Top 3 — Productivity, Intellectual Property, & Utopia the Land of Nostalgia
By: Stephen Dalton
Tags: Productivity, Creativity, Design, Poetry, Short Story

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Top 3 — Productivity, Intellectual Property, & Utopia the Land of Nostalgia

My Top 3 for September includes two super informative articles on productivity, intellectual property, and one spellbinding poem.

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My Top 3 for September

Aamna I. Rizvi presents us with, Learn the Skill of Escaping Your Unproductive Rut in a World of Distractions

The subtitle gets your gears going into overdrive and points you to another Medium writer’s article that matches her subject of productivity, “Yesterday’s indestructible is today’s indistractable.”

This always impresses the shit out of me. I love it when a Medium writer points to another Medium writer to share the wealth. Unselfish journalism is sexy don’t you think? Too many writers in other forums are like, “Hey, look at me. I know it all, so why should I share the glory?”

Plus, in my opinion, linking to other subject-matter-experts (SME) who share your point of view solidifies your POV. In his two-minute article, Nir Eyal points out that we should be “indistractable.” He says we should “Stop blaming technology — distraction starts within.”

An excellent point, IMO. But he’s not our focus, and we shouldn’t get too distracted. I just wanted to point it out and say if you have two minutes, you should read it. After all, Aamna thought it was important enough to point out in her essay.

So, anyway, back to our primary attraction against distraction, Aamna says,

“Finally settling for one choice would help. Only if this didn’t keep us worried about keeping our options open since we might be missing out on something even better. For this reason, a while back, I put together a very minimal and condensed solution for myself. Here are 5 ways to defeat the Grinches who steal our attention and our time and make us miserable.”

What I was thinking as I read this was, “I know all this, why is it still jumping off the page at me?” Perhaps, it’s all in the way Aamna presents it to us.

I don’t want to tell you everything because Aamna puts it together so well. It will flow better if you read it yourself.

Olivia Marlene, an “Intellectual Property professional,” gave us the inside scoop on Patent, Trademark, and Copyright — You Should At Least Know the Difference — Intellectual Property Simplified.

She packs a bunch of advice and instruction into this 3-minute powerhouse of data.

OK, so after voraciously consuming those two powerhouse presentations of information, it’s time for a few rhymes to lighten the mood and send you on your way.

Gayle Kurtzer-Meyers’s answer to the prompt Hiraeth, a Welsh term close to “homesickness” or longing.

Gayle whisks us away to a land of “Lollipop swirls and bouncy curls…” Such a fascinating journey in just a few verses.

However, once you finish, you can’t wait to return to reread it from the beginning, and then again and again. Your heart wants to stay, but the clock says you must go. The good news is you can return anytime. Here’s how!

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Stephen Dalton is a retired US Army First Sergeant with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a Certified US English Chicago Manual of Style Editor. Top Writer in Short Story, VR, Design, & Creativity. Editor of Pop Off, Top Dalton’s Blog, 100WordStory, and SportsShorts100WordsOnly

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