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Week three report was skipped because I didn’t do anything different from the existing schedule. But Week Four has some new developments and I wanted to report on them.
Planning For a Half Marathon
I found out that there’s going to be a half marathon, called Race to Robie Creek, which will take place in April. [...]

Open Culture writes about top business school offering many lectures for free for you to download and list to on your iPod. Here are direct links to the schools:
Wharton: iTunes Feed Website
Harvard: iTunes Feed Website
Stanford: iTunes
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In health psychology there are many models of change. One of these models is the Health Belief Model. This is a continuum theories model, which means that we are going to change several or all variables that affect behavior and we are going to change them at once. Health Belief Model is an actual model [...]

There are many times when you might feel internal friction, because you are in one place and you want to be in a different place. Or you might be one person and want to be different. Everybody has experienced this in their life at one point or another. Some people try and shut it down. [...]

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clearly, what gets the most attention in our media driven world are the effects. The causes are rarely covered, as they are not as sensational and don’t get the rankings.

Media is just one cause in our world of [...]

I’m going to be changing the design of this website this weekend, so you might notice some things break while I fix it to work with the new theme.

Sitting there in front of the TV, you hear different information being beamed to your brain. Is this information true? Do you believe it? Do you even have a choice? Critical thinking strategies are designed to make us better consumers of information. Once you adapt them into your life, you won’t be just a [...]

I’m a BIG user of Google Calendar, my whole life pretty much is schedule on there. So when google started acting up six hours ago, I didn’t think much of it. They are building those big data centers, right? Well, maybe not. There is something to worry about. I’m just hoping that everything is [...]

My marathon training is continuing better than I expected. This week, the daily running was not difficult at all. I guess the slow, progressive building up is working great.
The 5 mile run. I was planning on running the 5 miles yesterday, but the weather was so cold that I thought today would be warmer. [...]

With the new semester approaching, I’ve been rethinking the idea from David Allen of Getting Things Done and it’s application to college students. I’ve been using a modified version of Getting Things Done up to now.
David Allen summarizes his approach this way:
Get everything out of your head. Make decisions about actions required on stuff [...]