forgemonkey Archives: January 2006
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31 January 2006
Blogging Saps Precious Creative Energy
Driving home late tonight I started to realize something. Usually, in the past, I would spend long drives in the dark thinking about a screenplay or new project that I was working on.
But tonight, I realized that the time I would usually spend on that, was spent on planning out my next blog post […]
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31 January 2006
The TabletPC is a Terrible Collection Tool
Listening to the Jason Womack interview off of the Personal Productivity Podcast, I was struck by the notion of using the right tool for the job.
As most GTD’ers know, there are five steps to “Getting Things Done.” One of them, Collecting, requires that you have a easily available tool to capture any thoughts or […]
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25 January 2006
Shawshank Soundtrack
Of course, following up the Brian Eno track is the soundtrack to the greatest movie of all time, The Shawshank Redemption.
I get really mad when my wife starts watching this show on TNT because she often catches it right in the middle. You can’t watch this movie from the middle!! It’s sacrilege. […]
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25 January 2006
Haunting Melodies
OK, this is the fifth time I’m listening to this track now. It’s called “An Ending” by Brian Eno and it is one of the most beautiful melodies I’ve ever heard.
While I’m sleeping I’ve got my XM MyFi setup to record Cinemagic 27 - the movie soundtrack channel - for an hour or so. […]
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22 January 2006
Getting ON With It
Still struggling with massive wrier’s block on my own secret projects I came across an interesting article about the “abundance mentality” that I think might apply in my situation.
I first learned about the term “abundance mentality” from Stephen Covey’s excellent book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. And I’ve always remembered it when […]
