Preview! The Seven Secrets of the Prolific Cover

Here’s the draft cover for my new book, The Seven Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism and…

19 Jun 2011 ⋅ by ⋅ in Blog ⋅ 0 Comments
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The Lifelong Activist now online!

I’m very pleased to announce that the entire text to my book The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (Lantern Books,…

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Perfectionism and Human Relations

Or, more specifically: sex. I mainly write on procrastination and perfectionism in one’s work, but the same principles apply in other parts of our…

17 Jun 2011 ⋅ by ⋅ in Blog ⋅ 0 Comments
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How Much Does Labeling Hurt?

How much does it hurt when parents or others unfairly label us? An acquaintance recently told about how, after her 13-year-old daughter broke her wrist playing sports, her Dad, who had taken her to the hospital, responded to her expressions of pain by telling her, “Don’t be a wimp.” Later, when Mom showed up, the daughter’s first words were not about her painful injury, but an outraged and accusatory: “He called me a wimp!”

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The Perils of Overgiving

There are plenty of selfish, exploitative people in the world – no doubt. But most of the people I encounter in my workshops and coaching have the opposite problem – they’re overgivers, perennially sacrificing their needs and missions to others’. That’s a much nobler problem, but still a problem.

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Emo About the Commute

this guy sounds pretty emo about his commute, but I actually agree with him 100%. commuting is dreadful and cars are the most overrated appliance. The less I drive, the less I want to drive.

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Stephen Hawking on Leveraging Your Strengths

In this interview, Hawking gives the same basic advice I hear from successful…

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Greetings Greenhorn Connecters!

Happy to see you here – feel free to browse, kick the tires, etc. If you…

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How to Overcome Procrastination by Lowering Your Energy of Activation

I’ve been obsessed lately with the concept of energy of activation (Ea) – the energy you put into a system to get it to change. If there’s a task you procrastinate on, try reducing its “Ea” by, (1) optimizing your environment, and (2) getting some of the preconditions out of the way earlier.

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Shakespeare on Ambition

Hamlet: To me is a prison. Rosencrantz: Why then your ambition makes it one. ‘Tis too narrow for your mind. Hamlet: O God, I could be bounded in…

24 Apr 2011 ⋅ by ⋅ in Blog ⋅ 0 Comments
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Perfectionism Quotes

Here’s a fantastic page of them: http://www.quotelady.com/subjects/perfectionism.html Some good ones: A child becomes an adult when he realises that…

19 Apr 2011 ⋅ by ⋅ in Blog ⋅ 0 Comments
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Vegan Integrity and the Fate of a Vegan Whistleblower

The truly valuable thing Quarrygirl did was prove that the vegan community has integrity, and that we are not so weak or authoritarian or cultlike that we cannot challenge the lies of our leaders. She also exposed lies that were not just wrong on their own merits (a violation of journalistic ethic as well as veganism), but that would have been exposed eventually, and probably in ways that would have done infinitely more harm.

18 Apr 2011 ⋅ by ⋅ in Blog ⋅ 6 Comments
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