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Be more productive in Evernote using templates
Most of you who know me know I am somewhat of an Evernote fanatic. As a matter of fact, I even wrote a book, Evernote for Real Estate. What I love about Evernote is how it saves me so much time by keeping everything in one location. If you use Evernote for business, there is [...]
My new e-book, Evernote for Real Estate
Hey y’all, it has been a while. Way to long. I have been working on a million things and trying to figure out where to go from here. Here is what I have decided. I love this blog, and this community and don’t want to give it up. At the same time I can not [...]
How sometimes “Being Productive” is not so productive
Every Sunday night I spend about 45 minutes doing a weekly review. This has helped me immensely to see where my strengths and weaknesses in my productivity systems. I can do a whole post on my weekly review, as a matter of fact now I have my blog fodder for next weeks post. Last week [...]
How to go from inbox 80,000 to zero, and stay there
Last week I wrote about how I manage my inbox zero on a daily basis, but it is a lot easier for me when I start every day at or near zero. What about for someone who has an inbox of over 80,000 and wants to try to be an email productivity ninja? Well a good friend [...]
How I process my email for inbox zero
If you read my last post on my effective use of the Pomodoro productivity system, you may not be clear about how I am currently managing my inbox zero. As I have mentioned before, inbox Zero was something I started in January of 2011 and with varying degrees of success have maintained for the last 15 months. Of those 15 months, the best months have [...]
Pomodoro: Show the tomato some love
Been a while It has been a while since I have blogged. That does not mean I have not been practicing productivity procedures, far from it. It just means I was deciding what to do with this blog. I have been blogging a lot about my physical and fitness transformation over at See Your Toes, [...]
Paleo salad dressing: Make healthy dressing in 2 minutes
When you eat a real food diet or a paleo diet you are going to end up eating a lot of vegetables. Eating lots of vegetables will undoubtedly mean salads. The problem with salads is the salad dressing. Even the “healthy lite” dressings are really garbage. Go ahead, pick up a bottle of healthy dressing and [...]
How to help your kids with spelling and fitness at the same time
So one thing we I do every week is help the kids with spelling words. Somehow it has become my responsibility to really make sure our 8-year old Rachel is ready come the end of the week. So what do I do on Monday? We break out the list and go through them twice and [...]
What to do with Halloween Candy
Getting kids to eat Paleo can be a little tricky at first, but eventually they come around to the goodness of real food. Getting kids to jump on the Paleo bandwagon at Halloween, well that is a whole challenge in and of itself. This is our first Paleo Halloween and the battle over Halloween candy [...]
Paleo, why it works for me where 4 Hour Body failed
The day 4 Hour Body came out I downloaded it to my iPad and started reading it. I think I stayed in bed until about noon that day plowing through the book and immediately started implementing the principles that Tim Ferris laid out in the book. One thing you need to know about me is [...]
Workout routine: A money back guarantee on exercise
How about this, I have an idea so good about exercise that I will give you a money back guarantee that I am right. All you need to do is send some money to my Paypal account and if I am wrong I will send your generous donation back to you. <crickets chirping>. OK so [...]
Stop the excuses, they smell like…. well you know
If you are a busy professional and a dad it is so easy, maybe too easy, to use time as an excuse to not exercise. As a busy professional, all you need is a 20 minute workout and no matter how busy you are you can find 20 minutes. This is a picture I saw [...]
