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Posted on May 18, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Experience Your Good Now: Learning to Use Affirmations by Louise HayPublisher: Hay House, 2010Amazon Link: Experience Your Good Now!: Learning to Use AffirmationsISBN: 978-1-4019-2748-6 General Information This book’s purpose is to show you how to use affirmations. An affirmation, according to the book, is you “saying to your subconscious, ‘I [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Today is the release of Dr. Wayne Dyer’s new book: The Shift: Taking Your Life from Ambition to Meaning. A book designed to help us move from ego-centered living to living with a better purpose, it is a small book packed with information. Don’t let the size of the book [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Sometimes the right thing shows up in life just when you need it. It was the day I had stepped on the scale to find that the number had crept up…again. So when I opened my mailbox and found The Spark: The 28-Day Breakthrough Plan for Losing Weight, Getting Fit, [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I dislike wasted effort. And since I spend most of my days (and nights) on a computer, typing the same thing over and over again is wasted effort. I’ve had long experience with text replacers over the past five years. I started with [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2010 by LJ Earnest
I’ve always been skeptical of online money management tools. I couldn’t figure out what they would get me that I didn’t have already. And honestly, most online tools I had looked at before either only did accounts for a specific institution, or were a vehicle to sell me things. What [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by LJ Earnest
When I really need to blast through a lot of work, but really don’t want to, I use the (10+2) * 5 method invented by Merlin Mann. This method uses a timer, and you work for 10 minutes, followed by 2 minutes of anything you wish. Repeated 5 times, this [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. A few weeks ago one of my favorite blogs, Wise Bread, announced the publication of their first book. I was thrilled to bits, since I love the varying perspectives of the blog authors, and find the advice helpful and entertaining. The Wise Bread [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by LJ Earnest
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. When it boils down to it, being productive is about managing our commitments. Everything that we do requires us to commit to it on some level. Even taking out the trash is a commitment, since we commit our bodies to moving a bag [...]
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