
Because we love you, lifehack.org is hosting a very special giveaway this month. The theme for February is “relationships” — between people, between ideas, between creators and their audiences, between businesses and their clients, even between you and your time.
We’ve got some great stuff to give away.
- SmartDraw business graphics software: Create professional-quality flowcharts, org charts, Venn diagrams, mind maps, and more. Comes with dozens of awesome templates, or start from scratch with this easy-to-use, intuitive software. (Value: $297.00 US)
- Facebook App Creator for Bloggers Pro Blogger accounts: Create apps with your site’s contents (or your flickr feed, or your podcast, or anything else that has an RSS feed) that your fans can embed into their Facebook accounts. Pro Blogger accounts allow you to make apps for up to 10 blogs. Lifetime subscription. (Value: $30.00 US/mo.)
- WeekDate Weekly Planners: These stylish planners are uniquely designed to help you track recurring events without having to recopy them every week or month. Unfolds in three parts: the top is for weekly events, the bottom for monthlies. The middle features a week-at-a-time planner, with space for notes and tasks. My partner’s been “stress-testing” one of these to track her full-time college schedule, full-time work schedule, and more-than-full-time mom schedule, and she’s loving it. (Value: $29.95 US)
- Zen To Done: Leo Babauta’s popular ebook on living simply and making the most of your time. See my review. (Value: $9.50 US)
The prize packages are as follows:
- First Prize – One Winner: 1 ea. SmartDraw, Facebook App Creator for Bloggers subscription, WeekDate planner, and Zen to Done.
- Second Prize – Three Winners: 1 ea. Facebook App Creator subscription, WeekDate planner, and Zen to Done.
- Third Prize – Five Winners: One copy of Zen to Done.
To enter, write a post at your blog about relationships. Any kind of relationships, any kind of post: tell us how to build relationships; describe a relationship that went sour; describe your relationship with your clients, partner, or children; whatever you’re inspired to write by the idea of relationships.
While we’d appreciate you linked back to this post, or sent a trackback, it’s not required in order to win. Instead, leave a comment on this post with a link to your post.
The contest will close at midnight, Pacific Standard Time, on February 21st. Winners will be selected at random from all eligible entries submitted before that time.








Normally I don’t enter contests, but by an odd coincidence, I had already written an entry in the form of my weekly humor column. Talk about your happy coincidences.
http://laughing-stalk.blogspot.com/2008/02/for-better-or-worse-lot-worse.html
Here’s my entry: http://www.successminders.com/2006/01/15/success-requires-support/
I can’t be successful without the help and support of the people around me. It’s easy to overlook that and take it for granted.
I mention a tip that helps me keep it in mind so I don’t take it for granted so easily.
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I hope poems are acceptable. :-)
http://www.illogicalparadox.frih.net/?p=161
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“Learn to love yourself” as an adage to solve habitually unsatisfying relationships is trite, but unerringly true.
You will spend your lifetime looking for someone who can perform an impossible magic; read your thoughts, have witnessed the exact same events in your lifetime, has walked in your body, and lived in your shoes, if only you learn how to accept your faults and treasure your virtues.
The only person who can truly know you is you. Learn “you” and the rest of the world has a much easier time getting to know it.
sorry, “if only” should be “unless”
I have previously write an entry – The Secret of Happiness (Only To Be Read By Couples)
Hopefully it will be a nice complement to the other relationship articles :)
Here’s the link (and a request):
http://www.lifevesting.com/blog/2008/02/05/what-is-love/
Just a short on stepping out of your usual network and seeing others as you see yourself. Here is the link
http://callingallsheep.blogspot.com/2008/02/have-you-been-here.html
.. relationships are give and take
http://bluedotfrog.blogspot.com/2008/02/you-can-give-of-yourself-in-so-many.html
Argh, multiple links get treated as spam, so I guess I’ll go with the most recent one:
http://sweetpeastudio.biz/wordpress/2007/06/01/love-and-respect/
The maturing of an essential relationship…
http://gottakeepitoff.blogspot.com/2008/02/food-glorious-food.html
Hi lifehack.org, this is my piece… I hope you like it… Happy Valentines Day! :) http://addledincarnate.blogspot.com/2008/02/angel-of-love.html
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The Problem With “You Complete Me”
http://www.worklovelife.com/2008/02/problem-with-you-complete-me.html
This one is more about love than about relationships… but hey, I needed to write it anyway, so what the heck. :-)
http://www.dontasq.com/blurblog/2008/02/17/words-of-love
My note. Tasteless people in pairs?
http://mlokos.blogspot.com/2008/02/contest-note.html
I’m not poetic, but I was musing about the economics of relationships
http://stealth-homestead.blogspot.com/2008/02/on-relationships.html
http://estmithas.vox.com/library/post/cal.html
Sure, why not?
Count me in:
http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/649/building-business-relationships
on building business relationships.
http://kthdsn.com/blog/how-to-enjoy-your-relationships
Thanks for the inspiration!
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My Mantra for Building Business Relationships: Treat Partners/ Vendors/ Suppliers Like Customers
http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/my-mantra-for-building-business-relationships-treat-partners-vendors-suppliers-like-customers/
On the relationship between management organization and Chinese medicine theory.
http://aimcberkeley.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1679528%3ABlogPost%3A2484
I’ve already submitted a blog post of mine, but I thought this would also be nicely relevant. I edited this piece from an original post by Neal Gorenflo on building relationships in social settings by following “Mingle Dynamics: Ten Ideas for Sparkling in Any Room.”
http://denverabundance.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1980078%3ATopic%3A335
Neal’s profile:
http://denverabundance.ning.com/profile/NealGorenflo
http://katie-jennings.blogspot.com/2008/02/so-this-blog-has-been-created-slightly.html
Hope this is ok!
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I talked about the relationship between myself and my dog.
http://sevendaymother.com/2008/02/20/man-dog-a-special-relationship/
I wrote about relationships in terms of a trend of Professional Men going to Brazil to pay for the girlfriend experience, and how negotation tactics determine their motives.
http://mzpnutbuttahunny.blogspot.com/2008/02/bring-it-to-brazil.html
Here’s my post on ” how to have an affair… with your spouse.” Hope you enjoy.
http://www.simplemarriage.net/how-to-have-an-affair-with-your-spouse.html
I’m a grant consultant and encourage my clients to pursue relationships with the competition. See my post at:
http://grantmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-are-your-partners.html
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OK, I wrote about my relationship to my home town:
http://liveslessordinary.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/in-love-with-my-home/
I’ve posted photos too!
Somebody told me about this after reading a recent post of mine…so here I am…
http://maygandutp.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-love-worth-waiting-for.html
This may be a bit reflexive, but I posted on writing about relationships between characters. Here’s the link:
firstbookwriters.blogspot.com/2008/02/relationships-rule.html
I see that I didn’t make a live link. Let me try again.
http://firstbookwriters.blogspot.com/2008/02/relationships-rule.html
Don’t count it twice, please! It’s only one post.
Thanks!
I hope my short story about Valentine’s day is valid:
http://textorama.blogspot.com/2008/02/from-your-valentine-um-carto-histria-de.html
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Hi.
I wrote about 5 advices that help to build any relationship. Enjoy.
http://www.kacperwrzesniewski.com/5-advices-that-help-you-build-a-new-relationship/
Here’s a geeky and nostalgic valentine’s day post:
http://blogofdistinction.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/love-lettersletters/
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My post is about the art of meaningful relationships…
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/site-news/the-lifehackorg-spread-the-love-contest.html
Thanks Lifehack.
I wrote a post on fear of strangers, and how that conflicts with the importance of relationships to our happiness. I need to add a bit to it, once I’ve had a bit more time to mull it over. But there you are.
http://postmodernhousewife.blogspot.com/
Gosh I hope I win Zen to Done, I’m finding GTD so overwhelming!
Well, mine’s about my relationship with my 13-year-old self. Does it count if I never use the word “relationship”?
http://www.crazymonkeygurls.com/hotbloggity/rkives/280
My entry is at http://www.timemakeover.com/articles/nice.php
Thanks, I had fun writing this one.
This was fun — since my blog is about writing and personal productivity/development, I explored ways to get your readers to “relate” to your writing more meaningfully.
Here’s the link:
http://writingpower.net/2008/02/21/building-relationships-with-your-readers/
Cheers!
Loren
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Well I am a day late and a dollar short on this one I just found the post,after the contest is over of course. :) I have been wanting to get SmartDraw for a while now, I tried the free trial a while back and it was incredible. I use Venn diagrams and graphic organizers for work all of the time, love them. Oh well, guess I will have to wait the next contest to roll around.
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