Luck seems to have a peculiar attachment to work. I’m sure that you have heard the Dave Thomas quote: “It seems the harder I work, the luckier I get.” I would tend to agree with that statement, but I think there are a few other conditions that affect your “luck” — things like instinct, timing, market [...]
By Early To Rise | Mon, Feb 22, 2010
Magnanimity (mag-nuh-NIM-ih-tee) — from the Latin for “great” + “soul” — is the quality of being courageously noble in mind and spirit; generous, forgiving, and unselfish. Example (as used by Henry David Thoreau in Walden): “To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts… but so to love wisdom as to live according to [...]
By Michael Masterson | Sat, Feb 20, 2010
Now that our last child is about to leave home, K and I are talking about getting television service. For about 20 years, we have been without it. The idea was that our children would become better readers without the distraction — and that objective was achieved. All three of our boys are voracious and [...]
By Jason Holland | Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Social media marketing has been all the rage for several years now. But most social media mavens are missing a key point in their strategy. David Riklan, founder of Self Improvement Online and a new contributor to ETR, tells you what it is in his essay today. ———————————————-Advertisement———————————————– “This year, I claimed $134,408 on my income tax [...]
By Don Hauptman | Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Headline: “Thirteen state attorney generals threaten lawsuit over Nebraska’s health care deal.” The phrase attorney generals isn’t wrong. But it’s not standard English. The approved form is attorneys general. This is one of several compounds in which the adjective follows rather than precedes the noun, and where the plural is formed by adding -s to the noun, [...]
By David Riklan | Fri, Feb 19, 2010
Everywhere I turn, I hear about how fantastic social media is. People tell me they are spending six hours a day on Facebook. They are responding to Twitter tweets all day and all night. Facebook’s 350 million users collectively spend more than 8 billion minutes on the site each day. That’s amazing. Many of these people think [...]
By Early To Rise | Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Pertinacious (pur-tn-AY-shus) — from the Latin for “to hold” — means stubbornly or perversely persistent. Example (as used by David Cross today): “I believe I was more pertinacious than the average Internet user.”
By David Cross | Thu, Feb 18, 2010
When you click on an online ad that interests you, you expect to be presented with a way to buy that item almost immediately. Right? But far too many businesses advertising online do not give you this logical next step. For example, while perusing the BBC News website, I stumbled upon a heavyweight sweatshirt advertised by [...]
By Jason Holland | Thu, Feb 18, 2010
Many online businesses are totally wasting their ad budgets, says David Cross. What’s the deal? No matter how good the ad or its placement, he explains, it’ll bring in only a fraction of its potential orders (if any) if you don’t take the next step… —————————————-Advertisement——————————————— $2.3 Trillion Floats by You Every Year… Billions of dollars every [...]
By Harvey Mackay | Wed, Feb 17, 2010
We all start out in life with one thing in common – the same number of minutes and hours in each day. That remains constant whether we live 50 years or 100 years. So why is it that some people accomplish so much, and others, very little? One important reason, time management. Improve your time management [...]
By Harvey Mackay | Mon, Feb 22, 2010
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