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I’ve got a long list to get through…

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Hi, I hope my blog will also be included in this “great personal finance resources” in the future.

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I really agree to the procrastination part…I think most people fail because of this.

Nice Info!

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Great review. I believe I will pick up the book soon.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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Enjoyed the article. To respond to the first comment from Sara, I think you missed the point of the article. The point is that exercise programs need to be more customized to you and not so generic along with changes in routines to keep your body from adapting.

Your best bet is to find someone who knows what they are doing (most people don’t) and have them help you create an exercise plan.

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I would add 5pm (www.5pmweb.com) to the list of alternatives.

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This is a great and helpful article. I don’t know about anyone else, but I do know that I tend to over-analyse everything that comes to my mind. It’s effected past relationships, and I found the man of my dreams and I need to change. For me, for him, and for the both of us. I noticed I come up with worst case-scenarios while in these over-thought processes. I need to make my life easier by stopping my over-thinking.

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My belief is that through reflection, we can change our personal story in a way that completely eliminates stress. For example, Dustin, you discussed the concept of “external demands” being a cause of stress What if we started looking at these demands as “service requests” instead of “external demands”. The word “service” has a sense of aspiration and is more accurate in describing how we give to the world. The word “request” gives the person being requested the power to say yes, no, or negotiate. Now, we have some service requests which we are more inclined to say yes to. (ex: requests from Supervisor) However, no matter who asks us for our service, we always have the ability to say no, or negotiate. By changing our language, we can shift our perspective and shift the trajectory of our life.

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Check out Stanford University’s ECorner (http://ecorner.stanford.edu) with links to podcasts and clips from the top entrepreneurs of our time. Great advice and a lot of really interesting stories.

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I like your idea of situational redundancy. If you’re an avid cook, like myself, you use this type of planning all of the time.

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is it just me who found Justin’s post amusingly truncated:

http://lifehacker.com/398229/f…..ckup-tools

I’m not sure I’d trust something described as “f…..ckup-tools” for my backups… [gdr]

-gumnos

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I use a few addons with firefox. One to download websites in PDF form so that I can read them later on my Portable PDF Reader. The plugin is called PDFIt. And another plugin to download youtube videos.

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Nice list! I RSS’d some of those blogs and saved some more on Delicious (as well as this page).

Thanks again!

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Thanks, that’s a great post!

I use a nice web app specifically designed for tracking goals progress and todo list, and time tracking, etc, it is called GoalsOnTrack.com. It’s also free at http://www.goalsontrack.com.

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I find that keeping my text-file todo list in a distributed version-control (VCS) package such as Mercurial(hg), Bazaar(bzr), or Git at least allows me to “smartly” sync my todo list between multiple PCs at home, my web-space, and my machines at work. It’s also nice for seeing what’s been marked Done and deleted because I have a full history of everything in the VCS.

A non-distributed VCS would work fairly well if you want to entrust your data to a centralized (and well-backed-up) repository, say on a server-space somewhere. However, with a DVCS, even if you use it as a centralized VCS, if your central repository dies, you still have your full revision history on all the other machines.

-gumnos

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Great list! Thanks for sharing! I have been on my own for a while but I always enjoy finding great new sites with fresh ideas.

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I like the concept of Redundancy. I have worked in the Medical Billing Industry and about 5 years ago I knew of a doctor that last all of her patients data because she thought she had backed it up. Since then I have come to Understand the imporance of baking up on CD, online, and using back up servers. If my computer does crash all I need to do is setup a new computer and access the back up or login to my online backup servers.

Great Article. I learned a lot about computers from this website:
http://www.videotrainingpro.com/

Jackie

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Hi Thursday,

What a great list! I’ll defininately bookmark it in a moment. Just wanted to take a moment to both thank you for mentioning QuickenOnline.com, and point out that it is not a desktop Quicken replacement. It is a basic personal finance service, geared toward getting the most out of your money, helping those living paycheck to paycheck (currently 70% of Americans), and giving users a forward-looking view of their finances.

Happy New Year!
- Chelsea, Quicken Online

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Oh and one more thing I read somewhere…they said the average Salesforce.com monthly bill is somewhere above $100/mo, because most people need a few of the extensions for daily activities. Keep that in mind.

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I think the author did a fantastic job comparing very similar solutions. I’ve played with the demos of 5 of those and I really love the power of Salesforce and SugarCRM. Salesforce integrates very well with everything but if you want to add features, you’re going to tack on more money to your monthly bill. All the extensions and plugins cost extra too. SugarCRM works great–very similar to SF, but I really love the Open Source idea, it brings a whole different motivation to the developers and 3rd parties. SugarCRM can be hosted on your webpage very easily, could be setup within minutes by any tech savvy person, or your developer could set it up in minutes too. I run mine on my webserver and it works great. I pay $9.99/mo through my webserver and I host multiple sites, multiple emails, AND my SugarCRM flawlessly in one place. I vote SugarCRM because it can do a lot of what the others do, plus more.

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Great post, good list. I find many of the smaller entrepreneur blogs quite helpful.

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Hi

Excellent article. Possibly my favourite in the series.

I experience what you say, both as an employee and noticing other employees. I work a 3-day week and for most people that is unspeakable. It is “not acceptable”; it is “not working” it is “wrong”.

There is such an ingrained belief around what and how work should be. We are raised to believe that we “should work”. And, furthermore, we “should work hard”. It amazes me sometimes. I wrote a blog post on this at some stage.

I have experienced being too tired from work to have any “outside” life. Now I’ve changed that, but I see others struggling with the same problem.

When I worked as a holistic therapist, I saw so many people who want more from their lives, wanted creativity, but simply couldn’t get out of the traps of the corporate world.

Juliet

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Hi, that’s a great list with some really useful stuff. But how about a Book List? Books I’d recommend to entrepreneurs would be:

- The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael E. Gerber
- How to Become a Rainmaker, by Jeffrey J. Fox
- Purple Cow, by Seth Godin
- Making Things Happen, by Scott Berkun
- Getting Thinks Done, by David Allen
- Slide: ology, by Nancy Duarte
- Now Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham
- Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi

A more extensive list could be found on my blog, where I also write about entrepreneurship and personal development.

“Have more time and more money to do what you love…” is something I once read and though to be a very good quote.

Wish you all a good day and thanks again for the good work.
Mike

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I use Google Docs all the time. It’s cheap (free). :)

Great list thanks.

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Nice list, will check these out when I get the time.

– lee

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