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Lifestyle Upgrades
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What do motivational thoughts do? They help you take action. This isn't about positive thinking or motivating quotes. Those have their place in shaping your attitude and thinking. However, what motivates each of us is unique, so you need to have your own thoughts - those which are most effective at getting you going.
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Self Improvement
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Forget about empowerment. Forget leadership training. Forget coaching skills. The way to make a difference to your company is through rebellious underground movements.
But underground movements are a Bad Thing. They work against the hierarchy and against the good of the organisation that they inhabit. Rebellion undermines the leadership and weakens the shared direction of an organisation. Then again, underground movements are a Good Thing. Radical change is rarely in the immediate interest of those at the top of the hierarchy. Even when they realise its necessity they are often powerless to make it happen because of the low level involvement needed by every individual. The significant shifts in political and business development that have occurred through history have often happened because of underground movements and rebellion.
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Random Reading
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There comes a time in everyone’s life when they look around and wonder what all the stuff that they have gathered up over the course of their life actually is. Collecting and gathering are natural parts of life, possibly going back as far as our caveman days when gathering was a prerequisite to the very survival of our species. Obscure studies have shown that cavemen (and women) collected anything and everything they could find just in case that they might need it in order to survive one day. Stone age caves are generally found to be full of sand, rocks and bones and, on occasion graffiti, for this reason.
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Lifestyle Upgrades
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Are you wondering what all the fuss is about credit reports? Or perhaps you’ve just been turned down for a job or an apartment because of your credit report. If this sounds like you, then maybe you need a quick lesson about what it is. Let’s start with the basics.
What is it?
Anytime you borrow money from someone, your record of re-payment will be public record. Every time you make a payment on time—or late—it will go on your record. In addition, every time someone requests a copy of your credit report, that will be noted as well. If you are involved in a bankruptcy, or have a tax lien, it will all go on the report.
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Inspirational Technology
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RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification. Its supporters tout its amazing power to streamline it supply chain. I am in agreement with those supporters. RFID will significantly increase the efficiency of supply chains. The problem with RFID is that the RFID tags will be released into the world and become a privacy and security nightmare. I think that the true potential of this technology is as big as the internet. That is a bold statement, but think about it. The internet is electronic content in small pieces linked together. RFID taken to its logical limits becomes the internet of things. Imagine if every thing made in the world could shout out its existence. If you have enough RFID scanners and internet capacity you could place every man made object in its GPS location. Get your mind around that for a second. Every manmade object with real-time global placement.
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Self Improvement
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Impulse spending is a result of you and your family believing you need something or your family having easy access to money. Money that can be easily accessed by using a credit card or via your checking account. These are methods of payment that should be avoided. Impulse spending is also caused by lack of financial planning. People spend too much because they don't make a list (plan for) items that they need to purchase at a store.
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Self Improvement
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I've never been so insulted. All I wanted was some reassurance that the path I have chosen - the pursuit of simplicity in the workplace - was a valid and noble one. And what did I get back? A tirade the likes of which I haven't experienced in the three years, as it is now, that I have been promoting this cause. The vilification was started by a companion I have had for over 20 years. I asked my old friend to tell me what it means to be simple. "Weak in intellect," came the reply, bluntly. "Unworldly, unsophisticated; feeble-minded, ignorant, uneducated."
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