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Framing Changes Everything

Mar 5, 2010 3:46am

A young priest asked his bishop, “May I smoke while praying?” The answer was an emphatic “No!” Later, when he sees an older priest puffing on a cigarette while praying, the younger priest scolded him, “You shouldn’t be smoking while praying! I asked the bishop, and he said I couldn’t...

Deconstructing Creativity: The 4 Roles You Need to Play to be Fully Creative

Feb 2, 2010 4:16am

Do you want to be fully creative? To not only have wild ideas, but to actually create and bring remarkable things to life? There are four distinct roles to be performed for the creative process to be as effective as possible. Each one requires that you play different characters, with different...

50 Ways to Get Your Life in Order

Jan 12, 2010 4:20am

This is an article by guest writer Mark Foo, author of The 77 Traits of Highly Successful People. There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of chaos in your life. As Albert Einstein once stated, “Three rules of work: out of clutter find simplicity, from discord find harmony, in the middle...

Are you stuck in a rut? Run from the experts!

Dec 7, 2009 8:20am

You’re facing a big challenge at work and can’t come up with any innovative ideas. Maybe your business is flagging or a particular area in your personal life has stalled. Either way, you could really use fresh new ideas to spice things up. In situations like these it’s tempting to go...

Beat Parkinson’s Law and Supercharge Your Productivity

Nov 16, 2009 4:20am

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Even if you are not familiar with its name, I’m sure you’ve fallen prey to Parkinson’s Law countless times… what can we do to escape it? Do You Recognize These Symptoms? We all know the drill: when we...

6 Productivity Principles to Live By (My Personal Productivity Manifesto)

Oct 27, 2009 8:48am

Here are six principles I strive to live by. This is my own “personal productivity manifesto”: it summarizes what works for me about personal productivity. Whenever I follow these guidelines, I am at my very best, feeling productive and joyful. If I feel that I am doing things outside these...

How Can I Make Litemind More Useful for You?

Oct 8, 2009 3:10am

Will you help me make this website better? Today, instead of providing new content, I’d like to ask you to speak your mind and take this quick survey. It shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes, and your feedback will give me invaluable ideas and insights on how I can...

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Sep 25, 2009 6:55am

Do you ever have the impression that no one takes your ideas seriously? Why is it so difficult to get our great ideas across while urban legends and conspiracy theories circulate so effortlessly? It turns out these ideas and stories — the ones that spread like wildfire — all share...

Overcome Fear of Failure, Part II — 6 Powerful Strategies You Can Use

Sep 9, 2009 5:46am

In the first part of this series, we focused on building an effective mindset for overcoming fear of failure. Now it’s time to get down to action: here are 6 powerful strategies you can use to conquer fear of failure right off the bat. 1. Acknowledge Your Fear There’s a good...

Overcome Fear of Failure, Part I — Building the Right Mindset

Aug 26, 2009 5:18am

Does fearing failure paralyze you? Of all the reasons for inaction, the strongest one is not lack of ideas, tools, time or money. Usually, the enemy is entrenched much deeper inside our minds. Unless we learn to tackle our fear of failure, we’ll never be able to get the most...