Postcards from the Funny Farm – PFTFF

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  • How to Monitor the Analytics of Your Blog

    This is a quick way to check the daily visits, or analytics, to your blog and how you’re doing compared to your monthly average.

    April 6th, 2009

  • Dealing with Negative People

    What do you do when someone around you is in-your-face negative? Do you have a strategy for these “inspiration suckers?” Well, I can tell you one thing you cannot do with them: escape. I recall one day I was overhearing a very negative and counter-productive conversation. Rather than get involved in [...]

    April 1st, 2009

  • How to Make Acronyms for Personal Development

    This post is about how I come up with acronyms for self-improvement. The process of making them is difficult, but recalling them after that is easy. At New Year’s cusp, people are thinking about resolutions …

    January 2nd, 2009

  • The Practice of Empathy

    When friends and acquaintances get what they want easily it can make your struggle seem far great and create bitterness. When you are dedicated to having an open mind, empathy is an excellent practice.

    October 18th, 2008

  • Try Being Humble, Really Humble

    If we think more about meeting other peoples’ needs instead of finger pointing, blaming, and dwelling on how they have wronged us, we will be happier people and better at what we do.

    July 24th, 2008

  • Use Forums to Increase Blog Traffic

    My friends in this community sometimes ask me if I know any good ways of getting traffic. I try to do creative stuff, but sometimes the traditional things work best. Using forums to build traffic is one of those traditional ways. Of course there are several in my community that are doing [...]

    June 21st, 2008

  • Let it Go …Continued

    Well, there weren’t any comments yesterday so either you are all speechless about my question or you are waiting for me, your dysfunctional guide to psychology, to give you my take on how to let things go. SPLENDID … I have a few methods I can recommend. Before I do though, let me [...]

    May 26th, 2008

  • Proactive Waiting: Whistle While You Wait

    It’s been said that life is a series of lines you wait in until the end and even there you have the funeral procession. I guess you lead that line … anyway, I think the notion is true. We wait to get into kindergarten then middle school, high school, college, marriage, parenthood, middle [...]

    May 4th, 2008

  • Kubrick: Wordpress Default Theme is all I Need

    A few people have asked me about my recent theme changes so I wanted to address it here in one place rather than in several emails and comments.  It’s been a very good thing.
    Most people who read my blog know that I have been a theme changer since the beginning. Shelly Tucker even addressed [...]

    April 14th, 2008

  • Entrecard’s New Price System: Deal? or No Deal?

    I wrote just days ago about how to choose Entrecard advertisers. It’s still valid except for one thing, cheap doesn’t mean what cheap used to mean. Here’s an excerpt from the article on their blog below:
    Written on April 7th, 2008 by Graham
    Today we release our long-awaited modification to the pricing system.
    It’s going to [...]

    April 8th, 2008

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