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You’re Taking the Wrong Route to Work (and how to find the right route)
You may not know it but you are taking the wrong route to work. How do I know? Because most people are doing the…
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11 Companies and People that you Wouldn’t Believe Failed (and how you can Succeed like them)
Unlucky Failures Unlucky people look at failure as an end, a dead end. If you fail, that part of the journey is over and…
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My ADD has ADD: How to get focused in a distracting world when you need to get stuff done
There is way too much information out there. Facebook generates 4 new petabytes of data per day. That is 1 million gigabytes per…
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How I Organized my Gmail Account with Almost No Effort
If you are like me, you have a Gmail account and never delete anything until you start running out of space and then delete…
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Get Lucky Even Though Your Parents Were Wrong
There is a point, or should be a point in everyone’s lives when you realize that the mighty and all knowing Wizards of Oz (read…
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4 Reasons to Stay Ignorant
When I was growing up, I used to love the song “Oh La La” because of the lyrics “I wish that I knew what…
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Give Someone a Compliment when you Stub your Toe
What’s your first reaction when you stub your toe? Do you yell? Do you scream? Do you blame someone? Dan Ariely, a professor of…
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They’re All Going to Laugh at You!
They say that the world can be broken up into two types of people, “talkers” and “doers”. In the online world, there are the…
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Never Turn on your Computer Again Without an Agenda
When you sit down and turn on your computer, do you know exactly what you are about to do or are you just turning…
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Get Lucky Because You Have Nothing Better to Do!
Doing something because you “have nothing better to do” always seems to have a negative connotation. You are bored and someone asks you if…
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Write Your E-mails Backwards
Have you ever accidentally sent an email before you wanted it to go out? Possibly you were in the middle of writing a sentence,…
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How to Deal with Shiny Objects and New Ideas
We all love shiny objects. They are the newest thing in town that everybody is talking about. The new toys, games, videos, business ideas,…
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Why the Hell is a Bird in the Hand Worth Two in the Bush?
Everybody has heard the saying that “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” or something similar. The traditional way of…
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Tim Ferriss and Gary Vaynerchuk are Complete Opposites, How are they Both Successful?
Tim Ferriss VS. Gary Vaynerchuk You may be a little confused. Yesterday I wrote an article about Gary Vaynerchuk and how his constant hard…
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Cognitive Dissonance: Get Lucky BY Letting Your Ego Take a Reality Slap
In general, people are very “happy go lucky”. They have their beliefs and values and everything in their life pretty much falls into place…
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Get Lucky by Hoping for the Best and Preparing for the Worst
I was just thinking about Nickelback’s song “If Today Was Your Last Day” and it really struck a chord. He talks about the best…
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The Biggest Loser is the One Watching the Show Instead of Losing Weight Himself
There are so many reality TV shows where you can watch other people do what you want to do. On the shows, people lose…
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The Wise Man Gets Lucky so why not be Wise?
No skill can compare to knowing where to find all the information you need. When you know where to go, all other skills become…
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Get Lucky by Getting your Ducks, even if they’re not in a Row
I hear so many people saying that they will not start item “B” until item “A” is accomplished. For instance, “I will not get…
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Take as Many Shots as you Can, No Matter How Bad
On Saturday night I had the privilege of going to a hockey game with my brother to see the Montreal Canadiens play the Washington…
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Believe it or not, you are Smarter than Someone!
All the way through our schooling we are measuring how smart we are. How well we do on each test, in each subject and…
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Thanks, You’re a Life Saver!
Yesterday, www.flidmedia.com, my new company’s websites was on the fritz. I messed something up in the backend and I wasn’t even able to get…
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Too Much Information Is Your Key to Getting Lucky
There once was a time where it seemed like there was a finite amount of knowledge out there. The wise men all knew the…
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
I heard a little story a while back about a woman working in the market place and along came a man who swiped one…
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Your Mood Can Determine Your Luck
Sometimes when I’m really frustrated, worrying about something or in a bad mood I sit down and play video games to calm myself down…
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Make Tomorrow Count by Using Today
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever…
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Get Smart and Lucky by Taking Notes
Mitch Hedberg , the comedian has a famous bit that when he is in bed and thinks of something funny he has to either…
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Trying is the First Step Towards Failure and Failure is the First Step Towards Success
I’m a big Simpsons fan… or at least I was when I used to watch the show. I even wrote my high school thesis…
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Lessons I Learned From Losing my Sites
As you may know, both this site and Sucky Poems went down last week for a couple of days. It turns out that the…
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Companies Must be Remarkable but Individuals can be Whatever they Want
On Thursday I wrote that Seth Godin only likes to do something if he can do it “really well” which is consistent with his…
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