Posts Tagged ‘consumption’

How You’re Ruining Christmas – And What You Can Do to Save It

You’re ruining Christmas.Not for me – how could you ruin it for me? No, you’re ruining it for yourself, for your family and friends, for everyone who loves you and who you love in return.You started in August, when you saw the first little corner of the Mega-Mart decked out with Christmas bows and dancing Santas. It was just a few little grumbles then, but by Halloween it had… Continue reading

December 18 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: christmas, consumption, family, gift, holiday, materialism | 28 comments»

10 Things in Life That Aren’t Fair — and What to Do About Them (Part 2 of 2)

“If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”– Johnny Carson In Part 1 of this series, I discussed some of the ways that life deals us a bum hand, and some of the ways we can deal with that. In this post, I continue the list, starting with some oddnesses about factors that seem to play as big a role, if not even… Continue reading

September 2 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumption, decision-making, fairness, height, idea, innovation, mind, thinking | 13 comments»

10 Things in Life That Aren’t Fair – and What to Do About Them (Part 1 of 2)

"Who ever said life is fair? Where is that written? Life isn't always fair." – Grandpa, The Princess Bride Life’s not fair. Our thought processes are controlled by brains that are not always strictly rational. Social and economic forces beyond our control can toss us like plastic bags in the wind. Physical appearances play as large a role, if not larger, in the way we regard others – and the way… Continue reading

August 31 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumption, decision-making, fairness, mind, thinking | 17 comments»

Personal Development Lessons from Branding?

The Story of the $800 JeansI recently watched a presentation given by a journalist (Benjamin Wallace) who had taken an extensive look at the way people shop; what they buy, why they buy, how much they spend and why some people are prepared to part with obscene amounts of money for the supposed 'top shelf' versions of every day items (jeans, wine, olive oil, beds, coffee).His talk was essentially an… Continue reading

January 20 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: attitude, brand, branding, consumption, motivation, personal-development, self-help | 16 comments»

Productivity maybe . . . but for what purpose?

Why choices about what to do with the time and effort you save are more critical

One reasonable definition of increased personal productivity is creating the ability to do more with less effort and in a shorter time. Nothing wrong with that — at least until you ask what you will do with the time and effort you have saved.Not so many years ago, many people — including governments and… Continue reading

March 25 2008 | By Adrian | Tagged: consumption, priority, Productivity, time-management | 4 comments»

Blog Action Day: You the Consumer

Today is Blog Action Day, and over 14,000 blogs have agreed to write about the environment. Since I expect there to be hundreds of "how to" articles about making your own household cleaners and cutting your gas consumption, I decided to try something else, to try to address the framework in which we as individuals relate to our environment.

Most of the environmental destruction… Continue reading

October 15 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogactionday, consumption, environment, identity, Lifestyle, sustainable | 43 comments»

Heresy and Progress

We live in world full of pressures to conform: to believe what others tell us is true, to toe the line, to accept the values of those in positions of power, and to follow conventional, approved paths. That's the way to get on in life and business, we are told. You need to fit in, play the game, and avoid rocking any boats.Fitting in and following generally accepted views on… Continue reading

October 9 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, career, civilized-work, consumption, creativity, decision-making, delegation, economics, enjoyment, freedom, happiness, kathy+sierra, leadership, lifebalance, Lifehack, Lifestyle, Management, micro-management, Money, priorities, prioritization, slow-leadership, spending, strategy, stress, success, time, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife | 1 comment»

Date Stamp Your “To Read” Materials

I'm looking at my desk and there's a book sitting on top of the recent Wired magazine, atop two other magazines. I'm looking at my del.icio.us bookmarking, specifically the stuff I didn't have time to read at a specific moment and that I intended to go back and read later. My RSS reader (Bloglines) has a bunch of posts saved to read again later.There's not time to get to… Continue reading

May 17 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: consumption, hack, hacks, Lifehack, Productivity, time | no comments»