Live Intentionally

Take a look at this video featuring the some of the greatest “failures” of all time.

Do you want to face the challenges of the day with confidence and enthusiasm? If so, try talking to yourself like the 3 year old girl in this video.

Beyond a to-do list and daily priorities list, scheduling tasks can help you become much more productive. Here’s how and why.

A to-do list is better than nothing, but it has a number of deficiencies.

It’s Day 6 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today we’re looking at blogging tips. Here are 7 that are good tips for life as well as blogging.

Media is everywhere. It’s powerful. It can inform, educate, and inspire. Is the media and music you consume taking you in the right direction? Plus another chance to win a free copy of Worldliness.

Thanks to Crossway Books, I’m giving away 5 copies of Worldliness over the next two weeks. Worldliness by C.J. Mahaney is a book written to challenge Christians with the words of Jesus in John 2:15 – “Do not love the world or anything in the world.”

Earlier this week Brad Ruggles posted this funny video, How to Report the News, to his blog. In it, Charlie Brooker describes and takes shots at the formula a lot of TV news stories follow. Have a look.

Michael Hyatt had a fantastic post last week titled How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick in which he pointed out the difference between good resolutions and bad resolutions using a nifty little acronym. It’s so good I’m just going to pilfer it for your benefit.

Good resolutions are S.M.A.R.T.:

The world we live in is rapidly changing. We have more choices than ever before. We have more options for how we spend our time, how we spend our money, the media we consume, and the people we interact with. We are also more connected than ever before through Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, and smart phones.

In many ways, these are good developments.

But they can also make it very difficult to live the kind of life we want to live. A life that’s productive. A life full of rich relationships and experiences.