Who Else Wants a Double Duty, Double Dipping Job?

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Want to get paid to create? If you start double dipping, you can do just that. What is double dipping?

Temporary Insanity: 10 Lessons Learned from NanoWriMo

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In less than three weeks, over 200,000 people will allow themselves to go a little crazy for a month. They will gnash their teeth, smash their heads, and possibly destroy their livers. What can we learn from them?

16 Easy Ways to Increase Focus

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Focus is as elusive as a ghost and slippery as a sturgeon, here one minute and gone the next. We all want to be focused on whatever we’re working on, but emails, cell phones, and the repo man all beg for our attention like neglected children.

This post details sixteen ways to increase focus, attention, and mindfulness.

The Secret of Creative Inspiration

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Why do some people have all the good ideas? Are they born with a superior brain? Do they have a muse on a leash? Are they just darn lucky?

The answer is shockingly simple. Find out more…

The Power of Naming Things

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When you start a project, what do you call it? Imagine you’re just getting started with a new creative work. If it’s a book, do you say “this story I’m doing about guilt, fear, and cakes,’ or is it “The Ministry of Fear?” If a painting, do you say ‘this thing  with a bearded guy [...]

14 More Ways to Increase Creativity and Generate Clever Ideas

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The last post was fun to write, so without further ado about nothing, let’s continue the list. Here we go with 14 more ways to generate ideas, increase creativity, cure cancer, end all wars…you get the idea. 17. Travel Travel will give your brain a chance to go wild. New places, sights, smells, gravitational pulls, [...]

16 Ways to Increase Creativity and Generate Clever Ideas

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We’re all looking for ways to increase creativity, but sometimes it isn’t easy. No matter what kind of work you do, sometimes you run into a wall; the ideas dry up and you feel anything but creative. It happens to everyone. Don’t worry. You’re not alone. You need a break. You need a strategy. You need a [...]

How to Relearn Your Old Musical Instrument

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Got an old trumpet or guitar collecting dust? Do you want to learn to play the piano all over again? Maybe  you used to play way back when. What happened? Did you put it away and forget about it? Did ‘life’ get in the way? If so, why? Playing solo just for the sheer hell [...]

15 Things I Love About Not Driving

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When the wife and I moved to Korea, we left a lot behind behind: our family and friends, a big apartment, the comfort of the familiar, and the very icons of our Americanity: our cars. We both drove late model gas sippers. We didn’t have a choice. In our town, like most other cities in [...]

Better Packing Part 2 -How to Pack Light, Pack Less

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Let’s lose some weight! When you’re on the road, a lighter pack can give you more freedom to explore, reduce achy shoulders and feet, and make you an all-around cleverer and sexier traveler. Part 2 of Better Packing, Better Travel explores the benefits of a lighter pack and gives you some tips for dropping those pesky unwanted pounds.

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