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24 August 2008 ~ 3 Comments

Initial thoughts about “Getting Things Done.”

Earlier this year it seemed like I was reading about David Allen’s book Getting Things Done all over the place on the internet. Most of the time it was on Twitter where people would shorten it to GTD. So I decided to take the plunge and buy the book. That was about two months ago. [...]

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23 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Stuff I like: LibraryThing.com

I’m a book junkie. I’ve bought way too many books in my life. I read a lot of them, but some of them I just read a few chapters and then get bored with it. Part of my problem is that I didn’t have a good system in place to keep track of books. That [...]

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21 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Stuff I Like: WalkJogRun.net

I just got back from a run tonight that was frustrating. I wasn’t frustrated with my performance, but with my lack of direction. About 20 minutes into the run I realized that I was turned around and at that point I knew that I wasn’t sure how far my run was going to end up [...]

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19 August 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Motivation: Finding the desire to workout when I really don’t want to do it.

It happens to almost all of us. We’re going about our everyday lives with not a care in the world, but it all changes. What prompts it, though, is different: hitting a milestone year of life, taking a good long look in the mirror and not liking what we’re seeing, getting winded from a short [...]

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18 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Stuff I Like: Mint.com

I’ve never been a fan of spending a long time tracking my money. I have not balanced my checkbook in over five years, but I have not once bounced a check or overdrawn my account. Most of this is due to the fact that I’ve been using Quicken for a while. But I even got [...]

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15 August 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Idea for saving money

Earlier this year I went through Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University. He outlines his plan for setting up a budget, eliminating debt, building an emergency savings fund, saving for the future, and much more. Ever since then I’ve been paying a lot closer attention to how I spend money and looking for ways to cut [...]

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14 August 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Feeling like a dad

One of the things that I thought would change once I became a dad was that I would feel different. I always assumed that since my world was about to get turned upsidedown that life would feel different at a very fundament level, that I wouldn’t ever feel like the person I was before Emory [...]

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