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Today’s note: “Dare to dream big.”

Small, incremental changes can have an enormous impact on large systems. Do not be afraid of changing the world!

Do you have a great idea? Set an appointment with yourself to sit down with a pen and paper and think about what might happen if you took that idea to the next level. Then Do it.

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Liz Strauss, the editor of Successful Blog and a major inspiration in my life and work, has a group writing project running this week.

Distill your words of wisdom

Liz found some thoughts that she had captured at different points in her life, and each was expressed in poetic sentences of 25 words. Inspired, Liz is reaching out to her community to invite us to find our own 25-word expression.

This is my contribution:

work when you work

live when you live

balance them carefully

the science: knowing the difference between the two

the art: knowing when to stop

Thank you Liz, for giving me a chance to participate and a reason to really think about what I am doing, and why I am here.

Have a great weekend, all. I am going to go spend some time with the lovely bride.

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I can definitely relate to this post by Jay Fleischman - I Do Not Have A Home Office. I generally work at any hour, in whatever location I happen to be in. As long as I have my bag of tricks and a place to sit, I can do something for work: read a book for a review, write a post or two, and if I have the internet I can of course hit Twitter or read my RSS Feeds.

This is what Jay says about offices and self-employment:

We choose to have an office so that we may have a work-life balance. But self-employed professionals and knowledge workers do not have a work-life balance; their work is their life, and their life is a part of their work. It’s like saying you have an “eating-digesting balance;” sometimes you eat, sometimes you digest. but it’s all part of the same organic whole, the yin-yang that makes up who you are.

Richard Kershaw has some thoughts on this topic as well, including a list of the tools and methods that he employs when going mobile:

Like many self-employed geeks, working remotely is pretty straightforward. Forgive the cliche: the hard part is deciding to do it. …Since I arrived in Berlin last week, I thought I’d give the lowdown on my mobile office.

Do you work from home, or a “mobile” location? Are you non-virtual too?

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In our busy, busy lives we have all sorts of inputs and stimuli coming our way. Hour by hour, and increasingly minute by minute, our task lists grow longer. The number one cause of stress in our lives is having 2 different things to do and not knowing which we should get started on first.

If you know the answer to this already, you can stop reading. Get on with it already and have a great day. For the rest of you who might like a little advice, read on.

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