, Jr., the revolutionary musical figure who was born on this day in 1933. The story Brown himself would often tell is that he appeared stillborn when he first came into the world, but that an aunt attending his birth managed to breathe life into him.
Long before he changed the course of 20th-century popular music and crowned himself “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business,” little James Brown may well have been the hardest working boy in Augusta, Georgia, where he was sent to live with his Aunt Honey Washington at the age of six. He’d spent the previous several years with his father, James, Sr., who scraped out a meager living selling pine tar to the local turpentine factory in the woods of Barnwell County, South Carolina, just down the Savannah River from Augusta. James’s mother had left with another man when James was only four, and while Aunt Honey would play something of a maternal role for James, the fact that she ran a brothel and sold moonshine for a living made for anything but a traditional upbringing.” via James Brown is born — History.com This Day in History — 5/3/1933.
“It can be tough to stop resenting someone. It takes a deliberate decision—an oomph—to turn our thinking around. For starters, it can be helpful to remember that those around us eventually grow weary of listening to us whine, even if we were wronged. There is a point where enough is enough.
We need to feel our emotions. We don’t want to get into repression or denial, but once we’ve felt the emotion, it’s time to let it go and turn the situation around. Envy and ill will can be a constant undercurrent in our thinking, if we don’t consciously seek to pluck out these emotions. It may feel like other people are constantly getting the good luck, that we have none, and that the good luck others are getting was somehow taken from us. It’s not true. And resenting others and spreading ill will doesn’t help us or improve our situation.
“There’s a lot of haters out there in the world,” a man said to me. “They don’t even know they’re spreading hate by the envious, bitter little thoughts they think.” via May 3 | Language of Letting Go.
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” ~ Abraham Maslow via Today’s Quotes: Go FORWARD Towards Growth!.
“Rosebushes and other plants produce more buds than the plant can sustain. The plant has enough life and resources to feed and nurture only so many buds to their full potential; it can’t bring all of them to full bloom. In order for the best to thrive, a certain number of buds have to go. The caretaker constantly examines the bush to see which buds are worthy of the plant’s limited fuel and support and cuts the others away. He prunes them. Takes them away, never to return. He ends their role in the life of the bush and puts an end to the bush’s having to divert resources to them.
“In doing so, the gardener frees those needed resources so the plant can direct them to the buds with the greatest potential to become mature roses. Those buds get the best that the bush has to offer, and they thrive and grow to fullness. But the rosebush could not do this without pruning. It is a necessity of life for rosebushes. Without endings, you don’t get the best roses.” -Henry Cloud, as excerpted from Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward via Anderson Layman’s Blog: On Pruning……………...
Good stuff from the lovely and brilliant Gemma Stone…
“Subconscious habits can be extraordinarily annoying. And extraordinarily helpful.
Acting without thinking can be frustrating (hey, where did that piece of cake go!?)
Acting without thinking can also be ultra effective. Thank goodness we don’t have to consciously think about the 10,000 things we do everyday. How exhausting would that be?
Just in case you have a few subconscious habits that are falling into the annoying and frustrating category, check out this video for a strategy to “rewire” subconscious habits.” via Changing subconscious habits | Gemma Stone.
“You attract to you in relationship who you are. Do you like what you see? You are constantly in relationship with yourself.The partners you attract to you in the form of the man or woman are a physical manifestation of who and where you are in your own consciousness at this moment in time. Look at who you are attracting. What does this mirror to you about your own self?There is so much talk about finding the perfect partner.” via How To Attract The Perfect Partner!.
Bright, shiny objects! 
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