The first three reasons plus the introduction were covered yesterday. We'll continue with reasons 4 - 7 today.
4) Caffeine
I've written about the evils of caffeine here, But basically, quit your caffeine intake 8 hours before bedtime.
5) Sleep Apnea
I don't know a lot about sleep apnea, but I do have quite a few friends that I know of who have CPAP machines to help with their breathing at night.
6) Your Diet
You should stop eating about 2 hours before bed. And now is the time of year to make changes to your diet overall, since Monday will be Weigh-In Day and what you eat can affect your sleep as well as when you eat.
7) Anxiety and Depression
Basically, you don't sleep well if you're depressed. See a doctor if you are. But diet and exercise can help. We just talked about diet and will talk about exercise tomorrow.
Part 1 of a 3 part series based on a blog post by Dr. Michael Breus. Today's post will cover the introduction and the first three reasons.
I’d like to discuss 11 reasons you can’t sleep and are struggling to stay asleep but first, let me take a moment and wish you a happy holiday no matter which one you celebrate this time of year. I’m grateful that you spend your time with me each week and to have this opportunity to share my work and experience with you.
This holiday, my daughter is in China on a student exchange program so we are spending the holidays in Bejing and touring around China. It will be an interesting experience but I’m really excited to see my daughter, it’s been a while!
I've never been to China myself, although I did spend the night in Japan once.
While I used TimeShifter and everything I know to minimize my challenges with the multiple timezone difference, holiday travel always makes sleeping more difficult.
And, with all of the travel and extra people in our houses, this is the time of year when a good night’s sleep can be even harder to come by.
With the holidays here and a new decade right around the corner, I know many of my patients are fighting to carve out enough time for proper sleep. I’ve heard and seen it countless times: You’re busy, both at work and scrambling to buy gifts, and it inevitably leads to you burning the candle at both ends.
But even without the added stress (and fun) that comes with the holidays, our country is struggling to get enough rest. A recent study from Ball State University made this clear, showing more than 35% of working Americans aren’t getting sufficient sleep.
There are a variety of reasons why that could be the case for you — reasons that could impact you not just during the holiday but at any point during the year. Because it’s not just about setting aside time for enough sleep. There are also a number of issues that could be interfering with your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep long enough to complete the four stages of sleep.
That’s why this week I wanted to give you a quick rundown of the 11 major reasons you may be having a hard time getting a good night’s sleep. Poor sleep contributes to a number of health issues like heart disease and stroke and shouldn’t be overlooked. If you’re waking up feeling tired, irritable and suffering from brain fog, please be mindful of these potential triggers.
1) Your Temperature
The ideal room temperature is around 65 degrees but our body temperature is important too. The cooling of our bodies is a primary indication to our brains that it's time to go to sleep. That's why taking a warm bath or shower right before bed is good for you. It raises your body temperature a little bit more and it'll cool even more rapidly when you go to bed.
2) Everyday Concerns
This may be a good time for yoga or meditation. I used to do 20 minutes of yoga before bed because I had read an article in Reader's Digest that yoga could help you sleep better. (I just checked their website but the article wasn't there...but it was about 15 years ago. Although there was a different one on yoga and sleep)
3) Alcohol
I wrote about this one recently. Basically, stop drinking alcohol three hours before bedtime.
That's it for today. I'll cover the next four reasons tomorrow and the remaining four reasons the next day.
Monday - "BuJo - Faster than a speeding bullet (journal) #MBM" It's the perfect time to begin journaling. "A bullet journal in simplest form is a combination of a planner, diary, notebook, to-do list, and a sketchbook."
Tuesday - "Start a Journal" More on journaling, this time from The Art of Manliness. "This is where bullet journaling can come in, as well as the traditional diary or journal."
Wednesday - "Merry Christmas" I hope everyone had a good holiday. "No post today, just a wish that all of my friends and family have a Merry Christmas!"
Thursday - "Culture You Can Heft #TBT" Vinyl records and books made out of paper, these are a few of my favorite things. "Why after obtaining infinite access to any and all culture via the cloud, are many people coming back to earth and picking up culture they can heft?"
Today's blog post is based on an article from The Art of Manliness:
But, for the past couple of years, I’ve found myself growing increasingly dissatisfied with the digital way of consuming all this culture; the sheen of its apparently golden hue — and its accompanying thrill — began to wear off. I felt stuffed with all these options. Saturated. And yet strangely hungry at the same time.
I’ve consequently found myself wandering back into the world of “analog” culture. Instead of reading books on a Kindle, I prefer to read physical books. Instead of streaming music, I’ve been listening to old scratchy vinyl records. Instead of reading news online, I subscribe to the physical version of our local newspaper. I did this, not out of some hipster desire to be idiosyncratic, but simply because it felt right, seemed to scratch a certain itch that hadn’t gone away.
I’m not the only one who’s been making this pivot — a 360, I guess. Studies have shown that while ebooks were outselling physical books a few years ago, that trend has reversed; sales of paperback and hardback books have risen while the sales of ebooks have declined. The number of independent bookstores is growing and their sales are on the rise. Vinyl records have made a roaring comeback over the past decade.
I've written on this subject before. This subject is very appropriate since today is Thank You Note Day...not Thank You Email Day, or Thank You Post Day or Thank You E-card Day. There is something special about getting a tangible letter or card in the mail.
Why after obtaining infinite access to any and all culture via the cloud, are many people coming back to earth and picking up culture they can heft?
Here are a few ideas:
Culture You Can Heft Is Just More Enjoyable to Consume
Culture You Can Heft Exhibits What Makes You, You
Culture You Can Heft Increases the Amount of Serendipity in Your Life
This is one of the things I miss the most about the old library card catalogs
You Actually Own Culture You Can Heft
Culture You Can Heft Channels Your Focus Into One Activity
Culture Can You Can Heft Will Always Be Accessible, A Decade, or a Century, From Now
Culture You Can Heft Has Defined Perimeters — An Actual End Point
Digital Culture and Culture You Can Heft Working Together
How do you prefer to partake of culture? Digital or analog?
This is day 8 of the 30 Days to a Better Man series from The Art of Manliness.
Since we're rapidly approaching a new year, this seems like a good time to write about journaling. I wrote about bullet journaling yesterday, and there's a page on the BuJo website on what they call "long form journaling", which tells how to do "normal" journaling in your bullet journal.
Check out the video to see how to implement long form journaling in your bullet journal.
Here are some excerpts from the AoM article:
My grandpa, Bill Hurst, was a journal writer his entire life. His journal was quite simple. He just kept a small notebook in the pocket of his pearl snap shirts and jotted down a short description of the things he did and the people he did it with. This is something he did pretty much every day for his entire life. He also kept extensive diaries of his time as a forest ranger in the Wasatch Range.
About 12 years ago, my grandpa took all these diaries and daily journal entries and began to write his memoir for his children and grandchildren. The finished product was a 500 page behemoth filled with stories from my grandfather’s life. Here’s just a few of the interesting things I learned from reading it:
My grandpa met my grandma by hitting on her while she worked as a telephone operator.
My grandpa helped pay for college by playing pool.
He worked as a sheep herder during the summers in high school and college. He gives a very descriptive account on how castrating sheep is performed. He did it just like this.
He has a scar from when he was hit by a car while racing his horse through the streets of his boyhood town. The horse died.
As a boy, his family traveled by horse and buggy.
There’s more. Lots more. But while the stories are interesting, what I found more interesting was the commentary my grandpa gave on different events in his life. In these moments, he passed on some insights and lessons on what it means to be a man. My grandpa’s memoir is a treasure trove of knowledge and wisdom from a life well lived. By writing his memoir, he guaranteed that his legacy will live on indefinitely.
But his life story would have been but a few pages long had he not kept a journal.
There are a myriad of other benefits to keeping a daily journal besides remembering what you ate five years ago. So today’s task is to start the journaling habit.
Next he goes on to talk about the fact that great men keep journals. Would we even know about these men if they hadn't kept journals?
In studying the lives of great men, I’ve noticed a common trait: they were all consistent journal writers. Now, I’m not saying that their greatness is directly attributable to their journaling. I’m sure Captain Cook would still have been a bad ass even if he hadn’t kept a diary. But I figure, if great men like these thought it was important to keep a journal, maybe I should, too. Heck, if it weren’t for their journals, we probably wouldn’t know much about their great lives and deeds.
Here’s a short list of great men from history who kept journals:
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
Charles Darwin
Benjamin Franklin
Lewis and Clark
Andrew Carnegie
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Captain Cook
Winston Churchill
Sir Edmund Hilary
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Doogie Howser M.D.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
The article the goes on to talk about why you should keep a journal. Here are the highlights:
Your children and grandchildren will want to read it.
It can bring you to your senses.
Journaling grants you immortality.
Journaling improves your health.
But how do you go about it?
Pick a medium.
Analog journals, the paper and pen variety, are what we traditionally think of when we think of journals. You can use something as basic as a spiral bound notebook and a Bic pen or something as fancy as a hand bound leather journal and a fountain pen. Just do what works for you.
This is where bullet journaling can come in, as well as the traditional diary or journal.
With the advent of computers, many people have gone digital with their journaling. The digital world offers a plethora of options to record your daily happenings and thoughts.
Here’s a list of possible desktop digital tools in which to keep your journal:
Word Processor.
TextEditor/Notepad.
JDarkroom.
OneNote.
Evernote.
Evernote is a handy tool. I use it to store emails and a lot of different things.
The internet provides several options for you to store your journal in the “cloud” and even share it with other people. A few options:
Blogspot.
LiveJournal.
WordPress.com
Use Gmail as a journal.
Blogspot is what I use for this blog, although I'm considering moving over to WordPress.
Schedule a time.
Starting a journal is easy enough. Sticking to it on a daily basis is more difficult. If you want to make it a habit, just pick a time in your day for journal writing and make it a non-negotiable in your life. I like doing it at night right before I go to bed. It’s a good way to decompress and review the day’s events. But some people prefer writing in the morning or jotting down thoughts throughout the day. Just do what works for you.
Some days you might not have the energy or desire to write in your journal. On those days, just write something. It can be a sentence long. It can simply be, “I’m not in the mood to write.” Just keep your commitment.
I've journaled before, years ago in a "diary", but that didn't last too long. I tried BuJo earlier this year but that didn't work either but I'm going to revive it again. Although, this blog is pretty much a journal. I write about the things that are on my mind and I try to do it on a consistent basis which works out to 3 days a week of new material and 3 days a week of throwbacks and summaries of the week.
One of the most memorable journal entries I’ve come across was written by TR on the day both his wife and mother died. Instead of spending several pages outlining his grief, this is all it said:
Now that you've figured out what medium you're going to use and when you're going to write your journal, the next big question is what are you going to write about?
This is where a lot of people get hung up on with journaling. They feel like they don’t have anything to write about so they end up not writing at all. There are hundreds of books that give you “suggestions” of what to write about in your journal. Usually they’re cheesy and inane things like, “If you were a cloud, what shape would you be.”
They do offer a 31 day jumpstart to journaling article on the website, and this one on building self-reliance too.
Just write about your day. No need to get fancy with those cute little journal prompts. Some days might be pretty routine, but other days you might be feeling philosophical or have a problem that will require you to write more in-depth entries. Just write what comes naturally to you on that day.
This is how bullet journaling works.
And as we mentioned above, while you might think your life is boring, your great grand kids won’t. They’ll be just as fascinated about you driving a car that runs on gasoline as you are about your great grandpa driving a horse and buggy. If your life really is boring, perhaps keeping a journal will give you an incentive to take on more adventures so you have something to write about.
I'll let you know how my journaling journey goes and I hope that you'll do the same.
This is a Meander Back Monday post. It was supposed to be a #TBT for next month, but I wanted to get it out before the end of the year. It was originally published on January 23 of this year:
Bullet journaling or BuJo for short was one of the 5 ways to use your time off like experts do to prep for a productive week featured in yesterday's blog post.
A bullet journal in simplest form is a combination of a planner, diary, notebook, to-do list, and a sketchbook.
All you need is a notebook, preferably lined, and a simple system. The system consists of an index page, future pages, a monthly log, a daily log, and collections. It's really simpler than it sounds, check out this video:
If you go to the website, bulletjournaling.com, they have fancy notebooks in different colors, but all you need is a lined notebook from the dollar store. But they do have some good tutorials there on how to get started.
I think I'll pick up a notebook today and give it a shot.
If you've done bullet journaling or if you decide to try it, let me know.
I did start bullet journalling earlier this year but I didn't keep up with it. But it's the ideal time to start again!
Monday - "How to Find Your Calling in Life" From The Art of Manliness. "This gets back to the idea of what we want to be when we grow up and is a huge part of adulthood. As we talked about last week, if you don't follow your "dream", there will be problems in the future, especially during the transitions."
Tuesday - "Assault Your Assumptions Through Red Teaming" More from The Art of Manliness. "One of the ways you can use this in your personal life is by doing a pre-mortem. A post-mortem figures out the cause of death after the fact, while a pre-mortem figures out "the cause of death" of your plans before they happen."
Wednesday - "We Tried 8 Methods of Cooking Bacon and Found an Absolute Winner" Bacon Day is coming up on the 30th. "This is the bacon to pile onto burgers or BLTs, or to enjoy alongside pancakes or waffles, dragging the strips through syrup or runny egg yolks."
Thursday - "The 12 days of follow up #TBT" If you're in business, follow up is extremely important. "I'll be going over the different types of follow-up and why you want to follow-up with potential clients as well as existing ones. And don't forget your friends and family...the occasional Facebook post isn't enough."
Starting next Monday, December 26th, and running for the next 4 weeks, I'll be writing about the 12 days of follow-up.
(Thursday this year)
I'll be going over the different types of follow-up and why you want to follow-up with potential clients as well as existing ones. And don't forget your friends and family...the occasional Facebook post isn't enough.
Here are some ways of keeping in touch that my friend, Casey Eberhart, presented at his Networking Riches event back in May:
We'll be talking about most, if not all, of these ways of keeping in touch, as well as possibly some other ways.
Even though we're talking about the 12 days of follow up, you won't want to follow up 12 days in a row...that will probably border on stalking. We'll talk about how often to follow-up over the coming weeks.
We're going to start with thank you cards, since December 26th is Thank You Note Day.
Since Bacon Day is coming up at the end of the month, it seems like a good time to determine the best method for cooking it. This blog post is based on an article from Kitchn.
People often joke that bacon makes everything better. I tend to agree. I use it a lot as a flavoring agent in recipes — a slice or two to infuse a pot of dried beans with porky richness, for example. But on #treatyoself days, I’ll cook up a mess of bacon as a more substantial component to a dish, or as a standalone food. This is the bacon to pile onto burgers or BLTs, or to enjoy alongside pancakes or waffles, dragging the strips through syrup or runny egg yolks.
Yet I’ve never had a consistent, go-to method for cooking that bacon. I’ve cooked it in a skillet and in the oven, and I’ve resorted to the microwave when I was in a hurry. I’ve read about air fryer and sous vide methods I’d like to try, as well as other hacks for easier cleanup or better texture.
To find which method or methods work best, I tested eight that are touted by trusted website sources and compared the results side-by-side. My house smelled amazing, by the way, and my sons and husband were delighted to help me taste test.
Here's a listing of the 8 methods, with their overall ranking on a scale of 1 - 10:
Water in Skillet: Rating: 5/10
Microwave: Rating: 6/10
Nonstick Skillet: Rating: 6/10
Baking on a Rack with Paper Towels Underneath: Rating: 7/10
Air Fryer: Rating: 7/10
Sous Vide: Rating: 8/10
Cast Iron Skillet: Rating: 8/10
Baking on Parchment Paper: Rating: 10/10
Make sure you read the article to see the pros and cons of each method. Your ratings may be somewhat different based on your preferences.
Let me know if you try any of these methods and let me know what you think!
Today's blog post is based on a podcast from The Art of Manliness:
We live in an age of disruption. Companies that were once stalwarts are overtaken by small, plucky upstarts. Our personal lives can also be disrupted. We lose a job or a business fails.
My guest today says that instead of waiting to be disrupted by outside forces, you’re better off using techniques developed by intelligence agencies and the military to disrupt yourself first. His name is Bryce Hoffman and he’s the author of the book Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything. We begin our show discussing what red teaming is and the history of its development, from wargaming by 19th century Prussians to more sophisticated techniques developed by the US military during the war on terrorism. Bryce and I discuss the hidden biases that red teaming is designed to counter, and then get into the specific red teaming techniques you can start using today to challenge your assumptions, stress-test your strategies, identify unseen threats, and make better decisions in both your personal life and your business.
The podcast was really interesting and it talked about the history of red teaming and applications in your business and personal life
As it says above, this was mainly developed by the Prussian army after they were defeated by Napoleon.
They got their best generals together to figure out what they could do to defeat him in a future battle. They did this by dividing into two teams...since the Prussian army had blue uniforms, they were the blue team and the team trying to figure out how to beat the Prussian army (Napoleon's army) was the red team. The red team helped the generals figure out what their weaknesses were and what they could do to overcome them.
Crayola used to have a color called Prussian Blue:
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Listed below are the highlights from the show:
What is “red teaming”?
How the failures of 9/11 brought the idea of red teaming to the forefront
How Prussians developed the idea of war games and the early concept of red teaming
How red teaming has greatly enhanced America’s defense systems
The ways that businesses — large and small alike — use these concepts
What are the biggest errors people and organizations tend to make in their decision making?
What Adam Smith got wrong with his rational choice theory
The biases and heuristics that lead us astray
Using red teaming ideas in your personal life
What is a key assumptions check?
The power of red teaming in a group
What are the four ways of seeing?
What’s a pre-mortem?
How do you bring up contrarian views without stepping on toes?
One of the ways you can use this in your personal life is by doing a pre-mortem. A post-mortem figures out the cause of death after the fact, while a pre-mortem figures out "the cause of death" of your plans before they happen.
Former poker player, Annie Duke, talks about pre-mortems in this article from Marketwatch. Listen to this Art of Manliness podcast with her. I found both sources very interesting and have been reading her book "Thinking in Bets".
This is similar to the Plan B system that I talked about here.
Today's blog post is based on a podcast from The Art of Manliness, and it ties in with the three part series from last week.
Nearly everyone has experienced the sense of being nudged and prompted to take certain actions. These intuitive hints can spur us to do big things like change jobs, or smaller things like text a friend.
My guest today says that these are callings, and that if we don’t answer them, they’ll continue to rememerge and can haunt us til the day we die. His name is Gregg Leroy and he’s the author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life. We begin our conversation discussing what exactly a calling is and why it’s not necessarily the same thing as a vocation. Gregg then shares how callings come to people, why they’re sometimes unpleasant and challenging, and what you can do to attune yourself to their signals. Gregg then shares different ways people go about figuring out their calling, including rites of passage, traveling, art, and community. We get into how you figure out if something you think is a calling is actually a calling or not, and the idea that while every calling demands a response, that response can be negotiated. We end our conversation discussing what happens when your calling ends in what looks like failure.
This gets back to the idea of what we want to be when we grow up and is a huge part of adulthood. As we talked about last week, if you don't follow your "dream", there will be problems in the future, especially during the transitions.
Anything we can do to help us find the right job is probably a good thing.
They talk about some of the smaller callings like texting a friend, or calling your mother. These are what we call a prompting in SendOutCards and I talked about them a while back and used it as the topic of my presentation at my Gold Star meeting last week.
Here are the highlights from the program:
What is a calling?
The difference between calling and vocation
The various natures and channels that callings take
What’s the benefit of being attuned to these callings?
Can callings be secular in nature?
Are callings always pleasant? Do they always feel good?
How do you attune yourself to hearing life’s callings?
The ways in which busyness disrupt your self-reflection
How crises can disrupt our life in positive ways
Can you invoke calls?
What about dreams? Do they have any meaning? What about folks who pass them off as “woo woo”?
The power of rites of passage
Why every man needs quiet and solitude (often out in nature)
How restlessness can point you in new and better directions
How to discern if callings are “true” or delusions
What happens when you say no to a call?
Negotiating multiple callings
The role of community in our callings
What can listeners do today to start tapping into their callings?
One of the rites of passage that was discussed was the vision quest, which reminded me of the movie "City Slickers", although it wasn't what would be considered a true vision quest, the characters did leave their "village" in search of their calling. Especially the part where Curly talks about "the one thing", which I wrote about here.
Be sure to check out the podcast and also the series on finding your calling.
Monday - "The Seasons of a Man’s Life: An Introduction" The first of a three part series from The Art of Manliness. "Just like the seasons of the year, the periods of adult development are neither good nor bad; rather, as each season is shaped by particular biological, psychological, and social factors, each simply brings “changes in the character of living.”
Tuesday - "The Seasons of a Man’s Life: Early Adulthood" The second of a three part series from The Art of Manliness. "Today we’ll delve into the specific character of these periods as experienced in the era of Early Adulthood, which lasts from about the late teens until the early forties."
Wednesday - "The Seasons of a Man’s Life: The Mid-Life Transition" The third of a three part series from The Art of Manliness. "While the idea of adult development being a lifelong process, and of there being unique phases within it, is not widely known in popular culture, most people have probably heard of having a “midlife crisis.”
Thursday - "How to Generate Endless Blog Topics #TBT" Being a blog post content creator, this really resonates with me. "So how can we keep coming up with new ideas every week? Here’s one way to help you generate blog topic ideas."
I met Andy McClure of Sherpa Business Development about 3 years ago at Regus in San Ramon (I believe). Andy gave a presentation there, I don't remember the subject but the important thing is that I remember him and his company...thanks to the emails he sends and the posts he makes on LinkedIn.
I don't always read his emails, or posts on LinkedIn, but this particular one, "How to Generate Endless Blog Topics" caught my eye, since I'm always looking for topics for my blog.
Heres' an excerpt from Andy's blog post:
So how can we keep coming up with new ideas every week? Here’s one way to help you generate blog topic ideas. Let’s call it the multi-hub and spoke blog topic machine. Or you can just call it the answer to your empty piece of paper with “blog post topics” written across the top.
First step: down the left side of a piece of paper make a list of questions your ideal clients are likely to have, that are related to the problems you and your business can resolve. Note they don’t have to be completely within your “lane” - remember, the goal of your blog posts is to be helpful.
Andy uses an example of an accounting firm and lists questions that their potential clients may have. And then he goes on:
As you make this list, leave four or five lines between items. You’re going to take each question and translate it into four potential blog post topics. Those four topic types are: list, how to, curated, and “newsjacking"
He then goes on to describe each of the four types:
List-style blog topic: Readers love these kinds of posts because they can quickly pick up some very tangible ideas to help with their situation. You see this type all over the web “11 reasons, ideas, techniques to do, avoid, profit from… something.” On the question of avoiding tax expenses, you can see how this would work “7 little-known tax savings opportunities for small businesses” or similar.
“How-to” blog topic: pretty self-explanatory. This is perhaps the first type of post you think to write, and it can be intimidating. First of all, you may get stuck thinking it’s just too complex to explain how to do some aspect of your job. Secondly, you may wonder why you’d want to do that in the first place! After all, your clients pay you for this service -- why would you offer it in a blog post for free? ( I address that line of thinking here.)
What he or she is after is a solution to a simple problem, not an instruction manual in how to be you. Back to the tax question example, a blog post might go down one simple path like “How to organize your business expenses so your accountant can maximize your tax savings.”
Curated blog topic: one of the most overlooked post types. This is a great one to pull out when you’re really struggling to find inspiration to write something original. Simply research other material already online that deals with the same issue. I don’t recommend you pick out what a direct competitor has published, because you’ll need to link to and attribute the source. There’s no need to send your visitors to a competitor simply because your writing juices aren’t flowing! Great sources of material are large (expensive) firms that your ideal clients wouldn’t hire or nationally renowned gurus who write a lot, but aren’t necessarily interested in working directly with your firm’s type of client. Here’s what it takes:
Research and select an existing piece of content that would help your reader.
Include a clear reference re: the original author as well as a link.
Write your own introductory paragraph explaining why you felt this would be helpful information.
Copy a bit (a paragraph or two, perhaps) of particularly useful information and offer additional commentary.
Wrap it up with a conclusion and a call-to-action to download your wonderful guide that offers more thorough help! (that’s a topic for another day).
Newsjacking blog topic: What happened in your industry, city, industry you serve, or Hollywood this week? If there is ANY way you can connect it back to the services your firm offers, you’ve got potential to pull together a newsjacking post. Do you want a sliver of the searches people are launching like “[enter famous business here] tax fraud case”? We can do that! Simply write a post “[famous company]’s tax fraud problem and how your business can avoid the same trap.”
This post is an example of a curated blog topic. I used Andy's material (which I attributed to him), as well as a link to his email address, his main website and a direct link to this blog post on his website. I often use curated posts, such as when I use material from "The Art of Manliness" as well as Harvey Mackay. I started out just using excerpts but then I started copying the whole thing. I'm going back to using just excerpts with a link to the original article if the reader would like to read more.
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