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Franklin Covey sells agendas and datebooks with pages that have stupid little motivational quotes and means to plan out one's entire life. An entire life can now be planned on a slip of paper that is 3 by 7 inches.

Sample question:
"What is one improvement that you could make in your professional life?"
Sample answer: one improvement - have a professional life

It also...
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The only book I can't stand are how-to write books books. This intolerance also includes the Bible.

It's comforting to know there has not been a genuinely original thought in several thousand years.

I read somewhere that not every journal entry is worhy of a film. This makes me feel somewhat bad for vloggers. Or the fact that our langage allows a word such as...
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Whenever I consider the magnitude that my next project should take, I always spend a half hour of my life re-reading an essay by Jonathan Franzen. This essay has been re-titled three times or so, going from "Perchance to Dream" to "The Harper's Essay" before it finally came to the entirely sensible "Why Bother?" by the time it was published in his collection "How to...
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Honda has been developing a robot for the past few years now. They call it "Asimo" (pronounced "Awesome-o").

This thing kind of scares me. It can probably do more things than I can. And with much better precision.

And, it has a cooler name than I do.

I left my apartment about nine times today. I would feel super accomplished except that I don't think I actually did anything. I do remember driving around for twenty minutes after jump-starting my car to look for a place that would replace my battery.

Apparently, in this country, it is against general mores to sell an honest man a battery on a Sunday.

Now, it...
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I woke up this morning to a dead battery. This made me realize how behind things I really am.

I am probably the only person I know that owns a car that is more than two years old.

My car does not define who I am, but I just love the damn thing.