Resources April 2010
Learning May 1st, 2010Favorite Articles
- Adword Reports That can Increase Your Conversions and Save You Money – If you run your own ad campaigns in adwords, this will definitely help you out!
- 20 Time Management Tips – A great list of tips to manage your habits and tasks to get the time in life you want!
- Successful People Traits – Here are some great tips to be successful. You have be that today!
- 25 Talks to Ignite & Unleash Your Creativity Most of these are from Ted Talks, my favorite video site of all!
- 70 Essential Personal Development Blogs for College Students A fantastic list of personal development blogs that I’m honored to be included in!
- 5 Ways to Attract the Relationships You Want – This is a great article on relationship tips
- Motivational freestyle rap by Armen – He’s been hiding a skill you all deserve to hear! Impressive!
Favorite Long Lists
From the Archives Here at LearnThis.ca
As I look back at older articles here I realize just how much content and useful articles there still are from early on here at LearnThis.ca.
- Oct 26, 2008: How to Mediate Difficult Communication Situations
- Dec 18, 2008: Want More Influence? Give to Others First
- Dec 29, 2008: Life and Work Balance
- Jan 12, 2009: Leadership: Skill Development
Off topic Fun, Stumbles and Curiosities
I wanted to highlight a few sites I’ve found from my own interests and hobbies.
- Earthship Biotecture – these homes really intrigue me from the point of view of how self sustaining they are, I love plants and especially the idea of growing so much inside your home and all the renewable resources used for these excellent new sustainable homes. I have a strange feeling I will have one of these at some point in my life, something about them really interests me. Anyway, have a look at the site and some videos about the technology behind every Earthship.
- Remote Control Vehicles – this is a wildly popular hobby and there are so many excellent models now available it can be a really fun hobby to get into. I learned how to fly (barely since I’ve not practiced much) a 6 axis helicopter and it is quite a challenge. If you are at all interested you can check out moe helicopter models here. I strongly advice running a simulator though before starting with any real models to see if you like it and can learn to fly first. Or fly with a friend or local club first before spending much money on fly models, as they are much more difficult than land vehicles.
- With my love for extreme mountain unicycling I’m always looking for new hiking/riding trails and I’ve found a site that is just a fantastic resource for trails all across north America so I figured it would be useful to many readers who share interests in related areas. Anyway, the site is called TrailPeak and you can search for all kinds of trails anywhere in NA including specifics for Earth, snow and water style of trails. It’s quite a fantastic site and provides community based collection of pictures, maps, descriptions and trail ratings and is by far the biggest and most accurate site I’ve seen for this.
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Mike King
May 1st, 2010 at 7:13 AM
I know what mean about the sustainable houses. I have become a bit obsessed at looking at these types of home. Another site you might want to look at is Tiny Houses i think a company named tumbleweed has then. They are designed to have a small carbon footprint and everything you need in one tiny place!
May 1st, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Thank you for the great batch of resources Mike.
Have a wonderful weekend!
May 1st, 2010 at 6:59 PM
@sell.. I’ve come across those tiny houses before, quite a lifestyle shock it seems and surprisingly, they really don’t seem that cheap to me. I guess they only suite certain people. I do like how Earthships still offer a lot of living space and all normal functionality in the home, but they to would certainly require a changed lifestyle, just not as drastic.
@Vincent – its my pleasure, I’m happy to offer some some useful links and articles.
May 2nd, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Earthships rock! One day I would love to have a slice of paradise where I can build myself a sustainable, off-grid habitat. I’ll definitely be using the earthship construction technique to build my living space, and square foot gardening techniques to grow my own food.
May 2nd, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Hi Mike.
I will check out a few of these. I sometimes like to go through sets of resources like this to see various items I had missed in recent days.
I sure did release my vocal interest there, and look to continue to do so in upcoming articles. It is a nice optional component that I am glad to include.
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:47 AM
Cheers for the links, Mike. Just in time for me to peruse them while enjoying my coffee. 🙂
Till then,
Jean
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:21 AM
Nice and resourceful list. The 100 list posts look fantastic.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:13 AM
This is great list of collection. I like it. thanks for sharing.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 AM
I do like the Earthship houses, but the alluring thing about the tiny houses, is that you can pick them up and move them anywhere. Some guy has been traveling the US with his and it seems kinda fun. I don’t think I would be able to do that but it’s still fun to dream.
May 4th, 2010 at 7:53 PM
@industry and sell– Earthships really are awesome buildings and I’m glad to hear you guys know about them already. I love how they blend form and function and technology so well into building practice which really hasn’t had any kind of revolution for hundreds of years. Rules kill innovation the more you see the stories behind earthships. Rules are meant to be broken….
@Armen – thanks man looking forward to more vocal presentations!
Thanks others for your comments and I’m glad you enjoy the links of resources. I’ll keep em coming each month. Let me know if there are specific categories you want or any suggestions to help keep em useful!
August 12th, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Earthships are he way of the future. Mike that really intrigued me. Dude I love all the all the resources. Successful people traits is a must read to get motivated. thanks