Bobby Chiu on doing positive things in life.

The Human Calendar, created by Craig Giffen is an offshoot of the Human Clock project, that uses pictures of human beings to represent calendar date.

A presentation on the seven habits of highly effective people.

ScrnShots is a site to share screen captures of web and screen based design. The screen shots are supposed to generate discussion that designers could use to improve their work or as inspiration for new work.

Examples of screen shots on the site:

Wordle creates a word cloud based on text that you submit. Paste in a poem, an article, a song,a URL or an RSS feed, your del.icio.us username, and watch the magic happen. etc. as it creates text based artwork.

These are wordles based on the Achieving Full Potential part 1 article, the site mission and a poem.

Think Differently!

The problem is not the problem, it's how you think about the problem. If you focus on negatives and obstacles then your life will be filled with challenges and obstacles and you won't be thinking about solutions. Problems do not exist without solutions, within every problem is a solution. A problem cannot exist with a solution. You can't focus on obstacles or worries because doing that does not fix anything, you have to change your frame of mind about how you approach challenges.

The Productivity Portfolio has a great article about how to use RSS feeds in your job search. Our favorite site mentioned in the article is indeed.com. The article author recommends Google reader as an online web based RSS reader but we prefer Bloglines instead.

Although ZTD is a much simpler system than GTD, the basics are the same. Zenhabits has a very long list of GTD resources that will be valuable to anyone using the original GTD system or one of its variants. You can also adapt the tips and tricks mentioned in the resources to ZTD or your own customized productivity system.

A WHACK ON THE SIDE OF THE HEAD: How You Can Be More Creative author: Roger von Oech asin: 0446674559

Creative Whack Pack author: Roger Von Oech asin: 0880793589

A Whack On the Side of the Head author: Roger Von Oech asin: 0911121005

Roger von Oech's Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Tool for Innovators author: Roger Von Oech asin: 0911121013

Innovative Whack Pack author: Roger Von Oech asin: 157281442X

Mark McGuinness of the Wishful Thinking blog has posted an interview with Roger von Oech - "25 Years of Creative Whacks - An Interview with Roger von Oech" - the author of A Whack on the Side of the Head, and other books on creativity.

VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images,
documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.