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7 Ways to Beat, Avoid, or Make the Most of Procrastination!

September 6, 2011 - 2 Comments
Categories: Business Advice, Lists, Motivation & Success

I just discovered that today, September 6th, is “Fight Procrastination Day.” I’ve never heard of this day before. Frankly, it sounds like something somebody came up with while they were putting off doing real work. Whatever its origin, it seems like a nice launching point for an article about procrastination… I originally though about making […]

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Friday Web Roundup: Laughter makes You Healthy, Irrational People Get Violent, Rich Kids Have Too Much Time and Too Little Sense, Stupid Infomercials, and Super Mario Gets a Portal Gun

September 2, 2011 - 0 Comments
Categories: Just Funny, Lists, Motivation & Success

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It’s Friday and, knock on wood, the east coast has not been hit with an earthquake, hurricane, tornado, locust plague, or an invasion of seemingly benevolent but in fact incredibly hostile aliens (though there are still two days left in the week…). To celebrate our first “natural disaster free” week in almost two weeks, here […]

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Blog Posts of Awesomeness Past

September 1, 2011 - 0 Comments
Categories: Business Advice, Lists, Motivation & Success

You ever one of those days when you just feel blocked, where the words won’t flow? I do. Right now. At this moment, I have nothing awesome to say… Since I recently posted a lesson I learned about being awesome, and how you shouldn’t post something unless it’s awesome, I have decided not to force […]

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Friday Web Roundup: Preparing For Success, Digital Sharecropping, Being Mark Zuckerberg, and the Best Customer Service Ever!

August 26, 2011 - 0 Comments
Categories: Lists, Motivation & Success

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It’s Friday, and here in the Northeast we are preparing for what may be our worst storm ever – and this is only a couple of days after we had an earthquake! Times are stressful, so why not kick back, relax, and enjoy a little good old fashioned web surfing? Here are a few links […]

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Friday Web Roundup: Confronting Stupid, Lessons from Border’s, Bill Gates’ Crappy Plan, and the World’s Worst Video Game Armor

July 22, 2011 - 0 Comments
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Its Friday, Friday, Gotta get Down on Friday, which means it’s time for a little good old fashioned procrastination. Here are a few links you might enjoy – I know I did! Confronting Stupid  A great little post fro Seth Godin’s blog about how more and more jobs these days “require a different sort of […]

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Winners of the “185 Teachers Walk Into a Bar” Contest!

July 19, 2011 - 11 Comments
Categories: Improv Comedy, Just Funny, Lists

The first ever Motivational Smart Ass contest is now officially over, and we have a winner! I want to thank everyone who participated. This being my first time trying this, I honestly had no idea how it would go. I’m excited to say that I am super happy with the participation and results! There were […]

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Monday Motivation – 10 Signs You May Not Be Doing What You Really Want

July 18, 2011 - 0 Comments
Categories: Business Advice, Lists, Motivation & Success

“Doing what you really want,” sounds great, but it can be a tricky business. You have to figure out what you really want. You need to create a plan to do it. You need to stay on track when things go wrong. Before you can do any of that, you need to honestly assess whether […]

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Friday Web Roundup

July 15, 2011 - 4 Comments
Categories: Improv Comedy, Just Funny, Lists

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I tend to surf the web more than I should (you might call it, “procrastinating”). Rather than letting all that idle time be a complete waste, I decided to compile the interesting stuff I came across and share it with you. Enjoy! Life Lessons From 40 Films in 7 Minutes Some fan edited together a […]

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Monday Motivation: 23 Reasons that Person You’re Jealous of is More Successful Than You

July 11, 2011 - 1 Comment
Categories: Lists, Motivation & Success

1) They’ve been doing it longer than you – A couple of years can make e big difference. 2) They woke up earlier – You can get a lot done with an extra hour a day. 3) They stayed up later – Ditto. 4) They worked harder – Hate to say it, but a little […]

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4 Ways to Make Your Product as Easy to Sell as an American Flag on the 4th of July!

July 6, 2011 - 2 Comments
Categories: Business Advice, Lists

Selling sucks. There, I’ve said it. The question now is, “What do we do about it??” That can be a complicated question, but I have a simple solution: make the selling process as easy on yourself as possible. This past 4th of July Weekend, not only was I reminded of that lesson, but I also […]

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