Word count: 221 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute If I hadn’t earned a degree in political science when I went to university, I would have chosen to study psychology. The subject fascinates me — as it should any writer or entrepreneur. If you want to write effectively, you […]
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Word count: 390 words Reading time: About 1.5 minutes You may remember me having written about using the pomodoro. This fantastic time management technique, which requires you to focus your attention on a task for 25 minutes, calls for having a noisy timer ticking in the background. When I started
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Word count: 300 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute I don’t know about you but I cannot write when I have a messy desk. Even if I take all my papers — without any sorting at all — and dump them into my inbox so the rest of my
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Word count: 471 words Reading time: About 1.5 minutes For most of my life, I was a night owl. I HATED going to bed and would force myself there at 1 or 2 am and perhaps take an hour to fall asleep. The next day, of course, I had a
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Word count: 192 words Reading time: Less than a minute When it comes to dangerous jobs, writing hardly ranks ups there with logging, fishing and roofing. But appearances to the contrary, it has significant physical drawbacks. Think of hunched over shoulders, aching wrists and the danger of sitting. That’s why
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Word count: 317 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute My Kindle died last week. Inconveniently, this occurred while I was out of town, on holiday and, thus, in read-like-a-maniac mode. (I usually try to finish a book a day while on holiday although am sometimes slowed down when I attack a
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Word count: 162 words Reading time: about half a minute Some readers have had a hard time figuring out how to post comments to my blog. Here’s how you can get smart about the whole thing. (Apologies to Don Adams who played Maxwell Smart on the show.) 1. Once you’re
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