Genuine Curiosity

Author Dwayne Melancon is always on the lookout for new things to learn. An ecclectic collection of postings on personal productivity, travel, good books, gadgets, leadership & management, and many other things.

 

Burned out minds yield burned out results

In one of my periodic sweeps to catch up on my Bloglines subscriptions, I stopped by Phil Gerbyshak’s “Make it Great!” blog today, and found a very insightful article on recharging your batteries.  As I’ve written in the past, I’m one of those who really needs my “recharge time.”

Phil breaks this down into a formul of the “4 R’s.”  They are:  Rest, Reflect, Read, and Relax.  These certainly resonate with me, and I realized that I’ve not taken enough time to Rest and Relax lately.  I’ve been doing plenty of Reflecting and Reading, but just haven’t been making as many “a-ha” connections I usually do.

In other words, I’ve been working hard this week, but haven’t been getting the full benefit of that work because my batteries were a bit run down.  This evening I feel more energized and creative.

Skates_1After reading Phil’s post, I realize I'm reaping the benefits of spending all afternoon ice skating with two of my kids (the third went to Build-A-Bear with my wife).

So, check out what Phil has to say.  And don’t forget to use all 4 of the R’s.

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Danger Quicksand is now on Amazon.com!

Arrow_sign_lIf you bounced here from my old site - search for the topic you were looking for to the left.

Hello, and welcome to my blog's new home.  If you arrived here via a link from another site or a Google search, you can still find your article by using the Google search box on the left hand side of this page (assuming you're using your browser and not an RSS reader.

I've moved over to TypePad, and the address is http://genuinecuriosity.typepad.com

Meanwhile, here's a checklist to get you up-to-date on my new address:

  • Update your RSS reader to find the new feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/genuinecuriosity (autodiscover will find this if you just point your reader at the main pageand if you were already using my feedburner feed, you're fine).
  • Update any bookmarks to reflect the new address.
  • If you are a fellow blogger and have been kind enough to include me in your blogroll or link list, please update the address to point at my new address.

Thanks for your understanding about this migration.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to migrate comments and trackbacks from the old site to the new. 

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Airline troubles and pricing insanity

In a few weeks, I'll be speaking at a conference in Toronto.  Several weeks ago, my assistant made all the flight and hotel arrangements.  Ticketing

Today, she told me our travel agent accidentally canceled the trip, so she asked them to re-book asap so we can still get 21-day advance pricing.  The flight we booked today cost half the price we paid for the ticket booked several weeks ago.

In light of all the airline bankruptcies and rising fuel prices, this makes no rational sense to me (not to mention I thought you were supposed to be rewarded for booking early - not penalized).

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New address is working

Well, it took much longer than it was supposed to, but my new address is working here - you can now find me at genuinecuriosity.typepad.com - whew!

If you like it here, pass it around to others you think may enjoy this site - and thank you.

Sincerely,
Dwayne

P.S. Any old bookmarks or links to any of the genuinecuriosity.typepad.com address will still work. Oh - and I just realized that the Google search bar on my page will not show the correct results until they crawl my site again, since the URL is changed in there, as well. 

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