“Because if you are like most people, then like most people, you don’t know you’re like most people. Science has given us a lot of facts about the average person, and one of hte most reliable of these facts is that hte average person doesnt’ see herself [or himself] as average. Most studnets see themselves [...]
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This is easily one of the most important posts (out of over 500) that I have ever written and recorded. As someone who has suffered from chronic indecision and the consequential doubt and incapacitation caused by indecision, this is one of my most personally helpful posts, but anyone will benefit from this. Even if you [...] History and “Will it Work?” What is The Pomodoro Technique? Directly from their website: The Pomodoro Technique® is a way to get the most out of time management. Turn time into a valauble ally to accomplish what we want to do and chart continuous improvement in the way we do it. Francesco Cirillo created the [...] Productivity Tip : Sany Eneloop AA and AAA Batteries and Charger. This thing is amazing. I Love the eneloop brand. Their batteries charge more fully, stay charged longer with energy, and are just much better than duracel. I just keep using the small stash of AAA and AA eneloop batteries over and over again [...] CoolPreviews from CoolIris is an AWESOME addon! I was going to blog about this! Solves a lot of multiple-tab and “read later” problems, but I think it would be more awesome if the “save to stack” feature had a way of saving permanently (even upon browser restart. right now it wipes every browser restart, which [...] My raw notes from watching Rick Steves @ Google Authors. I suggest you check out the clip. Interesting tips and quite humorous and amusing with a few wise messages on quality travel, something I like to think I’ve done a bit of. Notes on travel. Accept that you’re part of the scene (even as a [...] The Ways I work. One of the ways I’ve noticed I do things is by deciding to do something else and then randomly changing it AND scheduling something ahead of time. This is complex, but it amazingly works. First off, I was plagued by scheduling things on a calendar and then 90% of the time [...]
Install the Walloping Shift If you feel stuck trying to eliminate some object, some habit, some clutter, try this strategic walloping shift. Most people focus on how much they dislike something to do away with it; they erroneously think this is a winning strategy to eliminate something. Indeed, this creates a repulsion and [...] [audio: http://validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110916_coachconsultantteacher.mp3] Time:03:47 Edify on the Go! A coach is often erroneously misconstrued1 as a consultant and/or teacher/mentor. Your average consultant is printing out graph charts and presenting research data. The average teacher is shoving in and ideally delivering knowledge to the students’ minds (a fairly noble task,indeed). Now think of someone helping you [...] Introduction “For just at that moment the light came over the hill, and there was a mighty twitter in the branches. William never spoke for he stood turned to stone as he stooped; and Bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him1.” That is an excerpt from possible the greatest fantasy [...] [audio: http://validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110906_beckham.mp3] Edify on the go! Time: I’m planning to read a bit more on Beckham as someone who, for lack of better words, has “wired himself efficiently”. He has healthy habits and I admire his polished style and his OCD organization and he’s ONE good looking man and he plays soccer; Beckham is [...] [audio: http://www.validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110816_wholisticdoctor.mp3] Edify on the go! The aim and fulfilment of discovering name, identity, and home is a journey only done by the heroic. I identify myself as a preventive wholistic doctor (some people would call me a productivity coach, however, and, indeed, I am a Certified Professional Coach). Back to the preventic wholistic [...] Less options is better with Some things. Having less options is better and increases productivity in many ways. Just having that “one” outlet partitions off your focus so it goes to that area increasing channeled improvement. For awhile I had multiple computer systems. It was a headache whenever I needed to tweak, edit, or do [...] Copyright 2010, Validate Your Life & John Thomas “Kooz” Kuczmarski. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or any means without written permission from the author. This is an excerpt from the upcoming NLP Book offered from Validate Your Life. Value Clarification. IMPORTANT: This post and this Supreme [...] I CERTAINLY do have a thing with “pleasures”. I only herald sophisticated pleasures but I don’t even call them nor think of them as pleasures, because they aren’t; they’re evolutions. Strands of evolutions. Photo-reading great books is an evolution. Playing, appreciating, and listening to classical music is an evolution. Gaming is an evolution. Coding in [...] Recipe for Trust: Take consistency. Then stir in love and mix in value. Add zeal for flavor. (Note: Kittens help with this recipe!) – John Thomas “Kooz” Trust and consistency are inter-related. They both imply reliable re-occurrence or repetition of behavior, qualities, characteristics, or events. A street sight displays consistency, but not trust. When, after [...] In 2002, I wrote a novella called Hope-Rising (will add the link to pdf in a jiffy). Since then I’ve realized I don’t like hope. I like trust. Hope triggers all kinds of uncertainties. It places you out of control. If you trust something will happen, it’s more likely to occur. This is far [...] In mechanical physics there exist scalar and vector quantities. A scalar quantity is something like temperature, mass, length, time, density or the speed on a straight train track. The scalar temperature quantity can only increase or decrease, high or low temperature. The speed on a train track, assuming the track is a one-way straight line, [...]
I love logic. I won’t ramble on about how much I love logic (there will likely be future posts on this), but I love logic. In logic, mathematicians love contradictions because when a contradiction arises it means something doesn’t work, something must be tweaked and made “correct” and thus contradiction produces a [...]
I just had a coaching session as part of my certification. I didn’t mind the client; he was really upbeat and had a decent structure. Strangely, the few times where there were telecommunicatio ndiffucltes and he couldnt’ understand a word I was saying or I couldn’t understand a few words he was [...] A fellow coach posted a series of question on taking action. I’ll list the question and then what I think each question accomplishes under each quesiton -What’s the first step you need to take? -What would someone, who is fearless, do about this? -What needs to happen now? -What would it make sense to do [...] Just partook on a great class discussion on judgment versus respect. In addition to the class leader being a great facilitator, I’ve written a book on emotional validation and validity (and invalidity), and judgment and respect is a huge part of that, so I naturally had a lot of ideas resulting from the concept [...]
I’ve given Goal-Setting a lot of thought….and experience…..and saw it lead to a lot of failures…and occasional successes….but ultimately I’ve learned tha goal-setting is a fail agenda and a behavior that denigrates clarity and induces self-doubt all while unnecessarily increasing otherwise-avoidable stress. Some of these may sound like [...] Life — I dislike the word life. It doesn’t exist. “Life” is an over-inflated amalgam of accomplishments, time, desires, goals frequently utilized and inflated to grotesque proportions by self-help books. There is no “life”. There’s evolution; there’s cellular growth; there’s time. I prefer to look at what I have is just time. I don’t have [...] |
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