The two rules of procrastination: 1) Do it today. 2) Tomorrow will be today tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
I am, have been and will probably continue to be to some extent a procrastinator for the rest of my life. I have improved a lot but I’d be the first to admit that when my will is tested, where procrastination is concerned, my body is often found wanting. What does this mean though in the grand scheme of things? Well for me when I find myself procrastinating that realisation is itself a reminder that my mind is constantly keeping track of the work to be done in it’s own haphazard way. Thankfully, my mind has not give up on me just yet, and still lives in quiet hope that I’ll change my procrastinating ways. Read more »

I’ve been using Evernote extensively now for the last 3 months, not sure what Evernote is check out my Evernote Review or my guide to Goal tracking with Evernote I have found it a great tool to keep my blogging and work notes together. Here’s a practical run through of the way I integrate using Evernote into my daily work, what I use it for and a tip or two from having bumped my head before..

There are a few main categories of stuff that I capture using Evernote:

Post Ideas are easily captured using Evernote, due to the many mobile capture methods
Post Outlines can easily be worked out using Evernote for easy capture and the ease of organizing using Evernote
Offline posts can be written offline and easily saved using Evernote this is an excellent way to safeguard against technical failures which could devour your carefully chosen words.
Posts which I’ve read and would like to keep as reference material for future projects are easily stored and indexed using Evernote
Screen shots are a dream to work with using Evernote, Evernote treats notes like any other note due to the great OCR implementation
HTML code which I use for formatting my blogs and postsare easily kept safe and accessible from any location using Evernote
Offline Comments, I’m constantly using Evernote to capture comments offline when I’m reading my RSS feeds offline.

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It’s a tricky business. You can think you’ve pulled all the weeds of in-authenticity and the next thing you know, you’re realizing you’re doing something for the sake of “growth” that doesn’t really matter. The prolificacy of fake growth often hides in hard-to-find corners of your mind. It often arrives in unassuming forms.

Jonathan Mead – The Number One Self-Development Mistake, And The Fake Growth Addict
In the realm of Personal Development, Real growth is the key indicator of success or failure. So what defines real growth or false growth? Much of the information and programmes in Personal Development available are at best insincere and at worst scams. The belief that your problems can be fixed from the outside in, that your goals can somehow be found in between the covers of  the latest glossy Personal Development book is the myth. Personal Development is well, personal. The Personal Development industry can only help accelerate real growth, it can’t start it.

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For many the state of the economy has become a drain on the resources. We’ve had to become more aware of how we spend our money. We haven’t however become any more vigilant about how we spend our more valuable resource time. Self development costs nothing. Free time is at a premium. We all have finite time on the planet and should be using it to the  max. Once you’ve realised this your time is filled with opportunity. Every day becomes an opportunity for self development. Opportunity to find and add more value to your life. If you’re sitting with too much free time, you have a problem. You haven’t realised the urgency of your self development . You haven’t realised that real growth can’t really wait for the tomorrow you hope you have.

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Disclaimer

Please note I wrote this post last week before going off on my trip and started editing it this morning and realized it’s kind of impossible without changing the tone of the whole post so this post is kind of a time travel into last week with me.

So I’m hitting the road, and leaving my blog unattended for a few days, its been a long time coming but I’m really looking forward to this get away for more reasons than I care to share with you. The trip should be 229kms or 114 miles. After making my way through rush hour Johannesburg  traffic I whip past due east of our countries capital, Pretoria , I’ll hit the country roads which the nice people on the internet promise me has stunning scenery, who can argue with alliteration like that. Read more »

My collection of favourites this week go back further than a week in many cases mainly because I’ve been dealing with some Personal matters that required my attention and as a result am still catching up on my reading.

A look through this weeks posts and I’m looking at rubber meets the road issues. We must spend more of our time on the processes and doing. Only when we press forward in the daily matters of our life will we start to find that our lives begins to matter. Read more »