interesting blogbits... communications skills, closet organization, and pictorial calorie-counting

[tollermom]

Tim Ferris (author of "The 4-Hour Workweek") has an interesting article on networking tips from the White House in his blog today. He interviews Christine Comaford-Lynch, who has some great tips on connecting with people, including this one...

Fall in love with people. They are fascinating–everyone has amazing stories of trials, triumphs, moments when they had epiphanies. Every day you are taught by people. It can be the mailman, the woman making me a cappuccino, anyone or anything. The more we pay attention, the more we see how we’re all students and teachers of each other.

So simple, and yet so easy to forget in the busy-ness of our everyday lives...

On an organizational note, Peter Walsh from 43 Folders suggests a stupid-simple way to weed out the clothes that you don't ever wear, at least the hanging clothes. In a nutshell, put all the clothes in your closet so that the hangers are backwards (open side towards you), and set a reminder in your calendar (for six months... or if all your seasons are in the same closet, possibly for a year). Go about your normal routine, but when you actually wear something, put it back in the closet with the hanger facing the normal direction. When the alarm goes off, anything still on backwards hangers hasn't been worn for all that time, so make it go away! I've probably got another six months before I move, so I think I'll try this... go through the closet, find anything that I know now can go away, flip the hangers around on the rest, and see what happens by moving day!

Lastly, following a link to a link to a link to a link, I wound up at WiseGeek, and their pictorial "What Does 200 Calories Look Like?". Interesting stuff. Not surprising, all-in-all, but still an interesting visual!

Now that I've spent entirely too much time catching up on my feed reader, I'm off to write an employee review and then I'm heading to the gym.

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

The weirdest thing, for me, about that 200-calories page, is that Coke has about HALF the calories-by-volume that balsamic vinegar does!

Of course, I don't *like* balsamic vinegar, but ...