Keep On Keepin' On | Seth Godin

Seth Godin often relates some excellent life and business advice on his blog.

These are my favourites:

• Organization vs. movement vs. philosophy. Trouble is when you think you have one but actually have the other.
• Building a job vs. building a business. Building the gig is the gig.
• Interesting & Interested. The two ways one earns attention.
• How to get a job with a small company. The rules are different than trying to get a job with a Fortune 500 company.
• Insulate yourself. ...and other snippets of advice.
• The sad irony of selfishness. The connection economy multiplies the value of what is contributed to it.
• Meeting vs. Making. Making demands results while meeting leaves room for excuses.
• Doing it wrong, relentlessly. Working the system, or not.
• Three masters. Choosing successfully demands consistency in action and goal.
• How to make money online. 21 points that apply to more than just making money, or to making it online.
• How to run a productive meeting. Everyone going to or chairing meetings should read this and take heed.
• The simple power of one a day. Molehills to mountains, with suggestions.

And as an added bonus, here is a fantastic Seth Godin TEDtalk. I recommend watching all three.

keep on keepin' on | December Edition

A small collection of tidbits related to personal development.

Internalizing: What You Are, and What They Say [anc]
Wisdoming Lessons: 10 Life Lessons from a 30-year-old. [dumblittleman]
Onwardly Mobile: 10 things that may be hurting your career. [TechRepublic]
7 Must-Read Success Lessons from Dale Carnegie. [dumblittleman]
Why intelligent people fail. [AcceleratingFuture] [via Kottke]
Do not covet your ideas. [Lifehacker]
Ditch secrecy when vetting ideas. [Lifehacker]
Advice for an aspiring architect, in 1931. [lettersofnote]
Jim Lehrer's Rules for Journalists. [PBSombudsman] [via Kottke]
Career Advice from Hoehn: just DO things. [Hoehn's Musings] [via Kottke]
How to avoid an untimely death. [BodyByScience] [via Kottke]
How to craft your personal business model. [FreelanceSwitch] [via Lifehacker]

keep on keepin' on | Manifesto for Life

from Elements of Style, from La Dolce Vita, from Holstee, commissioned from rachael beresh.

Keep on keepin' on | The Big Round-up

Everybody gets into their own head sometimes, and it can either be enlightening or disheartening. There are plenty of tidbits out there for personal development, for making your life (hopefully) better, for making you (hopefully) a better person.

Let's just start on creativity... there was an article in Scientific American about increasing creativity through the imposition of psychological distance, which Jason Kottke describes well.  It reminds me of an interesting post about "10 keys to leading creative people".

As a book-type person... or... a person who sometimes reads... here's a good one I found from Pickthebrain with 5 ways to improve reading comprehension.

I've always been interested in personality tests, and ran across this note in organization monkey: it's an online personality type tester, called mypersonality.info.

Speaking of organizing, here a cool design idea, that is also frugal: find vintage calendars and re-use them. As a result of the rotation of months and days in a calendar year, old (sorry, "vintage") calendars you find at a garage sale can substitute for that brand-new one you're going to buy at Oscar's in October for $25. [lifehacker]

To some random thoughts: An important factor for one's development is the decision-making process, and Scott Adams over at Dilbert.Com posted a few thoughts on how he makes decisions with incomplete knowledge.  The Atlantic had an article about the Science of Success.
I love lists in sites. Here's something from freestyle minds.
30 habits that will change your life.
And from the "clutter control freak blog", StacksandStacks.com -- 5 ways to slim-line your wardrobe.

Dumb Little Man puts together some fantastic things to think about. And a thing for the number 7. Like these:
7 Pieces of Wisdom from Socrates.
Choose to Spend Time on High Impact Activities.
A 360-degree approach to improving self-confidence.
7 Must-Read Life Lessons from Abraham Lincoln.
The Bare Essentials: Simplifying your life.
How to discover your productivity patterns.
Do you track your achievements?
Are you your own worst (financial) enemy?
10 amazing life lessons you can learn from Albert Einstein.
Amazing life lessons you can learn from Albert Einstein, part deux.
7 amazing lessons from 7 distinguished billionaires.
The 7 most inspirational quotes ever.
7 profound lessons from 7 of our historical leaders.
The golden rule of great leadership.

Zen Habits is another fantastic source of thoughtful items. Like these:
11 Creative Ways to Avoid Becoming a Workaholic.
The best goal is no goal.
12 classic zen habit posts to read.
Letting go of attachments, from A to Zen.

I don't know if Zen Family Habits is a related sister-site, but...

43 simple ways to simplify your life.

Get Rich Slowly is a good spot for financial tips. Like these:
Learning to budget with the JARS system.

And, of course, Lifehacker has a skill for finding interesting personal tips and diluting them into a synopsis of what you'll find at another article of further depth.

Assess your hobbies to free up time.
Make a possibilities calendar to take advantage of unexpected free time.
Use the universal edibility test to find food in a survival situation.
Detect a good liar by knowing their most effective tactics.
Identify less obvious signs you need to get organized.
Banish the miscellaneous category when you're organizing.
Set up a praise folder to track successes.
How to avoid choking under pressure.
The evolutionary reason for depression.
Set up a home recycling station you'll actually use.
Diagnose your personal finances with eight questions.
A top-to-bottom guide to saving money around your house.

And when it's all over: The seven steps to sweet slumber, from the folks at Good. And something to wonder about while you fall into blissful slumber: are you an asker or a guesser?

Keep On Keepin' On | Self-Help Round-up!

Even though The World seems to be quickly sliding into Hell on a variety of transport modes, from handbaskets to Big-Three-Automaker vehicles... it's always important to keep on keepin' on.

Here's a great list of 15 tips designed to save time. (ListVerse)

Chris Hardwick reviews a few popular productivity methods. (wired)

Here are 21 Excellent Web Apps for College Students, though I think there are some very useful ones for everyone. (dumblittleman)

WikiHow explains how to clean a toilet with Coke. I'm not sure how environmentally-sensitive flushing coke into the sewers is, but... must be better than flushing whatever chemicals they use to make regular toilet-cleaners. (wikihow)

Wired has put together an interesting article on what one should pack for The Apocolypse. I was sold when I saw the first thing listed is a still. (wired) For some additional reading, here's a link to the web site for B.C.'s Provincial Emergency Program (PEP) and to Canada's "Get Prepared" site. (getprepared.ca) And here's the site for Vancouver's Emergency Plan. (CoV) Lastly... the Disaster Response Routes. (GovBC)