Category Archives: Personal Development

You Can Do It

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Bruce Keener

If today’s economy and fast-pace are causing you to feel defeated, you need to think about this tweet from billionaire Mark Cuban: Mark didn’t make his book by selling books filled with New Age mantras on how to get rich. … Continue reading →

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Making a Big Change with Baby Steps

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Bruce Keener

In a recent post, I talked about spending just five minutes on part of a dreaded activity as a way of ultimately getting the activity done. I decided to try a small change to help me break an addiction to … Continue reading →

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Brain Linkz

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Bruce Keener

An excellent list of Why Intelligent People Fail. Hat tip: Matt Mullenweg. Great, practical discussion of How To Focus. The author asserts that our problem is not so much in managing information, but in managing our attention. I agree wholeheartedly. … Continue reading →

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Techies, Passion, and Knowing What You Want

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I enjoyed reading Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness. It’s an informative and entertaining look at how Tony built Zappos.com and sold it to Amazon for an amazing 1.2 Billion Dollars. After reading through the book, I tried to analyze what it … Continue reading →

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Life as a Challenge

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Bruce Keener

In his book The Skinny on Willpower, Jim Randell mentions that his neighbor Paul Newman said the following near the end of his life: Nothing in life ever came easy to me. Huh? Nothing came easy to Paul Newman? He … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Wasted Attention and “Being Always On”

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

You may have read my most recent article and thought to yourself “Keener is an old man that just can’t keep up with today’s pace of information flow.” Yes, I am an old man by some standards, but I can … Continue reading →

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30-Day Challenges

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Matt Cutts of Google has participated in several challenges, in which he performs (or stops performing) an activity for 30 days. His most recent challenge is to not use Twitter for 30 days. Another example was his riding a bicycle … Continue reading →

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Even More Questions to Help You Mold Your Future

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Bruce Keener

This is a follow-on to my previous article that provided a list of questions to help you conduct a GTD 50,000 foot review. In this post, I provide links to other articles that have good questions for you to answer … Continue reading →

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Understanding Your Big Picture and Living It

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Bruce Keener

My interest in sharing time management techniques and principles began several years ago with my writing of The Big Picture. This article described my search for meaning after my wife died, and I wrote it to emphasize that life is … Continue reading →

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Seth’s Free e-book: What Matters Now

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Bruce Keener

Seth Godin has put together an e-book with one-page insights from over 70 thinkers and doers. And to top it off, he has made it free and has encouraged fellow bloggers to make it available for free download. So, gladly, … Continue reading →

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