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    Archive for 2009/05


    What you really want to be doing…

    a clever mix Originally uploaded by st_photos Thought to ponder for the day: When you say, “I don’t have time”, you are really saying, “I don’t want to do it right now”. Besides the obviousness of it all, the subtle difference is that racing around complaining “I don’t have enough time” means that someone or [...]

    Is it time to shake up the CA Gov?

    california Originally uploaded by celine nadeau Talking with my dad yesterday, after our Sunday morning yoga class, I started thinking about the other paradigm that needs significant shifting in our emerging economy: government and participation. Perhaps Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat is getting under my fingernails (I’m on CD #8 out of 22) but [...]

    I’d like to be Bill’s friend

    How do we love all children of all species for all time? This was on of the early slides in William McDonough‘s talk, author of Cradle to Cradle, at UC Santa Barbara last evening. (Yes, I got to go!) While it was a very similar talk to the one I heard (and posted on in [...]

    The beach, close up

    double eye Originally uploaded by st_photos Large bodies of water make this Scorpio happy. After living by the Pacific Ocean for years and years, you’d think I’d have all kinds of photos. Not the case. Maybe because I wasn’t all macro-styled out like now with the Nikon 5700. Since so many of my images now [...]

    Teaching by Yogurt

    Yogurt freak Originally uploaded by Dan4th I presented the suite of office org strategies to the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors today: Zapping, Organizing by Zones and Frontloading… with some systems creation thrown in for a full overview. We started out with the life cycle of a container of yogurt guided skit. Brilliant little metaphor [...]

    Big steps with confidence!

    Happy Happy Cookie Originally uploaded by CarbonNYC Asking for help can seem to go against the grain. Our little egos (all right, call it like it is and use the proper pronoun!) MY little ego says, “You can do that! Look how far you’ve already come on your own!” The frugal part of me says, [...]

    Making the Most of Your Week with Planning & Review

    This article was originally published in The Simplifier #4.1. — Making the Most of Your Week with Planning & Review by Shawn Tuttle "I’ve watched enough Discovery channel – it’s my turn!" That’s the last thing you remember thinking before being pushed out of a plane over the Amazon jungle with a parachute strapped to [...]


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