Archive | August, 2012
Food and Drink August 27, 2012

Lack Time or Energy? Try Optimizing Your Diet

This is post is by Andy Fiedler. With all of the demands on our time: work, friends, and working on whatever expertise we want to cultivate, a healthy diet can often take a back seat. I think this is a huge mistake! Good, healthy food gives us the consistent energy we need to maintain our [...]

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Becoming an Expert August 22, 2012

10 Self-Affirmations to Hack Self-Confidence Daily

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This post is by Rob Leonardo, creator of Confidence Cues. An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but only a dose of positive affirmations can keep your energy and confidence high throughout the day. Remez Sasson of SuccessConsciousness defined affirmations as positive statements that describe a desired situation, repeated many times to influence the [...]

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Random Awesomeness August 20, 2012

5 Ways To Find Meaning In Your Life

Finding Meaning Of Life

This post is by Juanita Gomez. What is the meaning of life? A question that has been asked an infinite amount of times since conscious life began on this planet. I am not a particularly philosophical person, but if you are, biologist Jeremy Griffith presents the best explanation of the meaning of all things on [...]

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Random Awesomeness August 15, 2012

Speak Any Language Fluently: 6 Study Hacks From Learning German

I started to learn German after a day trip to Berlin 5 years ago. I fell in love with the culture and language immediately and decided that I would be speaking German Fluently by my next birthday. My affair with the German language eventually went from romantic to reality, and we had to work together [...]

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Becoming an Expert August 13, 2012

Curiosity Saved the Cat & Created an Expert

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This essay is by Chris Hutton. Curiosity is central to all that we do to educate ourselves.  It is what drives our desires, our need to learn, and much more.   In fact, as I’ve grown throughout my life, I found that curiosity began to appear more and more for me, as opposed to the myth I was [...]

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Becoming an Expert August 8, 2012

11 Life-Changing Strategies for Meeting Deadlines

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This post is by Andrea Nordstrom of The Art of ADD. I have recently discovered that the blogosphere is without doubt one of the most proliferative realms of the Internet. Blogging is not only a casual hobby but an essential business strategy for any entrepreneur in the new economy. But it’s a competitive arena to [...]

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Becoming an Expert, Supporting Yourself August 6, 2012

Supplement Your Income (And Finally Monetize Your Blog) By Selling eBooks

This is a guest post by Alexis Grant of AlexisGrant.com Everyone’s always talking about how to monetize your blog. But ads are ugly, affiliate sales are only as big as your audience, and consulting ties you to an hourly rate. Here’s a strategy that’s far more lucrative: creating and selling ebooks. Don’t have a clue [...]

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Becoming an Expert August 1, 2012

How to Brand Yourself as an Expert Without Wasting Your Time

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This is a guest post by Stanley Lee. Why do you want to market yourself as an expert? What do you fear the most on your specialization journey? If you want to earn more respect without getting severely penalized for expertise not working out, read on. The End of Specialization Malcolm Gladwell gets misquoted a [...]

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Random Awesomeness May 16, 2013

15 Probing Questions to Help You Bust Through Limiting Beliefs

You have great intentions, but you don’t follow through. You tell yourself you want change, but you’re too afraid to [...]

Becoming an Expert April 24, 2013

10 Uncommon Habits That Will Make You a Better Writer

If you’re the student that got highest marks in writing and composition in school, you learned to please a very [...]

Audio / Video April 10, 2013

3 Tips To Help You Create Great Looking Videos

Learning how to create great looking videos is a skill that will prove to be insanely useful during your life. Whether [...]

Random Awesomeness April 3, 2013

Adopt This Mindset On Your Road To Expertise

Golf is fantastic sport. You’re out in nature and socializing with friends and new acquaintances. You might even be using [...]

Becoming an Expert March 19, 2013

14 Tips For A Great Business Plan

Think of running a business like taking a trip. You have a great vision for where you want to take [...]

Random Awesomeness February 25, 2013

11 Steps to Decode the Creative Process

Imagine passing through a metro station in Washington DC at rush hour. Imagine watching a violinist with an open case [...]