Sanborn's Leadership Blog - Breathing Space Blog

Check out Mark Sanborn's Leadership Blog. An interview about my book Simpler Living is featured, but then I started reading his other posts and saw that there is quite a bit worth considering. Mark Sanborn has several best selling books, including You Don't Need a Title to Be a Leader, The Fred Factor, and The Encore Effect: How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do.

Being Hacked = No Breathing Space - Breathing Space Blog

Using any of these 25 passwords is highly risky. A hacked password equals no breathing space. Instead make up something more complex, with random letters and numbers, such as ij6kf40d1. Or use an acronym and numbers known only to you, such a mwdSina8 ("my wonderful dog Skippy is now age 8").

These are a hackers delight:

      1. 123456
      2. password
      3. 12345
      4. 12345678
      5. qwerty

      6. 123456789
      7. 1234
      8. baseball
      9. dragon
    10. football

    11. 1234567
    12. monkey
    13. letmein
    14. abc123
    15. 111111

    16.mustang
    17. access
    18. shadow
    19. master
    20. michael

    21. superman
    22. 696969
    23. 123123
    24. batman)
    25. trustno1

More Meetings = Less Breathing Space - Breathing Space Blog

The typical employee spends +30 hours monthly in meetings and regards at least half of that time to be unnecessary. The calculated cost of unnecessary meetings is $37 billion a year.

Research by Bain & Company indicates that the typical manager consumes at least one full day each week in meetings, and that senior executives devote 40% of the work week in ineffective meetings. None of the findings above includes the time preparation and follow up time consumed before and after meetings.

,All Day - Breathing Space Blog

The process of giving yourself a mental completion on all tasks or even thoughts, described in my book Breathing Space, sets up a mental partition for you whereby you have more energy, focus, and direction for what’s next.

You can practice completions all day long. When you get up tomorrow morning, whether you had good sleep or bad sleep, you'll be complete with that phase of your day, and so on. If you give yourself acknowledgment, and this takes only two or three seconds, you will have more energy, more focus, and more direction for whatever else you face.

Do It Yourself - Breathing Space Blog

The Wall Street Journal offered a nice feature on website that help you take care of tasks on your own:

Instructions, Parts

• Howstuffworks.com has step-by-step instructions and diagrams.
• YouTube.com has instructional videos submitted by users.
• Homerepair.about.com offers maintenance tips to avoid future repairs.
• Manualsonline.com has 1000's of owner's manuals available for download.
  

• Searspartsdirect.com sells approved replacement parts for 1000's of models and brands.
• Partselect.com sells parts and has troubleshooting tips.

Paper Reduction as an Art Form - Breathing Space Blog

Brett Weston was an artist with vision.

While most artists consider the destruction of their work a tragedy, as reported in Time magazine, photographer Brett Weston always considered it a necessity. Best known for haunting semi-abstract nature studies in the tradition of his famous father Edward, Weston vowed for years to destroy his negatives so that others could not make new prints from them after his death.

On his 80th birthday, Weston kept his vow. Surrounded by friends and family, he tossed hundreds of negatives into the living-room fireplace of his home in Carmel, California. Art historians and photography curators were horrified. The Center for Creative Photography, a photographic archive in Tucson, even sent a representative to Weston’s home in an unsuccessful effort to persuade him to change his mind. Weston insisted that he was merely limiting his legacy to work fashioned by his own hand. “Nobody can print it the way I do,” Weston explained. “It wouldn’t be my work.”

Don't Text While Driving - Breathing Space Blog

A sad story, but all too true: texting while driving is a death wish.