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Tim Sanders offers the following “refreshment plan” for your summer:

1. Take at least one week off before Labor Day (if you have it available). Don’t sit around the house, go somewhere where nature will convince you forget about the world.

2. Don’t take your laptop with you on the trip. Carry your cell phone, but give strict instructs that you are only to be bothered with an emergency. Only check your email once every two days.

3. Take a full weekend day off for the rest of the year. Don’t check email or even think about work.

4. Devote one hour a day to exercise and self-education.

Read a compelling story on why you should do this at: Sanders Says: Take a break driver 8

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   Lifehacker is reporting that the “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” is avaible
   for free download at Audible.com. This is worth checking out.

In his blog, Dennis Snow points to an article that is worth more than a couple of read-throughs, because if you are honest with yourself, you’ll probably come away convicted. As a leader at work, in the community or as a parent (now there I go, getting personal), what are you permitting and therefore promoting? And the even tougher follow-up question…. “Why?”.

What You Permit, You Promote « Sharing thoughts, ideas and suggestions on hardwiring success

Leadership is a choice | The Practice of Leadership

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

As people we are designed to choose. Like many other things in life, leadership too is a choice we make. . We do not become great leaders because of our title or position. Leadership is about making the decision and taking the responsibility to bring our future into the present. This first step to becoming an effective leader… it is the choice to be proactive.

The question is “have we make the choice to lead?” Although you may think of yourself as a leader, until you choose leadership you will find yourself drifting around aimlessly. Lacking passion, commitment, courage and direction.

Read the full article at The Practice of Leadership

It’s hard to force yourself to sit down and write down your goals. Doing this means you actually have to THINK about them and face the hard facts about your current efforts (or lack thereof) to reach them. It also means that you have to carve-out the time to do this in a schedule that seems way too busy for this type of exercise. But the only thing harder than writing down your goals is trying to achieve them without writing them down.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.
-Zig Ziglar

The following post at Lifehacker discusses this, centering around the following points:

• Goals mean you’re trying to be better
• Writing things down makes them happen
• Written goals make time for big thinking upfront
• Written goals give you hyper-focus and clarity
• Written goals make it easy to cut the crap
• Written goals prepare you for the best and the worst

Read the details on the above points at Lifehacker.com