OK, so I just got tagged by Thea of Life Wealth (from beautiful Australia). The object of this particular tagging scheme is to get every tagged person to share "the top 5 to 10 goals that you gotta' get so that you can truly say you have achieved your wildest dreams in life."
This one is tough - I pretty much want to do just about every interesting thing I hear about so I'm spoiled for choice, I suppose. For the past few days, I've been avoiding doing any posting here until I came to a list that felt right for me.
So, here are four goals from me:
- I will be part of an organization or effort that inspires and enables
thousands 100,000 people per year to develop a passion for learning, helps them improve their skills, become happy, contribute meaningfully to the world, and achieve their personal goals.
- I will go back to school and get an advanced degree. The first time around, I didn't know how much fun learning could be - next time, I will.
- I will achieve financial freedom. I'll use this freedom to spend lots of time with my family, ensure that my children had whatever education they desire, spend time improving the state of primary education in the world, travel to interesting places with my wife, and build a nice cabin on a mountain.
- I will have a family that is healthy, happy, and knows that I love them no matter what. In particular, I will raise children that understand responsibility, respect others, have strong faith, practice good values, and have a strong sense of self worth.
I think that's enough for me.
Now, on to the tagging - I get to tag five people:
- EM Sky at Mind Unbound
- Mike St. Pierre at The Daily Saint
- David Zinger from David Zinger on Employee Engagement
- Ariane Benefit of Neat Living
- Greg Balanko-Dickson at The Remote Control CEO
Even if they don't pick up the tag or don't notice I've tagged them, you should go read what they have to say. It's high quality stuff.
Read MoreI recently discovered a free app called NetJaxer that provides an easy "home base" for all your Web 2.0 / Ajax apps. I've been slowly (but surely) taking on more web-based apps for collaboration, productivity, and fun, and NetJaxer makes it easy for me to use them.
One launchpad
NetJaxer provides one place to go and organizes my web-based apps into a launchpad kind of view (see my screen shot - click to zoom). Within this view, it can store thumbnail views of your web-based apps to make it easier to find what you're looking for.
NetJaxer also provides an icon in the system tray to make it easier to launch my apps. This feature, in particular, is making my web-based document sharing a bit easier to manage (I'm doing quite a bit with Google Documents these days).
Suggestions and ratings
Another thing that is very cool about NetJaxer is that it provides a dynamic kind of "directory" of Ajax apps, complete with categorization and user ratings. I've found some very cool new tools this way. Check it out!
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Michael S. Hyatt says that some people question whether his blogging is a good use of his time. After all, he's the CEO of a huge publishing company and he blogs on a corporate blog every day. He doesn't think it's a waste of time (maybe it's just me, but it seems kinda natural for the head of a publishing company to publish every day...). Anyway, I love his treatment of this topic - give it a read and see if you do, too.
So - I applied the question to myself: "Is blogging a waste of time?" Like anything in life, I think some people get a lot out of blogging, and others don't see how anyone could enjoy it. When I started blogging, I never thought I'd still be blogging 2 years later but here I am. My first post was about "Finding your voice" and was inspired by Stephen Covey's book "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness."
I don't know what I was expecting to get out of blogging. It started as an outlet for my creative energy and a place to direct some of the thoughts I have as an introvert who thinks a lot but doesn't say all that much.
It ended up connecting me to some Great people all over the world that I wouldn't have otherwise met - and some of them you have become true friends. A waste of time? No way.
Read MoreI found an incredible video of some magic on RJ's site. It is amazing - I have no idea how it's done, do you?
Check out the video he posted here.
Read MoreIn the Joyful Jubilant Learning forum at the end of January, folks started sharing five things they learned in January. Sounded like a fun idea (and I like that it isn't a "go tag 5 more people" kind of thing) so here is my list:
I learned that Google Documents are a much better remote collaboration tool than things I've tried in the past (like Writeboard, for example).- I learned that version 2 of RocketPost is a big improvement over version 1, and I'm glad I bought RocketPost as a blogging tool.
- I learned that ice and snow really throw my city for a loop.
- I learned that the American Red Cross has implemented a new "Double Red Cell" donation option through which you can donate 2 units of red cells at the same time.
- I learned that giving 2 units of red blood cells on Thursday, then going cross-country skiing on Saturday is a recipe for a tiring day in the snow.
Learn anything you want to share? Blog it and link back to the Joyful Jubilant Learning post on "Rapid Fire Learning".
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