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If you have a job or are pursuing a certain career primarily because you think you should, or because others think you should, you are making a huge mistake. You need to understand that if you keep doing this, you are never going to be truly happy. You need to be living the life and having the career that makes you happy. The voices that you hear inside yourself, which tell you to pursue a certain profession or be a certain thing, are often not your own voice. They are the voices of your parents; they are the voices of your peers in school; they are the voices of the people you associate with at work.
Why do you do what you do? Easy question but sometimes you may not like the answer.
The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time period.
The number of Americans owning at least one of these digital reading devices jumped from 18% in December to 29% in January.
Faithful followers are aware this author abandoned his Read a Book a Week project sometime in 2011. Workload got very busy so I ultimately had to trade non-work reading time for revenue. Not a bad trade-off but I still miss my recreational reading time.
I’ve owned a Kindle for over a year now and received a smart phone this past Christmas. I can now access my Kindle books on my phone. We’ll see if this helps me read more books this year.
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The answer is yes and they do it by building resilience. University of North Carolina professor Barbara Fredrickson has spent the past two decades looking into why we have positive emotions and what we do with them. She even has her own term for her work: positivity.
via Do positive emotions increase life satisfaction?.
As a general rule try to avoid overly negative people.
This idea that more effort equals better outcomes or better quality seems to be inherent in us humans.
via DIY investing and the IKEA effect | Abnormal Returns.
Kind of a spin on the old saying of “work smarter, not harder”.
BTW the “IKEA effect” doesn’t exist in Oklahoma because the closest IKEA is 200 miles away in Dallas.
We’re going to see a lot of these “what to do in the New Year” health tips columns. We hope more of them are more evidence-based than this one was. And we hope that journalists don’t act on these news tips without doing their own homework on the state of the evidence.
via Cleveland Clinic’s “Top Tests for 2012” Clash With Many Guidelines – MedPage Today Blogs – 30297.
Check your facts.
The thing is, we still live in a world that’s filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity — we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them. To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing.
Without the network, you don’t get new ideas into your organization, you don’t see trends and issues that affect you and your customers, you don’t grow and develop your people with new challenges and opportunities, you aren’t attractive for young talent, you don’t learn about new technologies or business models, you don’t create new markets and you risk deluding yourself with your own ideas. You don’t increase your own value and advance your own career. Without the network you stagnate, you become stale. With the network you grow, provide meaningful and valuable solutions to your customers and not just survive, but thrive.
via Networking for Survival – Deborah Mills-Scofield – Harvard Business Review.
Great post and well worth reading. One comment caught my eye,
When new forms of communication emerge, don’t just look at how to improve what you’re doing already, but at new ways of doing.
I immediately thought of social media as a new way of doing. My transition from a dumb phone to a smartphone is a new way of doing (for me). One of my new projects for the New Year is to create a Google+ business page. Is this an “improvement”? Not really. It’s just a new way of doing.
Google’s Andy Rubin: Over 700,000 Android devices activated daily – latimes.com.
Android-powered devices are the No.1 target for cyber crooks in the mobile phone arena. Popular bill-paying methods and apps on smartphones are expected to be major targets.
via Smartphones offer easy access to malware purveyors | Herald Sun.
OK. I’ll admit to writing somewhat smugly about not owning or using a smartphone in a post two weeks ago. I’m glad I didn’t make a comment about never owning or using a smartphone because I am now one of the 700,000 Androids that get activated daily.
Resistance is futile. But you still have to be smart about how you use your smartphone. See the second link above.
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