Okay, it’s late, but I wanted to see if I could write a blog post in under 15 minutes.  I have been pretty close in the past, but I’ve never really tried to time myself.  Anyway, if you are new to writing or blogging, there are a couple of tips that will help you write [...]

The name of this week’s time waster may sound horrible, but it is not what you think.  It is an amazingly artistic puzzle game that will most likely have you scratching your head for the first 5 minutes, but when you get the premise behind the game, you’ll start to understand how to complete it.   [...]

I am sure you want to hurt me after reading such an inane title, but lately I have been thinking about how it would be possible to save money at parishes, while at the time improving the entire parish organization.  My solution would be to hire a staff with superior expertise in business administration, design [...]

Tim Bartel from the fantastic Golden Arrow blog asked the following question on one of my WordPress plugin posts: Do you know where i can find a widget for inserting a U.S. Holy Days of Obligation reminder on my blog? Well Tim, I think I have just the thing for you.  Unfortunately, there wasn’t a [...]

Matthew Warner, over at his blog Fallible Blogma, is having a poll to determine who is the best Catholic speaker of 2009.  Of course, it’s no contest that Peter Kreeft and Christopher West are the best. But for some reason they are running behind in the race.

One of the things that bothers me so much about all of us Catholics is our false view of how we are to become saintly.  The majority of practicing Catholics seem to spend most of their time trying to be theologians and philosophers, rather than being who they were naturally created to be.  Well, I [...]

Things have been busy, but that’s no excuse for not giving some good productivity tips (what kind of productivity guru would I be if I can’t make time to blog?). So here is a quick one that most of you probably know about, but I am sure there are some that might like to take [...]

While a lot of people have dreams, only a small minority have clear goals that they want to achieve in their life.  Do you float by day-to-day hoping that at some point in time your day dreams about financial, educational, physical or spiritual success will come all of a sudden come to fruition? Or do [...]

Originally, I was hesitant to do book reviews on this blog because I wasn’t sure if they were appropriate for it’s theme. But after reading Trust Agents, my tune was changed. In fact, this particular book – while its direct subject is not productivity – it indirectly teaches its readers to leverage social media to [...]

The best part about having a WordPress blog is having access to some of the top plugins found on any platform. The only problem is that because there are thousands of plugins to choose from, it’s hard to find the best ones.  Well, now your search is over, here are 26 of the best plugins [...]