Luciano at LiteMind has a great idea: Simply submit your *best* personal excellence tip!  The person with the best tip can win up to $449USD in prizes.  This was actually a very tough exercise.   It was hard to pick one single tip that rises above the rest.  But, I did it and submitted my result.  The deadline for submission is tomorrow, the final posts will be presented on 12/1, votes will be cast by 12/8, and the winner will be announced by 12/10.
I had at least 5-6 ideas on what …

There has been a lot of buzz lately surround Mindjet’s latest release of their flagship product: MindManager v8. For a great review and highlight of the new features, check out Chuck Frey’s review. I haven’t had the opportunity to review the latest version yet, but from what I’ve read there are a lot of great new features..
The one feature that I’m especially pleased (ok, very excited) about is the ability to export your mindmap and share via their flash player. For quite a while, I’ve been advocating …

It’s been over a month, and I’m finally spending more time getting plugged back into the good ole’ blogosphere. I spent some time last night catching up on some of my favorite blogs, and was pleasantly surprised to find a great article (posted a few weeks ago) on LiteMind - How to be Great: Rising Above the Talent Myth. Here’s an excerpt:
“A genius! For 37 years I’ve practiced fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!” –Pablo Sarasate (Spanish violinist)

Think of the greatest …

http://www.worldhistory-poster.com/en/
Over the last couple years, I’ve collected links to a number of sites that offer timeline-based browsing and thought I would share. Many of these sites are quite helpful for a number of areas of research, and help put many events into context and historical perspective:
From Cave Paintings to the Internet (Formerly From Gutenberg to the Internet)
http://historyofscience.com/G2I/timeline/
Timeline Index
http://www.timelineindex.com/content/home.php
World History Timeline Poster (Amazing)
http://www.worldhistory-poster.com/en/
Adventures in Philosophy: History of Philosophy Timeline
http://radicalacademy.com/diahistphil.htm