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MAY 10, 2010

if that inner voice is telling you your blog posts are not well written, commit to taking a writing course to bolster your skills and confidence. Take time to review them, particularly when self-doubt is hammering away at you. Personal affirmations – Counter the negative talk with positive.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

What you just read is just a chapter from my upcoming ebook: “Assess – Decide – Do: Natural Productivity&#. The ebook will be launched this Friday, on September 17th, but you will be able to pre-order it at a significant discount starting this Wednesday. And I’m big time looking forward to the ebook.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

What’s This Ebook About? Just in case you’re thinking I had nothing else to do than to write on the blog, on the ebook or write Objective C code. This is what this ebook is about. The ebook is structured in 3 levels: the conceptual one, the practical exercises and the tutorial for the iPhone/iPad app. This is the ebook.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here are some things you will learn from this ebook. In the last part of the ebook, after you have incorporated the base concepts, you will have something to work with, literally in your hands, and that is a tutorial for my iPhone / iPad app inspired by Assess – Decide – Do, iAdd [iTunes link]. Which is exactly in 48 hours.

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APRIL 26, 2010

It now has over 150 free personal excellence articles and free ebooks, chocked full of content and value. After 4 months of blogging, I started to give 1-1 coaching for readers who want personalized attention on their goals. Form clear goals and hold yourself accountable to them.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Ebooks They are simplest to build, because they involve mostly writing. As a rule of thumb, an ebook should provide more information than a blog post, or a series of blog posts. Ebooks can be both paid and free. I don’t think you should focus more on the problem solved by that ebook than on its price. write some ebooks.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Entering Shoeboxed One advantage of having a fairly popular blog is that you get a lot of product review requests. Tagged as: Digital Tools , expenses , receipt management , review , shoeboxed Liked it? How To Fall Back In Love Reply 2 Sonny Byrd September 9, 2010 at 3:45 pm Thanks for the thorough review Dragos! Well, I dont.

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JULY 19, 2010

In January 2010 I wrote an entire ebook based on this post (an ebook which still sells, by the way) and in February I created the printed version of that ebook. Samurai- Way of the warrior iPhone-iPod game review Reply 11 Eric | Eden Journal July 24, 2010 at 1:15 am Cool idea, looks like everyone is jumping into it.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 4, 2012

Heck, I even wrote an ebook about it. These posts aren’t coming from people who feel they don’t have the skills, by the way. It lands in your inbox out of the blue, and it needs to be read, reviewed, edited, approved, formatted, scheduled, and distributed, not to mention commented on and moderated once it gets published.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

… This sense of orientation is built in time, by observing and understanding your specific market demands and your own unique skills. I will compile an ebook and make it available on this blog as a free download in a couple of days. Do workshops? Write books? The Hare And The Tortoise Blogging is much like a tortoise race.

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AUGUST 6, 2010

Last week he launched his first ebook, called Upgrade Reality. He also nick-named the ebook: “The no-nonsense guide to overcoming personal obstacles and getting the life of your dreams.&# The ebook is easy to read but it’s not an easy ebook. I wonder how many of us would write a self-improvement ebook at 25.

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JANUARY 1, 2012

It’s the first day of 2012 and I think it’s time to review my taming monkeys experiment. By replacing my goals with a pack of monkeys, I shifted from a one-two-three evaluation of my life, to a more playful and guilt free approach. Finishing a fiction ebook was something that was very positive inside my head. What About 2012?

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 6, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Public Speaking Skills Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 6, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Don’t allow these people to control the pace of your speech.You also need to practice skills for handling interruptions. Thanks for visiting!

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APRIL 5, 2010

But behind laughing, this joke tells a lot about our own goal setting approach. Goal Setting and Your Private Magic Fairy How many times you did your goal setting the same way the lost Bedouin did? Goal setting is a tricky thing. Every time you establish some goal, put yourself in the lost Bedouin shoes.

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MARCH 8, 2010

1 trackback } Unautomate Your Finances Reviews, Praise, & Results April 7, 2010 at 10:18 pm { 11 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mihaï March 9, 2010 at 10:39 am Dragos, What financial freedom would be like? As simple or as complicated as you see fit. { Recent Posts Do You Have The “Glass Wall&# Syndrome?

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MAY 6, 2010

You carry around a mental model of what’s “ average ” or “acceptable” and whatever part of you which doesn’t fit the description is immediately identified, labeled and stored for further review. I want to say I use guilt, because if I don’t meet said goal I do get a bit of guilty feelings. This would make a good podcast.

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JUNE 30, 2010

The Upcoming Ebook On ADD But wait. So, I started to write an ebook which will deal exclusively with this ADD framework. Anyway, until I have a decent number of downloads / feedback /review I won’t be able to say if the price is really a steal or not. The review in particular keeps you in touch with the bigger picture.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

For example, investing half an hour daily in writing an ebook will do more for your blog than spending half an hour daily in commenting in other blogs. Your ebook may be lousy and turn into nothing, and one of your random but well written and to the point comments may catch the attention of a book publisher and land you a writing position.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

For example, investing half an hour daily in writing an ebook will do more for your blog than spending half an hour daily in commenting in other blogs. Your ebook may be lousy and turn into nothing, and one of your random but well written and to the point comments may catch the attention of a book publisher and land you a writing position.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

It’s not an ebook and it’s not a course. And if you are going to get commission for pushing someone else’s ebook why not disclose that instead of hiding behind a redirect? The ebook is $27 and you can buy it from here. It’s both of them in one package and more. It’s solid material. Guess what, it was written by me too.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

7 Personal Development Lessons – Kung Fu Panda Style My Top 7 Demotivating Habits 6 Degrees Of Integration How Goal Setting Works (For Me) Do You Know Your Twisted Roots? Spread the word: Save This To Delicious Subscribe to posts Related Posts Is Water A Super Computer? I Can Be Better? link] Warren´s last blog.

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MARCH 18, 2010

New Dynamic Checklist System We all know how hard it can be to keep on top of our goals if we can’t see our progress. You can find out how they did it, and you can ask them how to get your own skills to the point that they can support you in the gamer lifestyle. Yax’s brilliant creation fixes that problem. We loved this course.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Now, what’s the thing with this ebook? And if you want to know more than one simple sentence, relax and sit down, I’ll tell you all about the 4 points this ebook won from my part. Which is kinda makes sense since we’re talking about an ebook on networking. Because it didn’t look like an ebook at all.

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APRIL 29, 2010

One could argue that this will be a tutorial for rewiring your brain, while others may think that this will be just a review for a product I like. The goal is to keep your attention steady, without being distracted. The goal is to train your ability to stick with the correct situation than to do it faster. Thanks for sharing!

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MARCH 25, 2010

I think 75% of my work right now is writing (in the form of blog posts, blog comments or ebooks). You know, the type of work which requires only a laptop, a decent internet connection, some brilliant ideas or skills and persistence. What Type Of Work Does A Digital Nomad Do? Primarily, writing, at least for me.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

As always, these things are just my own interpretation of the events, and may not be taken as a review of the movie. After seeing all of the positive reviews, I decided to see it and did not like it too much in spite of being a fan of all of the actors. Now, let’s see what can we learn from it too. Richard´s last blog.

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OCTOBER 11, 2007

6 days ago RT @ WinWeb Focus on Your Small Business Goals - [link] 6 days ago Perluondo: "They're exactly the demographics I'm looking for." My company has had several magazine reviews and newspaper articles written about my success and personal achievement as a woman in business. www.tattooaftercare.co.uk

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JULY 6, 2010

It never went up to the level of bribing me for a good review, no need to think that far, but they completely changed their attitude towards me. I was a strong link in their financial ecosystem. So, they needed to protect me, or at least to have a (very) good relationship with me. And the fact that I was validating them remained.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Not only I finished another ebook, one that is very close to me, called “ Assess – Decide – Do: Natural Productivity ” but I also finished a brand new version of iAdd, my iPhone / iPad implementation for the ADD framework. Not to mention that one third of the ebook is a very comprehensive manual of iAdd.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

3 Monitor Your Writing Goals It’s easy to get caught in some other things and forget how many articles you set up to write for the current week. In a head to head challenge you establish a common goal with one of your blogging friends. At the end of this process, the ebook is released, usually for free. As easy as that.

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MAY 26, 2010

The Subtle Comfort Of The Discomfort Zone Fear Of Failure, Self-Sufficiency and Money My Top 7 Demotivating Habits How Goal Setting Works (For Me) The Art Of New Beginnings 5 Unusual Ways To Measure Your Online Reputation Mariner Promo Code – November Edition How to Assess, Decide, Do with Pen, Paper and Magnets Are You Copy Pasting Your Life?

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

I should really get around to reviewing it for The Emotion Machine. Parker Lee´s last blog. 2010’s Most Attractively Sexiest Halloween Costumes Reply 2 Steven October 29, 2010 at 4:17 pm Dragos, this is a really great exercise for organizing your workload. Maybe I can get some of my friends to try it out.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

If there are ebooks that I recommend, you can be sure I read them and I have great respect for those ebooks or they authors. I’d say 2 to 3 months might be a good goal, doing a little each week. Affiliate marketing means a lot of work, a lo of discipline, vision and persistence. It also needs a lot of honesty.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The benefits included a renewed confidence in my writing, massive amounts of ideas for articles, and a honing of my skills. Staying consistent in order to achieve a goal is greatness. The lesson I gained is that it’s good to consistently review your consistency to see if it’s a good habit or a bad one! Well done.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Make a mental list of all the awesome things that will happen if you achieve your goal In my case, that would be earning some money, and spreading the knowledge among people who will truly benefit from it. This step will help you clarify exactly why you want to achieve your goal in the first place.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

At the same time, the most visited blogger in Romania wrote a very negative review about this project. I have read 30+ of these posts as Abubakar has been following them and we are working on the ebook but I have never read such unique lessons and such a brave perspective. In fact, he wrote an entire negative blog post about my person.

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APRIL 19, 2010

Weekly Reviews This is a concept borrowed from GTD (I was a big fan of GTD, although lately I’m just using a slightly downsized version of it). Reply 3 Eduard @ People Skills Decoded April 20, 2010 at 11:44 am Hey Dragos, Thanks for this. Eduard @ People Skills Decoded´s last blog. Thank you so much!

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