7 Ways to Beat, Avoid, or Make the Most of Procrastination!
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
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
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Blog Posts of Awesomeness Past
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Friday Web Roundup: Preparing For Success, Digital Sharecropping, Being Mark Zuckerberg, and the Best Customer Service Ever!
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Friday Web Roundup: Confronting Stupid, Lessons from Border’s, Bill Gates’ Crappy Plan, and the World’s Worst Video Game Armor
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Winners of the “185 Teachers Walk Into a Bar” Contest!
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Monday Motivation – 10 Signs You May Not Be Doing What You Really Want
“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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Friday Web Roundup
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
Monday Motivation: 23 Reasons that Person You’re Jealous of is More Successful Than You
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
4 Ways to Make Your Product as Easy to Sell as an American Flag on the 4th of July!
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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By Avish Parashar. As the world's only Motivational Improviser, Avish uses techniques from the world of improv comedy to engage, entertain, and educate audiences on ideas around change, creativity, and motivation. Connect with Avish on Google+
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