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Braying Asses

by Stephen Mills December 4, 2009

Braying Asses: Media whores talking about Tiger Woods and his mistresses
Braying Asses: Mainstream and tabloid media covering Tiger Woods’ “transgressions”
Braying Asses: Tiger Woods’ mistresses
Silent Ass: Tiger Woods
Silent Ass So Far: Gloria Allred
Scary Ass: Elin – club-wielding wife of Tiger Woods
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Optimizing Your Working Memory – Part II

by Stephen Mills November 29, 2009
Working Memory

A lot of new research is showing that cognitive effort depletes your mental resources and you perform significantly worse on subsequent tasks. Make one difficult decision and your ability to make a second difficult decision is reduced. All conscious thinking uses up these resources and the more conscious effort it requires the more the resources are depleted. Will-power and self-control may not seem like the same thing as solving a complex problem, but they too rapidly deplete your brain’s thinking resources.

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Increasing Your Signal-To-Noise Ratio

by Stephen Mills November 20, 2009
Information Overload

Signal-to-noise ratio is defined by Wikipedia as “ratio of a signal power to the noise power corrupting the signal.” This concept comes from electrical engineering but it can be applied to information overload. I don’t know about you, but I constantly struggle with finding a signal hidden in all the background noise. I also worry that I’m creating more noise than signal. Thus, I’m looking for ways to increase the signal-to-noise ratio in the information I consume as well as the information I create.

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7 Simple Principles for Living the Good Life

by Stephen Mills October 26, 2009
Seven Principles

I don’t claim these 7 simple principles are the principles for living the good life. There are others that I reluctantly left out, but I chose these because they are simple and easy to understand.

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The Circumstances of Happiness

by Stephen Mills September 21, 2009
Gold Bars

Science has pretty much established that your circumstances are not very relevant to your happiness. The impact is not zero, but decades of research have shown that only about 10% of your happiness level is determined by external circumstances.

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Some Days You Just Don’t Have It

by Stephen Mills August 7, 2009

For three days I’ve been trying to figure out what to write a blog article about.  When I look at my list of ideas, nothing excites me.  I have nothing profound or interesting to say.  It’s really been bugging me.  I’ve been looking at material trying to come up with something that grabs me.  Nothing [...]

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The Power of Less – Identify the Essential

by Stephen Mills July 28, 2009
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We rationalize everything we do as important and essential when in fact it is not. Below are some questions to ask to help identify what is essential to you. But keep in mind the standard must be very high. Don’t just tell yourself everything is of the same value or everything is necessary, because it is most certainly not. Take an axe to your non-essential activities and maximize your time by concentrating on the most important.

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The Power of Less – Setting Limits

by Stephen Mills July 25, 2009
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Modern society is consumption oriented. Everything seems to be focused towards getting more stuff. To get more stuff we spend our time getting more money. Time is finite and so is human ability so there is a limit to what we can do. If we maximize productivity and time management practice, we can get more tasks done. But by trying to maximize the number of tasks we do, we end up doing unimportant things. This dilutes our focus and takes energy away from the more important tasks. We also end up stressed-out, overworked, and unhealthy.

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Wonderful Video

by Stephen Mills June 21, 2009

I found this on Lori’s blog. Just watch it. You won’t regret it.

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My Recent Favorites

by Stephen Mills May 26, 2009

“You can say no with respect, you can say no promptly and you can say no with a lead to someone who might say yes. But just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.”
Saying ‘no’ by Seth Godin
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