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Review: Eat People, or Get Rid of People To Increase Productivity

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

The title had me. When the email came through asking me if I was interested in this book, I did a double-take. A book on cannibalism? No. It turns out to be a book on entrepreneurs, and as the email explained, how productivity makes entrepreneurship possible. So I started to [...]

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How Little Could You Live On? A Review of “The 100 Thing Challenge”

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

Could you live with just 100 things? If you were so fed up with consumerism, and how much we are pressured to acquire, would you react by going in the opposite direction? Dave Bruno did. The 100 Thing Challenge: How I Got Rid of Almost Everything, Remade My Life, and [...]

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Spiritual Weight Loss | Review: A Course In Weight Loss

Posted on January 28, 2011 by

If you have ever, like most people, tried to lose weight, you have probably struggled with it. And you may have wondered why. After all, in theory losing weight is easy: eat less, move more. It is the number one New Year’s resolution, yet most people can’t do it. For [...]

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Make Blogging Work With Your Life. A Review: Simple Blogging

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Putting out a blog is a lot of work. And every day there are more articles out there about how I need to expand…into social media, other niches, other blogs…it’s really overwhelming to me. Because like you, I have a life. So when [...]

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Review: The Power of Intention

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

I like reviewing books for Hay House because they always take me out of my comfort zone. I may not always agree with the information, but it never fails to make me think. Sometimes I turn the information over in my head for weeks. Such is the case with Dr. [...]

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Make Your Life Truly Simpler with Inside Out Simplicity

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. Tossing away possessions, limiting spending and decluttering your scheduled are great first steps when it comes to simplifying your life. Dozens of books have been written on similar outward changes aimed at making life less complicated. The problem with outside simplicity is that [...]

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Manage Your Task List Effectively with Swift To-Do List

Posted on August 16, 2010 by

I haven’t been in the market to replace my tried and true task list manager. I’ve been using it for years, and it has suited me well. Last week Jiri Novotny of Dextronet contacted me to ask me to review his new software, Swift To-do List. The software blew me [...]

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Review: The Daysteps Planner

Posted on June 21, 2010 by

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Product Description The Daysteps planner is a spiral bound 8.5″ x 11″ planner with different sections. Its goal is to allow you to actually plan out what you want to do, keeping balance in mind. Company Background Daysteps is a small company out [...]

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