A bird's song and Timothy Dexter

 Is the whole “New Year New You” newsletter construct over yet? I waited until it died down to get in touch as I am not a big believer in New Year’s Resolutions. I’m a dedicated follower of the Kaizen school of thought, where improvement, even m...

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Jan 13, 2022
just what are you referencing?

 There's a concept in woodworking that I realized has similar applications in business. It's the difference between referencing and measuring, In woodworking, a reference is almost always better than a measurement. For example, let's s...

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Dec 04, 2021
is the student ready?

 We encounter a lot of teachable moments in our day, but not every teachable moment is a moment to teach. Here's a good example. The other night I was working an ambulance shift, and we had a call at three in the morning. A 17-year-old kid...

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Nov 04, 2021
down and outage

 My entire Facebook feed late on Monday was filled with “ So what did you do when Facebook went down? Initially, I was like, Mark must have done this on purpose. The news of the outage and not the 60 minutes interview was EVERYWHERE. But I mean...

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Oct 08, 2021
kind of over my head

 Yup, that’s me. In my basement. After Hurricane Ida blew through NJ. I sure hope you all kept safe and that disaster averted you and your families. So, it’s not the first time my basement has flooded, but it will be the last.It’s a perfect exam...

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Sep 09, 2021
how's that manifesting going?

 If I hear, see, or read the word manifestation one more time, I'm going to explode. It's not a new concept. It's just a new word. Well, I mean it's not a new word, it's just someone somewhere hit upon the Abraham Hicks lectures on YouTube and T...

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Aug 06, 2021
its not the heat

 Oh, cliches. How we love them.But that doesn't mean they are not worth repeating, (except the humidity one, we know we know). Maybe some nugget of wisdom you hear on a podcast, or read in a blog, didn't apply to you six months ago. Maybe you we...

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Jul 06, 2021
HELP WANTED

 For the 500th and final episode of the Less Doing Podcast, someone who pretty much invented the podcast interview will be interviewing me. Cool right? So if you’d like to have your question asked by this legend and answered by me, rep...

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Jun 03, 2021
may the 4th...

How many emails have you gotten with this subject line today? Let me know. I'm keeping a tally. It's the problem with the digital world. There is so much content produced these days, that it really is pretty darn impossible to say anything new. But,...

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May 04, 2021
OOPS. BAD LINK. all fixed. thx for pointing it out.

On Productivity - My latest, and maybe final work, is meant to be my Master's Thesis on Productivity. How to achieve it. How to sustain it. How to make it work for you instead of the other way around. Available now at a monolithic online bookseller n...

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Apr 07, 2021