Category: self-improvement
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Robert’s Awesome Tricks for Improving your Vocabulary
(2022 Update. To my delight, I have found a free offline dictionary for my android device which allows you to bookmark words you don’t know. (Definitions come from Wikidictionary — not the best, but it has a lot of words). I’ll be syncing the two word lists when I can. ) I haven’t tried the Apple vocabulary/dictionary…
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Robert Nagle’s Ongoing Word List
June 2019 Update. To my delight, I have found a free offline dictionary for my android device which allows you to bookmark words you don’t know. (Definitions come from Wikidictionary — not the best, but it has a lot of words). I’ll be syncing the two word lists when I can. Here is a list…
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Enhancing your Brain Power: My Secrets
Man, I seem to be really kicking butt at work. I have focus and concentration and energy. Ironically, when I work from home, I don’t seem to be as productive. I find 100s of things to distract me, but that is my problem, not my brain’s. I’ve developed a routine. Here it is. Don’t set…
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Fat Robert, Meet Skinnier Robert (How I lost 20 pounds in 6 months)
On June 13, 2008 I weighed myself and was totally shocked. I weighed 220 pounds! I had gained a lot of weight, most of it over the past year. Fat Robert, 2007 Skinnier Robert, Oct 2008 When I was in college I weighed about 170 pounds, and when I went to Peace Corps I weighed…
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My Strange Campaign (Tips for Losing Weight)
Started June 13. Goal is Jan 1, 2009=200. That’s about a pound to lose every 7 days. I expect to get to 210 without major effort, but under that will be tough going. Google, curse you for archiving this for eternity! For those random surfers, this refers to the weight naked on my bathroom scale…
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2 Brains…and Too Productive
Lately I’ve been in a productivity rut. I keep four numbers on each day. One describes my weight for the day, the other three describe my productivity for the day. The system is rough and subjective, yet it forces me to assess what I’ve been doing with my time. The first number describes my productivity…