Everybody is worrying these days about conserving energy and one of the supposed problems is the chargers for your devices continuing to take unneeded power once the battery is charged.  An enterprising RISD student solves the problem.

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I have complained about my difficulty in organizing my time, getting the most out of the time I have and making sure that I take care of long term goals as well as those immediate calls for my attention that seem important at the time but do nothing about getting my to new achievements.  It turns out that, as usual, it is my own limited imagination that keeps me from seeing a better way.  Steve Scott has managed to get his life organized and profitable using the web but what got me excited today is his no nonsense way of planning his activities – by the week.  I am going to start using his system moving forward with some new goals and ideas for my web and business activities and I am optimistic that this powerful yet simple system will help me pick up momentum.  If you are having problems organizing your time, maybe Steve’s system is what you are looking for as well.

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Never underestimate the power of the unconscious mind

People underestimate the power of the unconscious mind. Because of their ignorance this very powerful part of our brain works against us rather than for us. I was reminded of this while musing about Donny Deutch’s quote on failure. He talks about the problem of people setting a goal for themselves NOT to fail.

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Moving on up

Earlier I posted about my wife’s first car and her initiation on the freeways of Los Angeles when they were at their prime. She caught on fast and soon the trusty Vega no longer fit her image. We had just bought our first house, three blocks from the beach in swinging Manhattan Beach and she was ready for a new car- still a Chevrolet but a far cry from the Vega. She was on the hunt for a Corvette and before long she found it. It cost her the princely sum of $6,000 in 1974 and it was her pride and joy. She loved that car and it did have a raffish charm. She drove it to her design jobs around LA and to her teaching gig at Cal Arts.

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Creativity is about freedom.  In order for people to be free to create, they need to feel free to fail.  You can’t fear failure.  If you want to create a world that values creation above everything else, first and foremost you have to take fear out of the equation.  You have to create a culture that can accept failure, live with failure, not be fearful of failure.  So much of what we do in life as businesspeople is failure-averse.  It’s amazing how many businesses and management teams and people I have met make their important decisions based on fear of failure, tripping up, or being ostracized.  The driving force for them is not success; it is failure avoidance.  No. You need to embrace failure.”

Hip and successful advertising executive Donny Deutsch says this about failure in his autobiographical book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt.  No need to embelish.  The quote speaks powerfully enough.

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Time management struggles

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What’s in a name?

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Not to be confused with  iPod, this odd-looking silicone gadget can make some of your more difficult cooking chores easier.  Fill it with whatever you might want to immerse in hot water and cook away.  Lift it out with the convenient handle when you are done.

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How long will it be before Bollywood conquers the world?

English translation here although it is hardly necessary.


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re·mark·a·ble

/rɪˈmɑrbəl/ Show Spelled[ri-mahr-kuh-buhl] Show IPA

–adjective

1.     notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.

2.     worthy of notice or attentio

That is what Dictionary.com says about remarkable. To me it means something that stands out; something with a unique quality that differentiates it from other things; peerless; without compare. In other words, pretty special.

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