It kinda struck me just now, although I've always known deep down, that I'm not a very balanced person. I'm a to the hilt type of person. When I do something, I becoming fully involved in it.  I learn everything I can about it. It consumes most of my time and energy. For instance, my mother still tells me stories of how when I was a child I had a time when I would wake up on Saturday mornings and spend the entire day in my room playing with K'nex. I didn't care about anything else, except building with my construction toys. And I've had a few people ask when I was going to write more posts for this blog, and my answer has been that I am currently working on another blog project that I was tired of talking about and decided to start. My energy has been completely involved with this new project from brainstorming and general plans for how the blog will go, to custom designing the theme and writing around 15 posts to start the blog off with. So that epiphany got me thinking about which is better to be. Finish Reading »

"You must unlearn what you have learned." -Yoda

We've gone search crazy. There was a time when search was a joke. I vaguely remember the time when going through a Yahoo directory was the way to find what you were looking for. Then Google came along and quickly become the poster boy for an utopian society. Now our society is utterly reliant on Google. People even type in full URLs into Google instead of their address bar. With the Internet becoming increasingly more crowded, how much longer can we rely on the top 10 Google search results to be exactly what we're looking for? Use these tips to help make your searching more effective. Finish Reading »

We all have a general idea of what our "dream life" is, but taking the time to write down exactly what your dream is can be a fun and inspiring challenge.

I was recently hit with the challenge from Crystal to complete the Dream Meme.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison

I don't know if you are like me, but probably once a week I have one of the greatest ideas a person could ever had. Seriously. These ideas are life changing and in just a short time I'll be filthy rich with my own private island to prove it.

The problem is that they stay ideas. I might discuss them with a few friends and they might grow a little, but often they stay on paper or only a little bit gets done.

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Have you ever had it where you weren't very familiar with something but as soon as you got clued in you saw it everywhere?

That's the way it's been lately for me and my Moleskine Notebook. I first heard about them from this productivity post. So I figured why not and decided to make the purchase. I ended up buying four. I use one and gave three as gifts. Since then I've heard/seen references to them almost everywhere. I've seen blog posts, heard it mentioned on Freelance Radio, and even some stranger at the coffeehouse commented on me "being a moleskine guy". So what makes them such a great item that everybody is talking about it.

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