Welcome back! It's good to see you again. Please note that I am now publishing all new material at my hub site: StephenPSmith.com

From Stepcase Lifehack:

Stepcase Lifehack is partnering up with Moleskine and Hong Kong retailer city’super/LOG-ON to give you a chance to show us – and the world – what you can do with a Moleskine notebook. Moleskines are the notebook of choice for creative professionals around the world, and have become a symbol of latter-day nomadism – nobody carrying a Moleskine is ever without a place to capture their most brilliant thoughts!

To celebrate the intimate relationship between lifehacking digital nomads and the Moleskine notebook, Moleskine, Stepcase Lifehack, and city’super/LOG-ON invite you to enter the My Moleskine 2.0 competition. My Moleskine 2.0 is devoted to giving tips and tricks to improve your quality of life by automating, increasing productivity and organising.

Share your ideas, be selected for an innovative exhibition, and win a lifetime supply of Moleskine notebooks!

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I have a new post up at Work.Life.Creativity:

I have a 24″ x 36″ whiteboard hanging on the wall in my office that I use for brainstorming ideas and capturing concepts.

I love it for a variety of reasons, but primarily because it is so easy to edit. Try something, draw something, write something - if you don’t like it you can erase it and try again.

Read more –>

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I have a new post at work.life.creativity:

Scott Ginsburg has a great column in the latest newsletter from Jeffrey Gitomer. In the article he discusses a double-handful of ways that you can make someone feel important, valued, and needed. These are, of course, important ways to develop and enhance your relationship with your team at work, even your family and friends.

I was struck by three of these tips, involving the use of notes:

3. Take notes. Taking notes is proof. Taking notes keeps you mindful in the conversation. Taking notes honors someone’s thoughts. Taking notes is respectful. Taking notes increases someone’s self-esteem. Not to mention, if you don’t write it down, it never happened. Do you carry a notebook or jotter with you at all times?

Read more Note-taking and Relationships >>

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…with the encouragement of Olivier Blanchard, Stephen Smith [hey, that’s me! Thanks Gavin!] and Steve Woodruff, Gavin has decided to start a new series of link-posts: A Cup of Chaos

Inspired by the Five in the Morning series so well put-together by Steve Woodruff (check out his new site, by the way), I [Gavin, that is, ed.] was chatting with Amber Naslund about the ready abundance of online material that is of interest, but not necessarily relevant to our work (or even private) lives. Sometimes it is this small cup of chaos that delivers a dose of randomness into our otherwise ordered lives that changes the way we see things.

Their first post will be up Monday, check it out.

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