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This is Liz and Dan, co-founders of Liz Lovely. Just wanted to thank you all for the feedback and kind words over the last couple days. We've been overwhelmed with your encouragement and support, and it just reinforces that we're on the right track.
Congratulations to all the winners, and happy Valentine's Day!
--Liz and Dan Holtz
Since it includes both chocolate and managing information overload for business owners - seems to fit right in here.
Thnx for being there and doing what you're doing.
It helps.
Keep up the Good Love on this great Day of many,
Kim
I can't thank you enough for changing my life. Keep up the good work.
1) Awesome book and blog. As the business columnist for Indiana University I have promoted your book many times and personally got 15 friends to buy it. Get this, I got a professor to incorporate your book into his curriculum!
2) I need your help. I am in a battle with the IU administration over my proposal to a university wide financial planning : http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=48913....
I need a big time endorsement from someone like yourself. Read it, if you agree with it we would love your endorsement. This has turned into a student movement here and we want to get it pushed through.
HINT: A blog post about it would be very helpful!
Either way, I love your stuff, I incorporate it every day and it has been a great influence in my life. Respect and thanks for everything.
David Weisburd
P.S. Once in a while I see a critical comment that is almost always retarded and unfounded. Don't let these idiots bring you down and if you choose to delete it I will not mind!
just wanted to wish you a happy valentine's day. I hope your day has been good!
As I want to make sure that you're not "only" getting man-crushes - even if that sounds terrific and fantatic in every way - I'm sending a "I think you're really cool and interesting, keep up the good work and take care!!!"-crush-hug thing instead:)
You would of course get a real hug instead, but as I find it improbable that you're in Sweden at the moment, that will have to wait. Anyway, I think you get the point!
All the best, Isabelle
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Thank you, Isabelle! Are you Swedish? Swedish and Norwegian girls make me weak in the knees :)
Happy Valentine's Day,
Tim
Cheers
Jose Castro-Frenzel
I totally agree that a class in financial literacy should be made part of the core curriculum. Feel free to quote that if it helps. What good is educating students and putting them in a world that requires financial literacy if they're not prepared? FYI, your link includes a period and thus turns up as an error. Here it is for others:
http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=48913...
@All
Happy Valentine's Day! :)
Tim
My question of the hour is the following:
You stated in a past interview that you don't work from home. I can understand this completely, but I am a bit confused and curious where do you get your stuff done when you are at home? Do you recommend a local cafe, i.e. starbucks?
I think this has never been mentioned, I was always baffled as to what is your "office" when home.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Siempre,
Jose Castro-Frenzel
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Hi Jose,
If I have to get things done at home, like paperwork, filing, etc., or just some form of work, I have a bedroom upstairs that I converted into an office. All of my business books (visual cues that put me in work mindset) are limited to this room as well.
Hope that helps,
Tim
I've got a terrific interview of you by Steve Harrison. Toward the end of the CD, you promise his audience an audio of another interview (by Jack Canfield)if they purchase five or more copies of your book from BN.com.
I've twice sent the receipt showing my purchase of five books and haven't received the audio or any reply from you. I've repeatedly checked the accuracy of your email address in my 'sent' box, so I know that's not the problem.
I'm going to have to send four of these copies back to BN.com if I don't get the audio. I'm sure you can understand that. However, I'd much prefer to get the audio I was promised and give my extra copies of your book out to people who I think would enjoy them. Thanks!
Scott
Signing out From NYC,
Jose Castro-Frenzel
What im talking about is my time, business situation, and my personal life. I think my personal life has started to loose to my business life. Now I spend more time thinking about ways to improve my situation that i realize im spending to much time.
I believe, however, I will get it at some point. Now more than ever I find myself always thinking, planning and pondering what I can do next. I guess not everything works for everyone but thats no excuse to give up!
Nice post, one from your book that has helped me out greatly put your daily to-do list on a 1/4th piece of paper. Stick to it and thats it. Make it your goal to make that list shorter every day. Find ways to remove things from the list, find out if everything on the list is really useful or if there is away to automate or alleviate.
Long post...
Hilarious video. LOL, I'll bet he jumped six and nine-tenth inches! <-- guess where that quote's from?
I'm making my way through your book, and there was a part in there refering to financing an expensive car. I've been toying with the idea of buying a car on credit card. However, I'm scared that if I kept buying stuff on credit or financed, what'll happen when I die with huge unpaid balances?
You're my inspiration!
Dr J
seems you and I have same taste in wp themes. Oh well, I plan to do some cosmetic upgrades soon to my stock theme.
Regarding your concern about spending too much time trying to save time; what worked for me was to give it some time. For me, it took me about 72 hours to decide on a sustainable GTD system. Those 3 days were terribly unproductive. If my boss found out I wasted 3 work days fiddling with outlook and notepads... I dunno..he'd boot me in the ass.
But it was time well spent. I now have a system I trust and use all the time and have been for about 6 months. I can't say how long I'll stick with it, but I can say that without my GTD system, I'm lost. Same goes for all habit/behavior altering exercises. You will have to take a step backwards before going forward.
OK, make me a believer. I have lost a business and everything that I ever had to divorce. I have borderline horrible credit because of the bankruptcy following said divorce and have absoluetly no savings. I make 90k but cannot get a credit card with a limited over $1000. I was forced to move back in with my parents (at 36 years old) and have just learned that my fiance' and I are expecting our fourth child (she has two of her own and I have a son of my own). I am a Black man in desperate need of adequate housing and residual income (and finding it impossible to find both) to give my family the life they deserve. Make me a believer when there is so little left to believe in. Thank you.
I spent most of last year waiting on a heart transplant, which I received on 10/26/07 (my wife's birthday, no less). While I was home waiting on the call, I read your book and was inspired to find some sort of business that I could create and run from my sickbed if need be. I ended up inventing a new logic puzzle game (Trizm Puzzles), similar to Sudoku, but using triangles and vibrant colors instead of drab, black and white squares. I have published a book and setup a website to promote the puzzle. I plan on earmarking 50% of any profits I make on the puzzle company for charitable causes primarily related to heart failure, sarcoidosis, transplants, and organ donation. I would love to tell you my whole story some time, it is fairly interesting (it will become much more interesting if Trizm's become as popular as Sudoku!)
Andy
Your book has helped me tremendously
with my attitude towards business.
Keep up the good work.
David Collier
Hi Tim,
(yes I am trying to reduce the info! but with what remains...) I think CRM's and project management software is important for any entrepreneur with multiple projects or employees. I've tried a bunch I'm not happy with. Just going to test Basecamp and Highrise now. I searched your blog for related terms and didn't find anything.
Remember the survey on OUTSOURCING SERVICES you did? It sucked! ;) If you do one for contact managers we need a thumbs up/down vote... not just thumbs up! Maybe we could redo that one too while we're at it.
Thanks Tim!
p.s.
I just bought a fresh copy of the book (for PBJ) and i'm having many "repiphanies" and getting even more out of it than when I first read it. My wife and I decided that we are going to start the traveling lifestyle end of March. ...and we have a 5 month old boy! So I'm doing a hardcore revamp of my online businesses to get them more automated and getting some better quality virtual help. Will I see you at SXSW? I'm 87% sure I'm going.
No e-mails, please. I'm trying to work
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Shawn, EXCELLENT find! Thank you for pointing this great article out. I'll link it in an upcoming post, as it looks like the national backlash is moments from unfolding :)
Tim
Its always good to find new ways to beat Information Overload... cutting the RSS feed seems to be the only way!
Anyway is there a reason why you have two themes in every post? Why not just have two posts?
I like some of your posts, enough to want to del.icio.us them, but generally dont as the second half was not informative enough..
MAybe its for us to read something slightly different after your post... that qould be quite clever!
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This is something I've been fighting with and will poll all readers soon. I guess I feel that I don't want to clutter people's RSS or e-mail with separate posts just to make announcements, so I append them at the end of posts (a la "(Plus: Competition Winners)"). Thank you for reminding me to poll everyone!
Tim
Just wanted to says thanks...I did a Liz Lovely painting (see link above) and thanks to you post today;
Wonderful good things ....I appreciate the introduction.
All best,
Jan
Roman Peters
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Thank you, Isabelle! Are you Swedish? Swedish and Norwegian girls make me weak in the knees :)
Happy Valentine’s Day,
Tim
My response:
Damnit! Look here you need to get over your love of Norwegian and Swedish girls. But just in case you can't...I'm a Norwegian girl dipped in Chocolate... and blond wigs are on sale at Costco. :-) LOL Okay, I need get my butt off the internet. I hope you find your Norwegian/Swedish princess. BTW, I love your site lots of gems of information hidden in the old posts. Later