The community was not happy when Rick Krial moved his porn business into Staunton 18 months ago. Distressed citizens called and asked if the Republicans could do something ... they knew we had organized and won the Weekday Religious Education issue in 2005 and Marriage Amendment issue in 2006. Under...

If you want to understand personal productivity, you’ve got to understand the concept of momentum. For all the organizing systems in the world and early rising skills in your time zone, you’ll only ever get so much done without bringing momentum into play. Some people say the purpose of producti...

What's your favorite way of stimulating your creative juices? How do you inspire yourself? I don't usually get up at 2 a.m. and work, but when work's creative it's more like play, so why not? Here's two good posts to read and then I'll tell you why these two writers, Sean D'Souza and John Jantsch, a...

But how do you decide what “important” is? Sometimes the important stuff is nothing but a collection of individually unimportant things. Sometimes I have a hard time not caring about unimportant things. via How to Create Space and When You’re Always in a Rush | Zen Habits . Copyright ...

By Paul Goddard "The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests, and his own, are the same" (Henri-Marie Beyle). On July 24, 1923, Nicholas Brodie Hardeman and Ira Arthur Douthitt stood between the mountains of Ebal and Gerizim, west of the Jordan River. Douthitt described thei...

In my first post in this series , I discussed the steps I had begun to take in putting my GTD system back in order. I started by outlining my life at the moment (especially my Areas of Focus”) and sketching out a vision of myself in 3-5 years. The next step in my return to an orthodox GTD syst...

Well, our revival of The Garlic's Weekly Poll was met with news that, well, let's just say it wasn't a rounding endorsement for taking a seat on Obama's new Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry; Auto team drives imports ...Fed task force has few new U.S. cars The vehicles owned by the Obama ...

Tasks Written in Easy to Read Fonts Are More Likely to be Completed The next time you jot out a set of instructions or tasks for someone to follow, keep in mind that the choice of fonts might well determine if that job gets done or not. The researchers at University of Michigan gave students written...

Inter-departmental memo Elder's HQ To: Internal Security mgr.Fm: Hasbarah dept mgr.CC: Inhuman Resources dept. mgr.Date: _____________ Subject: Sensitive information leakage. Yigal, It will be a short one this time, just take a look at this: I have only two points to make on the above: Did I or didn...

It’s become a truism that our interactions with technology are changing the way we think and act. But the big question is how exactly we’re being changed. Some say it’s evolving us into higher functioning humans, while others claim our hyper-multitasking and reliance on technology ...