Dollars and Sense

Steve Pavlina just started a series of posts about passive income. The idea is to create multiple streams of revenue that will allow you to get paid when you're not working - you know, like royalty checks, ebook sales, etc. Sounds like a good thing to me.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2012/04/passive-income-series/

Good Advice From Copyblogger

I was looking around on Copyblogger and stumbled across an absolute gem:

You can’t drive a car in first gear and reverse at the same time. Likewise, you shouldn’t try to use different types of thinking simultaneously. You’ll strip your mental gears. 

Creating means generating new ideas, visualizing, looking ahead, considering the possibilities. Evaluating means analyzing and judging, picking apart ideas and sorting them into piles of good and bad, useful and useless. 

Most people evaluate too soon and too often, and therefore create less. (emphasis mine) In order to create more and better ideas, you must separate creation from evaluation, coming up with lots of ideas first, then judging their worth later.

Copyblogger is chock full of good information if you're into marketing and blogging:
http://www.copyblogger.com/