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Day: December 28, 2012

Less talk more make

Day 363 | Less talk. More doing

Contrary to what you might think from this blog I don’t like to talk very much about what I’m doing, unless I’m actually doing something. Normally I keep my plans fairly quiet until enough is in place and happening. Talking is easy. Doing, that is the bit that matters.

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Designing your life

On designing your life

If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you, and you may just not like their idea of balance. Nigel Marsh in his How to make work-life balance workTED talk Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/wainwright/123236611

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Working hard

Day 362 | Reassessing the way things turned out

At the end of yesterday’s post I linked to the page on my site that talks about what these 2012 Day by day posts are about. It stings a little in my heart doing so because I haven’t achieved what I set out to do. Things have turned out differently

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Why you should write every day

You probably think you have nothing to write about but once you start it gets hard to stop. Honestly. Writing is an incredibly important skill at all levels. By writing every day you reflect on things in a different and clearer way and you become better at expressing yourself. If you haven’t tried writing every day, give it a try for 30 days to begin with. I did it every day of 2012. Seth Godin has done it for years and swears by it.