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Jay Whitenoreply@blogger.com2008-06-06T10:18:16.341-05:006 Things Money Cannot Help you Achieve</h3><content type="html"><div id="write"><h7 class="write">Written on 6/06/2008 by Shilpan Patel of <a href="http://www.successsoul.com/blog/">Success Soul</a>.</h7></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/loritingey/350043329/"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_dH0q9hvpVHg/SElO_a2_mRI/AAAAAAAABz4/Aj7heyMOey4/s320/gates.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208781295479396626" border="0" /></a>Imagine you are Mr. Bill Gates, czar of the wealth. Life is great; you're the richest man on the earth. You can buy anything in life, right? Wrong. Before you ride on the jet of euphoria and focus your entire life on earning money, know there are simply things that a roll of hundred dollar bills cannot get for you, not even if you are Mr. Gates. If you are perplexed, let me explain my theory. It may sound like an oxymoron but money has its <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles%27_heel">Achilles’ heel</a>. All of our false perceptions about money have one common flaw - they identify money as something external to us, they identify money as the tool to accumulate abundance to please others by accumulating possessions. What money can't buy mostly lies within us. Nonetheless, trading our life energy for money can deprive us from inner nourishment that can eventually lead our lives into a downward spiral. 1. Time: Money is a tool for trade. With that said, we spend a good chunk of our allotted time on this earth getting, spending, worrying and fantasizing about money. You can't buy the time and save it in your storeroom even if you are Mr. Gates. On the contrary, money takes away your time that could have been spent playing with your children or having a long walk with your alter ego. When the sun sets, a day goes away from our life forever. No money has power to bring that back to life. 2. Self Awareness: Ignorance is bliss, right? It's a curse. Not having self-awareness and self-consciousness lead to decisions that can cost you dearly. Well, the cost may be life itself. As a result, many people live a mediocre life without living for a true purpose. Their ignorance can't be transmuted into awareness with money. They believe that their ignorance is their awareness. 3. Self esteem: I have a plethora of examples to prove that no money can purchase self-esteem. Self-esteem is earned from within. If you are your worst enemy, gods of money can't rescue you from the self-destruction you inflict on yourself. King of rock Elvis Presley had the best life one can imagine with no dearth of cash. He took his own life with the deprivation of self-esteem. 4. Health: As I write this, I found out that Senator Kennedy has brain cancer, and it is terminal. Of course money can get him the best health care possible but no money can buy insurance for a life. We buy insurance for just about everything including our life but money can never bring life back. 5. Respect: Try this. Slap someone on his face and then hand him $100 to get his respect. Will you get it? I doubt it. We all live our life in pursuit of self-respect from peers, from family members, from our alter ego and even from strangers. No money can buy respect from others if our actions speak volumes about our negativity - insult, rudeness and lack of respect for others. 6. Happiness: This is controversial. Money can buy happiness if it is spent on to bring grater financial security for the family. However, money can't buy happiness if the purpose is to make money to make other people happy. The chase of possession of possessions can never find its destination with incessant desire to accumulate more possessions. Happiness comes from within. When we trade so much time and energy to get money, we deprive our inner self from the food of happiness. I'm sure that you either are nodding you head in disbelief by now, or you've been enlightened by the revelation that, after all, money can't buy some of what matters most in our life. I'll be glad to get a zap or a hug from you. -Shilpan <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9d3562afaf83629455bb159e447e35cb"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9d3562afaf83629455bb159e447e35cb"/></a> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9d3562afaf83629455bb159e447e35cb" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/DumbLittleMan?a=ahxQ4X"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/DumbLittleMan?i=ahxQ4X" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?a=XV3XEi"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?i=XV3XEi" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?a=wdFhli"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?i=wdFhli" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?a=Ut6Sbi"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?i=Ut6Sbi" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?a=QRHtBi"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?i=QRHtBi" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?a=mlQrxI"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/DumbLittleMan?i=mlQrxI" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DumbLittleMan/~4/306177444" height="1" width="1"/></content><author><name>Jay White</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author></entry><entry><updated>2008-06-05T09:11:29.878-05:00</updated><title type="text">8 Useful Tips To Manage And Avoid RSS Overload</h3><content type="html"><div id="write"><h7 class="write">Written on 5/29/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee, of <a href="http://www.jeetblog.com//">Jeet Blog</a>.</h7></div> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/torchondo/493773202/sizes/m/"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_dH0q9hvpVHg/SEfyyf6dnVI/AAAAAAAABzo/DueKVZ8tr_w/s400/rss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208398443451358546" border="0" /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS">RSS</a> is an amazing technology which helps you to read different websites and blogs through your feed reader. It saves you a lot of time because you don't need to visit your favorite blogs everyday if you are subscribed to them in your feed reader. Apart from saving you time, it also brings in a world of information and knowledge and acquaints you with the latest happenings in your fields of interest. And it does all that at one place - your RSS feed reader. However, keeping aside the numerous merits of RSS, it could well be addictive too. Yes, when you subscribe to a huge number of RSS feeds, you could easily end up spending hours everyday just reading feeds. And that's when you conclude that you are a victim of RSS overload and you need to do something about it. So here are those 8 tips which will help you manage your RSS feeds in a better manner and avoid RSS overload. <ol><li>Make a ' Primary ' or ' Everyday ' Folder You may have different folders in your feed reader, but I strongly suggest you to create a folder named 'Primary' or 'Everyday', which will house all those blogs which are your favorites and you have to read them everyday or have to read them first. </li> <li> Make a ' News ' Folder In the list of your favorite blogs/sites, it's possible that you've got NY Times and Techmeme. Put such news feeds in a separate 'News' Folder. DO NOT put them in your primary folder. The news related blogs or websites produce tons of posts everyday and it's better to create a separate folder for them. </li> <li> Use Keyboard Shortcuts Most of the feed readers provide <a href="http://www.keyxl.com/saa533f/207/RSS-keyboard-shortcuts.htm">keyboard shortcuts</a>. I use Google Reader and it has some excellent keyboard shortcuts which help me wade through feeds quickly. So whichever feed reader you use, just make sure you utilize its keyboard shortcuts feature to read feeds at a good pace. </li> <li>Track your time If you think that you are reading too many feeds everyday and are addicted to it, it's better to set a time frame for reading feeds. You should not compromise your other important tasks by spending hours in reading feeds. </li> <li>Create an ' Unread ' Folder If you come across an article which you would like to read word-by-word later, then instead of marking it as unread, transfer it to a folder named 'Unread '. Then you can set a particular time of the day to read the articles in your unread folder. If you just mark them as unread, then chances are you will miss them later due to the ever increasing new items in your feed reader. </li> <li>Mark all as read when required You come back from a vacation and find 1,000+ articles in reader. What do you do ? Start reading them? I think it's better to mark all of them as read because there are simply too many to read. However before you do that, read the next point. </li> <li>Search Before you mark all the feeds as read, you could always search for some specific terms or keywords in your feed reader and get acquainted with the latest happenings in your fields of interest. Most of the feed readers like Google Reader and FeedDemon have nice search features and help you to search through feeds easily. </li> <li>Analyze once in a while We come across new blogs, like them and add them to our feed reader. Thats what RSS is for, but once in a while you should also analyze your feed reading habits and check which feeds you are paying attention to and what you need to get rid of. This again depends on your feed reader and what kind of analysis tools it provides. For example <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/Default.aspx">FeedDemon</a> has a Reports feature and <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a> provides Trends. <a href="http://www.jeetblog.com/using-trends-in-google-reader-to-manage-rss-overload/">Here is an article</a> which explains how to use the trends feature in Google Reader to manage RSS overload.</li></ol>I hope the aforementioned tips help you to manage your RSS feed reading habits in a better and effective manner. -Abhijeet <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=5641a0bb6c9fc34638e703e7b5a48e0f" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=5641a0bb6c9fc34638e703e7b5a48e0f" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/DumbLittleMan?a=7nkAr4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/DumbLittleMan?i=7nkAr4" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=66b2c05330304248a29f2f3cb0c4f3b6&u=%%UNIQUEID%%"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=66b2c05330304248a29f2f3cb0c4f3b6&u=%%UNIQUEID%%" border="0"/></a> </td></tr> <td> <a href="/dmoz/"> Top</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/Arts/"> Arts</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/Business/"> Business</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/Computers/"> Computers</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/Games/"> Games</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/Health/"> Health</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/Kids_and_Teens/"> Kids</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/News/"> News</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Recreation/"> Recreation</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Reference/"> Reference</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Regional/"> Regional</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Science/"> Science</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Shopping/"> Shopping</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Society/"> Society</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/Sports/"> Sports</a> | <a href="http://www.brujula.net/dmoz/World/"> World</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/dmoz/World/"> Languages</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/news/"> News</a> | <a href="http://www.ba.net/news/"> Blogs</a> <HR NOSHADE> <center> <!!--#exec cmd="/cgi-bin/banner"--> <table><td> <script type="text/javascript"> GA_googleFillSlot("news-banner-bottom"); </script> <td> <a href="http://www.ba.net/about/"> <img src="http://ba.net/gifs/adbrite-your-ad-here-banner.gif" style="background-color:#CCCCCC;border:none;padding:0;margin:0;" alt="Your Ad Here" width="11" height="60" border="0" align=right></a> </table> <form method="POST" action="http://www.brujula.net/cgi-bin/buscar"> <input name="text" size="45"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> <input type="hidden" name="buscador" value="categorias-en"> </form> BA.net Brujula.Net © 2008 <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/acerca/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">advertising</a> <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">english</a> <A HREF="http://www.brujula.net/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">español</a> <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/italia/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">italiano</a> <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/germany/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">germany</a> <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/japan/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">japan</a> <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/france/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">france</a> <A HREF="http://www.ba.net/world/" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">more</a> <A HREF="javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(window.location.href,document.title)" STYLE="text-decoration:none;font-size:xx-small">bookmark</A> </center> </td> </TABLE> </TD> <TD valign="top"><IMG src="http://www.brujula.net/gifs/sep3horiz.gif" width="23" height="1"></TD> <TD bgcolor="#333366" valign="top"><IMG src="http://www.brujula.net/gifs/sep3horiz.gif" width="3" height="1"></TD> </TR> <TR bgcolor="#ffffff"> <TD colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFCC66" valign="top"><IMG src="http://www.brujula.net/gifs/sep3horiz.gif" width="1" height="24" border="0"></TD> <TD colspan="3" valign="top"><IMG src="http://www.brujula.net/gifs/sep3horiz.gif" width="1" height="24" border="0"></TD> <TD rowspan="2" colspan="2" bgcolor="#333366" valign="middle"> <CENTER> > </CENTER> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD colspan="5" bgcolor="#333366" valign="top"><IMG src="http://www.brujula.net/gifs/sep3horiz.gif" width="1" height="3"></TD> </TR> <TR bgcolor="#666699"> <TD colspan="8"><IMG src="http://www.brujula.net/gifs/sep3horiz.gif" width="1" height="10"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY></HTML>