New York Celebrates Good Riddance Day

On December 28th, the residents of New York were encouraged to take part in the second annual Good Riddance Day event in which they were able to throw bad memories of the previous year into an industrial sized shredder.

In an event that organizers hope will become a New Year’s tradition, New Yorkers and tourists were invited to bring bad memories from 2008 to Times Square on Sunday and feed them to an industrial-strength shredder.

“This is the perfect way to move on from a bad year, from a bad experience,” said Kathryn Bonn, of New York City, who shredded a printout of her boyfriend’s e-mail breaking up with her.

This is the second year the Times Square Alliance has sponsored the event which they hope will become an annual tradition. I hope it does too. In fact I hope it become a national event.
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Tim Ferriss’ Productivity Video

Tim Ferriss is the author of the book “Four Hour Work Week”. Based on the reviews I’ve read on the internet about it, he redefines what it means to be productive. As a life-long procrastinator, when I first heard about the book, I planned on getting it…someday. It’s not that I don’t think I need a book on productivity. It’s just that I didn’t think it would teach me anything more than that the other gazillion books on productivity out there.

But a link to this video starring Tim Ferris was forwarded to me via email and I have to say that it convinced me to get off my tush and buy the book. The video is worth watching but if you are short on time, I’ve taken the liberty of highlighting the main points.
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The Power of Visualization

Has it really been over a month? Wow time is just flying by. You’ll be happy to know that I am now gainfully employed at, not one, but two jobs which is one of the reasons why I haven’t blogged in over a month. The other reason is that I slipped into a little bit of a mental rut that I’ve been struggling to get out of for a couple of weeks now. I’m going to share with you exactly what happened because there is a valuable lesson to be learned in this tale.
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