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Getting Organized – A Task’s Life

July 19, 2010 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development • by

[This is part two in a series of posts about "Getting Organized" using the Evernote toolset.]
Getting Organized Series Outline

Introduction and License Giveaway
A Task’s Life
The Death of a Task, Man
451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks

The Life of A Task

The system I am using has a few stages. The stages all happen quickly as they are easy [...]

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Getting Organized – Goodbye Paper?

July 15, 2010 • Categories: Pet Peeve, Professional Development • by

[This is the first in a 4 part series of posts about "Getting Organized" , on track and my use of Evernote.]
Getting Organized Series Outline

Introduction and License Giveaway
A Task’s Life
The Death of a Task, Man
451 Degrees – Good For Notebooks

Do you struggle with organization? Note taking? Note Finding? I do and I could have found [...]

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T-SQL Tuesday – Captains Mentor and Teach

July 12, 2010 • Categories: #tsqltuesday, Life Lessons, metablogging, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier on twitter) and he asked us about learning and teaching. More on the Captain Quote at the bottom.
How Do you Learn? How Do you Teach? YES
Robert asked those two questions (along with some others) to help inspire ideas for the topic. If you combine [...]

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Plan To Fail – Part Two

May 19, 2010 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

Let me share a little secret with you – You are going to fail. You’ll have multiple failures in diverse areas in life. It’s what you do with them that predicts if you’ll be an overall success.
In the first post of this two part series, we talked about including [...]

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Plan To Fail Or Don’t Expect To Succeed

May 18, 2010 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

In this post I’m going to let you in on a secret- You are going to fail. More than once and in more than one way. It’s what you do with the failure that matters.

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Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – A Review

April 29, 2010 • Categories: Book Review, metablogging, Professional Development • by

Having trouble getting your ideas accepted? I read a book that can help you. You can read the review or just go out and get the book, I recommend it. “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.” There is a link ‘below the fold.’
Yes, some readers got what they needed from the [...]

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Day Job Lessons From The Garden

April 23, 2010 • Categories: Life Lessons, Professional Development, Syndicate • by

It’s spring and in addition to our usual vegetable garden and some existing fruit crops, we are putting in a row of 15 blueberry bushes. Well the past two nights I’ve been outside for 3-4 hours digging a trench (about 40′ long by 2.5′ wide and 1′ deep. right, I said feet.) by hand and [...]

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