How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes

My friend Eric Kim at Twylah shared this most excellent TEDTalk with me yesterday. Watch it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vVsXO9brK7M Here are the 5 questions that Adam Leipzig offers... What do you think? Helpful? Overly simplistic? Tell me... Here's a bonus list of my 'on purpose' videos... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTZMTV28QO8&list=PL-MNbC9qmAMAo8uV7nCehM68BARcqUn7X Related articles Searching for a Purpose (rcarterphoto.wordpress.com) Ted Talk Exercise with … Continue reading How to Know Your Life Purpose in 5 Minutes

Feedly mobile is fixed!

...and everything is right in my 'Personal News Aggregation' universe. For about a week, I was having problems syncing my accounts on feedly and Google Reader and it was really frustrating -- especially since it has always worked so well in the past. As you can see, however, my desktop version... ...is the same as … Continue reading Feedly mobile is fixed!

How I apply David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ to social media and ‘thought leadership’ marketing…

When I'm teaching social media, I don't spend a lot of time talking about whether or not social media works for lead generation or thought leadership — that's been pretty well established at this point. I usually start out my classes by saying that the single most important issue in social media today — especially … Continue reading How I apply David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ to social media and ‘thought leadership’ marketing…

How to Be Fascinating

Marie Forleo writes: Do you ever wonder what makes certain people captivating, and others…Not so much?Often, it has nothing to do with someone’s age, looks or even talent, but rather an innate ability to get and keep other people’s attention.Kind of like an “it factor.”Now what if I said that you have this certain “it … Continue reading How to Be Fascinating

@Nilofer Merchant on ‘Onlyness’

Later today at 13:00 Chicago time, I'll be interviewing author Nilofer Merchant on the topic of 'onlyness'. What is it? In her book 11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era, she writes: Celebrate onlyness. The foundational element starts with celebrating each human and, more specifically, something I’ve termed onlyness. Onlyness is that thing … Continue reading @Nilofer Merchant on ‘Onlyness’

Choices…

Christine Hassler writes: As much as you may want it, you don’t have 100% control over your life. In fact, control is an illusion.  But what you do have is CHOICE and that’s awesome.Our inner and outer choices influence our reality more than anything else. That’s why the choices you make are incredibly important! So … Continue reading Choices…

5 Things To Stop Doing If You Want To Be Happy Now

The World Health Organization estimates that about 121 million people worldwide have some form of depression; whether it lasts a couple of minutes, or through many years of your life, chances are we've all experienced some form of depression, and it's never any fun.  As a self-help author and travel writer, I've seen similarities in … Continue reading 5 Things To Stop Doing If You Want To Be Happy Now