Innovation keynote speaker http://www.jeremygutsche.com Jeremy Gutsche is
an innovation expert, futurist, trends expert, founder of TrendHunter.com and
"one of North America's most requested keynote speakers."
In this innovation keynote speech, Jeremy is speaking for
3,000 Meetings Professional International members sampling his:
strategy, marketing and innovation keynote speech, Exploiting Chaos.
(at least watch 10 mins!)
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
30 Blogs for Minimalist Living
These blogs, listed in no particular order, serve as an excellent primer for anyone needing to scale back. They cover a broad range of topics in order to showcase how minimalism can permeate almost any facet of life, though the contributions of resources not listed here should not go ignored, either.
Contrary to stereotype, it is entirely possible to stay on top of technology without rendering life entirely too complex. This couple doesn't go without, they just know how to cut back and use their time and money responsibly. Be sure to check out their excellent DIY tips as well!
Real Simple magazine presents several blogs on streamlining pretty much any area of life imaginable. From work to fashion to food, these ladies practically burst with valuable information, and the rest of the website contains even more practical tidbits! The periodical has certainly earned its reputation as a reliable resource for those wanting to simplify.
The exceptionally creative minds who contribute to Lifehacker always post up some excellent DIY projects. Big and small alike, they address a wide variety of different daily and not-so-daily problems with viable hacks. Here, a little bit of effort and exertion on the front end means less headaches on the back.
Wading through messes both physical and personal cause entirely too much unnecessary stress and chaos in life. Unclutterer suggests useful ways to clean up untidiness in the home and office (and home office) to cut back on anxiety, not to mention the physical hazards they present, too!
Leo Babuta's extremely popular blog applies Zen sensibilities to everyday anxieties, teaching readers how to relax without growing complacent. Nobody has to convert to the belief system to find inspiration and value in its teachings, of course, as it is one whose very structure works in harmony with most others.
After taking the Buy Nothing New pledge for a year, one woman realized that carefully monitoring her consumer habits sliced away at some of the most needless complications. So she stuck with it, sharing the satisfying life lessons she picks up along the way with readers curious about following in her footsteps.
One cannot charge headfirst into a simple existence. He or she must build towards it slowly, carefully deciding what goes and what stays. With resources like Becoming Minimalist, those seeking something less stressful have plenty of pointers to ease the transition.
One of miss minimalist's neatest features revolves around reader submissions, photos and suggestions regarding different streamlining or simplifying projects. Even beyond those, however, this fun and informative blog should sit on the bookmarks list of every aspiring minimalist in need of a little inspiration.
Simply Enough's postings mainly involve both minimalist living and health issues, which makes perfect sense. Caring for one's overall wellness by consuming nutritious food, exercising and popping into the doctor for regular checkups certainly leads to fewer complications and stresses to the body. Parents will especially appreciate Tabita Green's ruminations on healthy, simplistic child-rearing.
Everett Bogue literally wrote the book on minimalist business, touting self-employment as one of the most liberating experiences imaginable. Much of his blog revolves around simplifying the professional and financial facets rather than the personal, but some of the tidbits can still apply to many different areas.
Bloggers Warren and Betsy refer to themselves as "reforming type-A personalities," keeping an interesting read about the steps they are taking to become happy with their lives by simplifying pretty much everything. Both of them adore travel, and their mutual commitment to minimalism granted them enough resources to take a trip around the world.
With simple lists, 2 bloggers pull from their life experiences as a means of helping others find their own minimalist, streamlined paths. Topics range from the usual family, financial and work situations, though Google and SEO tips and tricks filter in along the way as well.
This personal development blog seems to pull inspiration from the self-help movement, proffering up easily-digestible articles for people looking for quick flashes of inspiration and assistance. Pretty much any facet of life that may need an overhaul ends up covered here.
Frugality and family are the name of the game here at Remodeling This Life, an excellent resource for parents who seriously need downsizing. Fans of DIY projects and home decor will also find plenty of reading material to pique their interest, too.
Learning to live frugally and make a dollar metaphorically stretch as far as possible certainly saves more than just precariously dangling bank accounts. With straightforward, no-nonsense advice, The Simple Dollar exists as a particular favorite for minimalist lifestyle bloggers. Beyond that, though, it provides a sobering glimpse into the complications that arise from irresponsible spending.
Tammy Strobel and Logan Smith at Rowdy Kittens use their corner of the internet to promote the minimalist lifestyle. Mostly emphasizing how people work, how people play and what they can do to keep both as simple, streamlined and stress-less as possible, the blog highlights how little one truly needs to find happiness in life.
For Colin Beavan, maintaining a simple, healthy and gratifying life meant sloughing off any non-essentials that negatively impacted the environment. Doing his part to keep the planet as safe and healthy as possible provided him with a heightened peace of mind and a minimalist existence.
Understanding advertising, the media and how they come to impact overconsumption and the glorification of goods is essential to maintaining a balanced and simple life. Postconsumers intelligently analyzes the psychology and sociology behind why people define themselves based on their possessions — and why such perspectives can be dangerous.
Fight the filth and kick clutter to the curb with Francois Joburg. She understands the value of a living or working space free of messes and dedicates her blog space to sharing knowledge with the world. Even beyond that, though, Joberg supplements her main theme with cool tidbits about clearing one's head and heart for valuable mental refreshment.
Aby Garvey's blog and website both emphasize strategies for cleaning and organizing one's personal spaces. Many believe that streamlined spaces feed into streamlined lives as a whole, so her advice will certainly be of use to those hoping to keep things simple.
Another well-respected blog by Leo Babauta, mnmlist reflects on consumer habits and how people become mentally imprisoned by their own stuff. Every once in a while, he slips in some postings on his computer usage and setup as well, which also happen to carry on his main thesis!
Individuals and families new to the minimalist mindset will find this blog incredibly relatable. Follow the ups, downs, triumphs and tragedies of the eponymous journeyman minimalist as she learns firsthand what it means to stay simple. Her journey definitely provides inspiration for those just starting to learn about what minimalism can do for them.
True to its name, Minimal is exceptionally sparse. Browse its archives for small quotes, gorgeous pictures of simple art and architecture, videos, information on computing and more. Those striving for simplicity may find plenty of inspiration in its postings, which prove that one can apply the philosophy's tenets to almost anything.
Learn some great lessons in sloughing off stuff with this fascinating peek into the lives of a family traipsing down a simple path. Entries cover topics as diverse as travel and education, illustrating the myriad facets of existence that could use a bit of streamlining.
Taking its name from a beloved folktale, Stone Soup looks at food through a minimalist's lens. With recipes, tips, anecdotes and much more, it makes for essential reading for anyone wanting a simple life with a satisfying kitchen.
Minimalism is more than just a lifestyle — it is also a highly popular design aesthetic as well. Artistic types seeking inspiration that perfectly channels their ideologies will marvel over some of the lush products featured here. Users are always welcome to submit anything particularly eye-catching that they discover.
This incredibly provocative, educational resource plays host to some of the best advice on minimalist living around. Many posts come peppered with visual aids to illustrate the whats and whys behind the various pointers, too. Definitely a must-bookmark blog.
Some people find the minimalist lifestyle appealing because of its comparatively friendlier relationship with green initiatives. Here, anyone with an eco-friendly conscience can stay updated on different products that cater to their interests and ideologies.
Everything the aspirant or expert minimalist needs to know about this blog can be found right there in the title. It seeks to help readers streamline their harried, stressful lives in any way possible, with plenty of positive encouragement along the way.
Life in a tiny house appeals to minimalists, most especially those with an ardent love for the environment. This blog stands as one of the best on the subject. Read up on what it has to say about designing, building and setting up a life in a satisfyingly small space.
Minimalism keeps life simple so people can focus on what they love. Learning how to manage clutter of the physical, emotional, financial and mental sort eases body and soul, reducing stress levels and freeing up energy for more happiness.
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An airspace 1st! High-tech flight path debuts in U.S. | GE Reports
An airspace 1st! High-tech flight path debuts in U.S. | GE Reports
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An airspace 1st! High-tech flight path debuts in U.S. (Aug '10)
Today’s American Airlines flight 1916 from Dallas/Fort Worth to Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport just landed in the aviation history books — and marked a new era in U.S. airspace modernization. Captain Brian Will flew the 737 using a high-tech, computerized flight path known as RNP — which stands for Required Navigation Performance technology. Put simply, RNP allows planes to follow highly precise, customized, gently curving paths that eliminate the inefficient straight-line flight segments — most noticeable in stair step landing approaches — that take longer to fly, burn more fuel, churn out more emissions and can add to air traffic congestion and delayed flights. What makes today’s flight historic is that it’s the first time a U.S. flight has used a publicly available, commercially designed RNP flight path. Prior to the path becoming a permanent fixture at Bradley, the FAA had designed all public RNP paths in the U.S. Now, with a third party — GE Aviation’s Naverus business — getting the green light to publish the path, the gateway is open for widespread adoption of the technology. As GE’s Steve Fulton says in the audio interview below, “Our vision is that there are going to be thousands of these procedures required as part of the transition underway in the United States.”
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Calculate your Solar Gain!!!!
In Mystic:
For this location and configuration, you will get about 4 kWhr/m2/day of energy from the sun.
The following is a breakdown of energy by month:
For this location and configuration, you will get about 4 kWhr/m2/day of energy from the sun.
The following is a breakdown of energy by month:
| Energy generated per month (in KWhr/m2) Average daily energy by month (in kWhr/m2/day) | 95.38 3.08 | 114.80 4.1 | 142.13 4.58 | 149.37 4.98 | 159.35 5.14 | 156.46 5.22 | 167.30 5.4 | 164.52 5.31 | 151.79 5.06 | 128.98 4.16 | 101.01 3.37 | 91.34 2.95 | ||||||||||||
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Friday, October 01, 2010
Gold on the moon!?
The question that many traders and investors are asking now is what type of asset bubble will this create? Just remember it did not take very long to create the housing and credit bubble in the early part of the decade when former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan helped inflate the markets. In 2001, gold was trading below $300 an ounce. Today it is trading at a new all time high at $1321.00 and ounce. As long as they continue with the same Keynesian policy gold should go to the moon.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
How To Be Patient!
How to be Patient
Learning to Stay Calm
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the
egg, not by smashing it open.
– Arnold Glasgow, American humorist
Learning to Stay Calm
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the
egg, not by smashing it open.
– Arnold Glasgow, American humorist
Here's the problem: You're waiting for someone to finish compiling a
report that you need for a meeting. Because of an issue that came up,
you're already 15 minutes late.
You can feel your body getting tense, and you're getting quite cross.
You start sweating, and suddenly you yell at the person for being slow
and putting you behind schedule. You can tell she's hurt, but you can't
help it. She's making you late!
Does this sound familiar?
Many of us are impatient at times. Losing control of our patience hurts
not only us, but those around us. Impatience raises our stress level
and can even cause physical harm to our bodies. Being impatient can
also damage relationships.
In this article, we'll examine strategies that you can use to be more
patient.
Why Practice Patience?
Others often see impatient people as arrogant, insensitive, and
impulsive. They can be viewed as poor decision makers, because they
make quick judgments or interrupt people. Some people will even avoid
impatient people, because of their poor people skills and bad tempers.
People with these personality traits are unlikely to be at the top of
the list for promotions to leadership positions. Impatience can even
affect relationships at home.
The more patient you are with others, the likelier you are to be viewed
positively by your peers and your managers, not to mention your family
and friends.
Signs of Impatience
How do you know when you're being impatient? You will probably
experience one of more of the following symptoms:
Shallow breathing (short breaths).
Muscle tension.
Hand clenching/tightening.
Jiggling/restless feet.
Irritability/anger.
Anxiety/nervousness.
Rushing.
Snap/quick decisions.
Finding Your Causes
If you experience the symptoms of impatience, your next step is to
discover the true cause. Many of us have "triggers." These could be
people, phrases, or specific situations (like rush-hour traffic) that
regularly cause us to enter an impatient frame of mind.
Make a list of things that cause you to become impatient. If you're
having trouble identifying your triggers, use these tips:
Stop and think about the last time you were impatient. What caused it?
You can narrow this down to the root cause by using the 5 Whys
technique.
Ask your family, friends, and co-workers about your impatience. Chances
are that they know what gets you "wound up".
Many people become impatient due to physical factors such as hunger,
dehydration, or fatigue. Analyze your body the next time you start to
feel impatient. A simple remedy might be a snack and a glass of water!
Keep a journal with you to record when you start to feel impatient.
Write down what the situation is, and why you're getting frustrated.
Identifying your triggers helps because it forces you to examine your
actions and uncover why you're doing what you're doing. This knowledge
also helps you devise strategies to avoid becoming impatient.
Of course, it would be great if you could avoid the triggers that make
you impatient. But for most of us, that's just not possible. So you
have to learn to manage impatience instead.
Managing the Symptoms
When you feel impatient, it's important to get out of this frame of
mind as quickly as possible. Try these strategies:
Take deep, slow breaths, and count to 10. Doing this helps slow your
heart rate, relaxes your body, and distances you emotionally from the
situation. If you're feeling really impatient, you might need to do a
longer count, or do this several times.
Impatience can cause you to tense your muscles involuntarily. So,
consciously focus on relaxing your body. Again, take slow, deep
breaths. Relax your muscles, from your toes up to the top of your head.
Learn to manage your emotions. Remember, you have a choice in how you
react in every situation. You can choose to be patient, or choose not
to be: it's all up to you.
Force yourself to slow down. Make yourself speak and move more slowly.
It will appear to others as if you're calm – and, by "acting" patient,
you can often "feel" more patient.
Practice active listening and empathic listening. Make sure you give
other people your full attention, and patiently plan your response to
what they say.
Remind yourself that your impatience rarely gets others to move faster
– in fact, it can interfere with other people's ability to perform
complex or highly-skilled work. All you're doing is creating more
stress, which is completely unproductive.
Try to talk yourself out of your impatient frame of mind. Remind
yourself how silly it is that you're reacting this way. People often
don't mind if a meeting is delayed, just as long as you let them know
that you're running late in advance.
If your impatience causes you to react in anger toward others, use
anger management techniques to calm down.
Some people become impatient because they're perfectionists. However,
in addition to causing impatience, perfectionism can actually slow
productivity and increase stress. Learn how to stop being a
perfectionist with our Coaching Clinic I'm a Perfectionist!
Remember that, although many people are naturally patient, the rest of
us need to practice patience for it to become a habit. Becoming more
patient won't happen overnight, but do persist – it's so important!
Key Points
Many of us struggle with impatience. But if we want healthy work
relationships and a successful career, then we need to spend time
making patience a habit.
Start by identifying your triggers. Often a specific person or
situation can immediately cause you to become impatient. When you
identify the specific causes, you're better able to discover why it's
happening. You can then use strategies to overcome your impatience.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Cash Back for Consumer Electronics!
In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, Wired and YouRenew are challenging readers to recycle 40,000 consumer electronics in one month and get cash back.
From Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, through May 21, go to http://www.wired.yourenew.com and type in your used phone, digital camera, laptop, or even your old calculator to find out what it is worth.
Thinking $5, $10, $20? Think again. The average order is $65 and can go as high as $275 for an iPhone 3GS.
It's easy. Send the used item(s) to YouRenew and they'll send you what it's worth; YouRenew refurbishes and resells the products, keeping them out of landfills, where they leak lead, cadmium and mercury into our environment and ultimately our drinking water.
Help us, help the Earth.
http://www.wired.yourenew.com
From Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, through May 21, go to http://www.wired.yourenew.com and type in your used phone, digital camera, laptop, or even your old calculator to find out what it is worth.
Thinking $5, $10, $20? Think again. The average order is $65 and can go as high as $275 for an iPhone 3GS.
It's easy. Send the used item(s) to YouRenew and they'll send you what it's worth; YouRenew refurbishes and resells the products, keeping them out of landfills, where they leak lead, cadmium and mercury into our environment and ultimately our drinking water.
Help us, help the Earth.
http://www.wired.yourenew.com
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Drink Sustainably
Drink Sustainably
The BetaCup Bodystorming Session - Overlap 09 from the betacup on Vimeo.
58 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away, unrecycled, each year. The betacup challenge is an effort to reduce this waste – and we need your help.
We invite you to submit ideas but also to comment and rate others’ ideas, and engage in discussions with other betacup community members and contest jurors.
You should consider:
Waste Reduction – how does the Idea reduce the number of non-recycled coffee cups thrown away each year?
Resources Required – what resources will it take to implement the Idea? (money, energy, water, materials, time, etc)
New or Existing Capabilities – does the Idea use existing technologies or approaches? If not, what must be created or invented to implement the Idea?
The Whole experience – Don’t forget the importance of the “whole experience”. Alternatives to paper cups are available today but they are not being widely used. How effective is the Idea likely to be in achieving its goal?
A different contest format (hint: we’re encouraging collaboration)
The betacup differs from most contest formats, because it is open. We are using jovoto, so when you submit an idea, your ideas are open to the public for comment and ratings.
The betacup differs from most contest formats, because it is open. We are using jovoto, so when you submit an idea, your ideas are open to the public for comment and ratings.
We think this feedback process will help make ideas even better, so we encourage you to submit ideas early and benefit from the feedback. Don’t have an idea? No problem, you can still help out by offering feedback to others.
How will the $20,000 prize be awarded?
The top idea as decided by a jury will earn $10,000.
The top idea as decided by a jury will earn $10,000.
The top 5 ideas as decided by community ratings will have $10,000 divided amongst them.
It is our intention that ideas submitted belong to the person submitting them. However, because the ideas are posted publicly, we encourage you to discuss possible intellectual property issues with an intellectual property lawyer before submitting. Additional please review the ownership and licensing terms are discussed in the contest rules.
This international contest starts on April 1, 2010 and ends on June 15. Visitwww.jovoto.com, register, and be part of the solution.