Posted on Tuesday, 5th July 2011 by chrisjones

Day 5 is underway of the #blessing experiment on Twitter (I don’t use my phone much on weekends, so no tweets, really), and it’s continuing to have interesting effects.  For those interested and tweet-able, I’m @cjlehi; follow me at your own risk. One of the things that has occurred to me about this is that [...]

Tags: bless, blessings, gratitude, persistence, Twitter
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Posted on Tuesday, 28th June 2011 by chrisjones

I’ve posted before on being positive, on being cheerful, even (although my tag cloud doesn’t think so – I have stuff on work and discipline and perseverance, but the word “happiness” does not appear, which probably ought to tell me something), and controlling my responses to the daily load of crap that happens to me, [...]

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Posted on Friday, 17th July 2009 by chrisjones

I only address this topic because I can’t find a lot of good commentary out there about this specific subject.  I’m also no great expert; my experience with social media is pretty small compared to the Great Lords of Twitter and the Ancient Kings of Facebook.  I confess this. On the other hand, since according [...]

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Posted on Monday, 29th June 2009 by chrisjones

It’s the name.  Really.  Twitter is doomed because it has a lame name.  Twitter?  Tweets?  Tweeters? Silly. Let me parenthetically add that I love Twitter, permanently have TweetDeck open and running, tweet about 10-15 times a day, and have met some of the most interesting and affable people in the world thanks to this great [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 25th June 2009 by chrisjones

@TylerOsby asked a question this morning on Twitter – “how long do you work every day?”  Apropos of this, I also read an article this morning by Tim Ferriss, who wrote The 4-Hour Work Week, about how he works, um, 4 hours a week.  Obviously.  But anyway, what I found was that I could not [...]

Tags: balance, Twitter, Work
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