Archive for September, 2007

Review: Getting Things Done, by David Allen

29Sep07
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What it is: Getting Things Done, or “GTD” to the converted, is a breakdown of how to clear out space for doing the things you really want to do. The nutshell is that we all carry around lots of “todo”s and “todosomeday”s in our heads, and Allen drops a whole slew of common-sense techniques [...]

Review: The Pleasure Course

29Sep07
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Location: San Francisco, CAWhat it is: This is a 3 day course designed to help people have more pleasure, and fulfillment in all aspects of their life, with an emphasis on their intimate relationships.
Growth Potential: During the pleasure course, you will have a chance to look inward and identify what it is that makes [...]

Conscious Bookkeeping

21Sep07
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What it is: Individual financial coaching with Joetta Johnson of Conscious Bookkeeping. Conscious Bookkeeping coaches don’t tell you how to make money or how to invest it; they actually help you CHANGE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO MONEY so it’s easier for you to make it and you know what do with it once you have [...]

Review: The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferriss

15Sep07
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What it is: The 4 Hour Workweek is a book about designing your lifestyle to inform your job as opposed to your job informing your lifestyle. It outlines strategies for delegating, streamling and outsourcing tasks (yes to India or China) to free up time and stress so that you can do the things you [...]

Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity

10Sep07
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What it is: This book provides an easy-to-use template for thinking through what kind of a person is your “perfect customer” and even more importantly, how you might attract that “perfect customer” into your life. And even though they use the word “customer,” it’s really about attracting whatever you want into your life: the [...]

National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Southwest

07Sep07
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Location: Arizona, New Mexico, TexasWhat it is: NOLS (the National Outdoor Leadership School) is a wilderness-based education program. During the course of a program (which range from 7 days to a full-semester), students learn leadership skills, learning styles, personal assessment techniques, and outdoor skills, of course. Not everyone’s journey is as extreme as this [...]

Review: The Authentic Man Program

06Sep07
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Location: SOMA/Mission district of San Francisco, CAWhat it is: The Authentic Man Program (AMP) presents an opportunity for you, or any man, to get really curious about who he is. This course gave me the tools to feel and understand that the way other people experience me is different, sometimes drastically, from the way I [...]