David S. Finch

The Missing Links: Your Weekend Reader

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The Weekend Reader is a weekly edition of articles, posts, tips and tricks that caught my attention over the past week.

Are You a Productive Reader?: But are you productively literate? That is, when you read, do you learn anything that you can apply immediately to your life, or do the words and ideas just bounce around your brain’s pleasure areas for a while before disappearing like so many wisps of morning fog?

Five Minute Calendar: While Outlook works well for appointments, it’s clumsy for the other three on the list. Those are usually delegated to my daily goal sheet that sits by my computer. But creating a card based calendar would give me additional flexibility. I could easily take it with me in my pocket or wallet and I could easily display the cards on my desk in a plastic holder.

Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #22: Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship. We have selected 29 posts for this edition.

How to Make Grilled Pizza: Some Quick Tips for the Weekend: Grilled pizza. What's there to say about it but that it's pretty awesome and that, yes, you can grill a pizza. It's much more fun and interesting that that other stuff you're thinking about grilling.

5 Simple Tips to Make Your Idea Journal More Efficient: One of the most useful and valuable tools a blogger could own is an idea journal. Having a constant flow of ideas is essential to keep writing quality articles and maintain your blog readership. In fact, for probloggers post ideas are directly link with their income. For them, running out of ideas may be dramatic and significantly impact their living.

Strategic Collaborations: A Powerful Way to Promote Yourself: Sometimes you can’t do everything yourself. You don’t have the budget to launch a big marketing campaign. Or you don’t even know where to start. One of the best ways to promote your website or business is to work together with others to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

How to Use Social Media for Social Change: We the members of the tech community could be using our social media super-powers to make a real difference in the world. We know how to spread news fast, share images and videos, organize our friends, and empower others all by using the same social media tools that we use in our every day lives. Isn't it time we put them to use towards a good cause?

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The Missing Links: Your Weekend Reader

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The Weekend Reader is a weekly edition of articles, posts, tips and tricks that caught my attention over the past week.

Why You Should UP Marketing In A DOWN Market: When the market slows and sales start to drop, owners’ first instinct is to cut their costs. One of the first to be slashed is the marketing/advertising budget. Ad budgets are often at the top of a cost-conscious small business owner’s hit list because it’s an easy decision to make and it has an immediate impact to the bottom line. This is a grave mistake. Smart business owners know this is the time to spend more!

Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #21: Welcome to the 21st edition of the Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship. We have selected 21 posts for this edition.

The Traveling Web Worker: What You Should Know About Your Destination: With the mobility that comes with web working, we can now afford to travel for leisure while taking our work with us. However, the nature of our work gives us very specific needs. We can’t just expect to open our laptops in the mountains of Nepal and start working. Apart from tourist attractions, accommodations, and restaurants, there are several things you need to know about your destination.

46 Ways To Start A Business With No Money: Most people who want to start their own business don’t have a ton of money laying around and it’s probably one the most common questions I get emailed about: How can I get started without a lot of cash?

The Mini-Retirement Misconception: When I first learned of the mini-retirement concept, I was immediately attracted to the idea. To me it represented freedom. I had all these romantic notions associated with it, and when I found a way to take three months off from work, I jumped at the first chance and ran with it.

While traveling is an eye-opening experience and a chance to see how others live in vastly different cultures. It is exhausting, on many levels. It quickly became clear to me that the romantic concept of traveling is flawed.

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Big Brown Wins the Preakness 133

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Big Brown wins! Kentucky Derby 134 winner Big Brown wins the 133rd running of The Preakness Stakes. Big Brown will now go to New York to race in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks. If Big Brown wins at the Belmont he would be the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. It's been 30 years since we've had a Triple Crown winner. I think horse racing is overdue!

If you missed The Preakness 133 enjoy!

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Your Weekend Reader: The Late Edition

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Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #20: Welcome to the 20th edition of the Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship. We have selected 28 posts for this edition.

Keys to an Effective Idea Journal: Probably my most valuable possession as a blogger is my idea notebook/journal. Because I maintain two blogs of my own and I write on a regular basis for a few other blogs, post ideas are priceless. Without a constant flow of ideas the results of my writing would suffer and my income would drop. I know just about every blogger out there faces the same issue of constantly pumping out ideas for new posts.

The Fine Art of Refining Ideas: Creative individuals have plenty of ideas. Great big, earth-changing ideas. Unfortunately, not many of them ever evolve into anything fruitful. Why? Because having an idea is only half the battle. The real challenge is refining the idea into something more than a vapor of your imagination.

Basic Social Media Tips For Location Independent Professionals & Nomadic Web Workers: Running a business online for the past 15 months whilst moving around from country to country every couple of months, means we’ve had to get pretty smart, pretty fast about how to network online, market ourselves online and generate ongoing new business online.

16 Ways to Keep A Razor- Sharp Focus at Work: Focus is something of a novelty these days. We’ve got cellphones for texting and calls, IM, Twitter, Email, RSS feeds, Facebook, Myspace… the list goes on and on. If you don’t have ADD before you start working online, it seems it’s almost inevitable thanks to these inputs. If you’re a web worker who uses the Internet for the majority of the day, you’re especially at risk for losing focus.

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How to Be a Millionaire by 30

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Imagine what life would be like if you where a millionaire? What would you do different if you had more financial freedom? Do you know what you have to do to make that happen?

With a strategic plan and a whole lot of determination, the possibilities are available for anyone to make more money than they ever have. In this video, there are some rewarding tips that will get you thinking about your financial plan for the future.

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Use Your Time to Live

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"I would rather be ashes than dust!

I would rather that my ashes should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." -- Jack London

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3 Remarkable Ideas to a Better YOU

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Are you completely satisfied with everything about YOU? Learning how to take those things that you don't like about yourself and get them to work in your favor is what separates the remarkable from the miserable. I'm definitely sure that remarkable sounds more enjoyable.

When I was in my early teens I had a serious weight issue. This weight problem led me to eating all types of food. I ate anything I could get my hands on. I drank shakes and protein drinks and I never could seem to gain weight. This embarrassment of being the "skinny" kid kept me from a lot of things. It also caused me to develop some deep-rooted insecurities. That was until something remarkable happened!

Are you ready for this incredible discovery? Are you ready to take them and use them for yourself?

Accept who YOU are
I didn’t care what people thought about me. Neither should YOU. I completely accepted everything about me.

Stop being around negativity
I was infected with negativity. Breaking away was tough, but when I begin to look at things from a more positive perspective my whole world changed. Getting rid of negativity talk and thinking allowed me to see everything around me different.

Stop forcing EVERYTHING
We have been programmed to pursue and conquer. Nothing should stand in your way. It they don't like you, make them like you. If they don't like your ideas make them like your ideas. If they don't want to build a relationship, then force it.

However, when I finally let go and began thinking more strategically about my ideas, self-etc., instead of pushing I was invited, instead of selling I was pursued. Learning to wait can be extremely hard lesson to embrace, but when you reach your destination it sure is far more rewarding.

YOU will be surprised of what will take place when you begin walking in your shoes instead of someone else's.

Go be YOU today! Don't be a clone, be YOU! Don't be an echo, be a voice!

Leave a comment and feel free to share your story.

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The Missing Links: Your Weekend Reader

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Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship #19: Welcome to the 19th edition of the Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship. We have selected 21 posts for this edition.

Six Great Ways to Ruin a Brainstorm: A well-run brainstorm is fun and energetic. It will generate plenty of good ideas. But a poor brainstorm can be frustrating and demotivational.

How to Manage Your Time Effectively: There is a lot of stuff competing for your time. You need to determine which will receive your attention. Not all tasks and needs are equal and part of your job is to determine those that are most important and demand your attention first.

Health Insurance for Freelancers: So you’re sick of the cubicle, middle management and 9-5 hours. You dream of quitting and freelancing full time but there’s one thing holding you back: the company health plan. This is by the far the most common reason I hear from Americans on why they won’t quit the full-time job.

Standing versus Seating: Almost two months ago, I decided that I wanted to try working standing up, rather than sitting down. When sitting in my comfortable, reclining office chair, my posture was terrible, my attention span was narrowing rapidly, and I was constantly battling fatigue. After looking around online a bit, it sounded like standing was the way to go.

Kentucky Derby 134

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On the first Saturday in May, in Louisville, Kentucky one hundred thousand plus witness live the fastest two minute in sports, the Kentucky Derby. If you didn't get to see Kentucky Derby 134, enjoy!

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Getting the Most Out of Your Goals

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Getting the most out of your goals can be challenging if you don't have a system in place to make them happen. It's always easy to make a goal, getting results is another thing.

I'm an avid list maker and one of the areas that I'm constantly working on is my list of goals. Currently, I like to work off a list for the year and then I break it down to a list of goals for the month. For the most part, my monthly goals fall in line with my intentions for the year.

To get the most out of your goals, it's really important that you:

• review your top monthly goals on a daily basis
• review your yearly goals on a bi-weekly or monthly basis
• celebrate when you accomplish ALL of your monthly goals
• make yourself and goals accountable to someone else
• don't be afraid to push yourself to the limits
• don't sweat if you have to drop one of your goals

Today, at the first of the month, I've compile my list of goals for the month. I've double-checked to make sure that I'm still on track for my yearly goals. Now, it's time to buckle down and get ready for another productive month.

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