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Tech Review: White Noise Machines. Your Savior in a Distracting World.

I get distracted very easily when I'm trying to read or write. Maybe there's something out there that can help drown out life's disturbances. No, it's not earplugs. It's a tool that could help you concentrate by eliminating background noise, especially helpful while you're trying to read or write. It's called a white noise machine, which can also be useful for drowning out your

A.D.D. & O.C.D. Can They be Helped by a W.N.M?

Okay, I made that last acronym up. Regarding this post, it stands for White Noise Machine. No, it's not the name of an up and coming grunge band. It's a tool that could help you concentrate when you are trying to drown out background noise while you're trying to read or write. As an added bonus, you can also use one for helping you drown out your neighbor's motorcycle tuning, which for

Leaders Write Goals

A leader is a writer. A leader doesn't always publish what they write, but they do write. The biggest challenge is being someone who can clearly write down information, or ideas. Not only goals, but the vision of what they want. A writer can make plans, but the best ones write them down. The same is true with leaders. What would be a good goal for a leader? 1) Have a strong mental

Book Review: All In by Arlene Dickinson

I've wanted to be in business for myself for a few years now, however, every idea that I imagined didn't seem like the right one. But in the past few months landing the job of reviewer, first of Tech and then books, on this website has fulfilled what I have been looking for.When I decided to leave my full time job of ten years my family was behind me 100%, with one exception, I had to be

Leaders Research

Research and leadership go hand in hand. Research is vital for success at any level. I could not explain how important it is until I did more of it, and learned from the experiences. To survive on the Internet you need to know what to do, and when to do it, and why it should be done. People need some guidance to some extent, but there is always room to grow. Leaders have the ability to do

Tech Review: Even Kelsey Grammer Needs to Double Check His Grammar

Oops, mistakes happen Spell checkers are great and all for catching any spelling errors or that you left the apostrophes out, but it may not have noticed during the fifth proof reading of your document (I personally re-read what I have typed several times, with the hopes of catching any mistakes before I release my words out into the wilds of the internet). As helpful as that spell

Book Review: At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

I am a huge fan of Downton Abbey. The characters (Maggie Smith is by far an acting genius and I'm glad that she is still acting), the way they speak and the clothes of the era. When I first started reading At the Water's Edge, by Sara Gruen, the first chapter made me very sad. If I tell you why, I'll give away some of the plot from later in the book, so I will skip to chapter 2 where

Leadership, Passion and Hope

Leadership is the force that moves someone to make, or create something better than right now. Leaders don't worry about the challenges so much as they learn from them, and then go from there. There will be challenges, perhaps someone will wonder if you can lead a group of people or be passionate about what you're doing. There is an element of hope in a leader, the hope they make or

Book Review: Very Good Lives by J.K. Rowling

With graduation coming for hundreds of thousands of students, what to give the future generation as inspiration, has been stale for a few years.Oh The Places You Will Go, by Dr. Seuss, is the go to book that all parents, grandparents and extended family give the young graduate (along with money). But what if there was something more meaningful and inspiring? A book that is more

Thinking Marketing? Think Again

Marketing, and how fast you can do it is the type of thinking that will have most people finding themselves in trouble. Part of it comes from how they see themselves: as people who write to make money online, or affiliate marketers, but they are wrong. They are self-publishers, and they publish articles online to potentially millions of readers. This mentality is fine, except that they are a