I thought I’d kick off this week with some recommended reading:

* Goals: Ryan Adams’ Success Secret: Anne Lamott would be proud. Song by song, page by page, bird by bird. read more…

I have a suspicion that a lot of RS’s and Scanners are also procrastinators. Class A procrastinators, if my life is any indication. I’ve discovered that there are a few reasons why I persist in this pernicious practice:
Avoidance
The task that I procrastinate on is so painful or boring or difficult that I just don’t want [...]

The web site Halfbakery.com offers up heaps of half-baked ideas for the taking.
As long as you leave one behind as a courtesy — all these ideas are free to use, if they’re viable, that is. These folks are definitely RS/Scanner-types. You can create an account to comment on and rate the half-baked ideas or even [...]

One thing about RS’s and Scanners is that we’re almost always looking for new things to learn. I would absolutely love to go get a master’s degree in counseling psychology, professional writing, studio art, theology, and maybe even theoretical quantum physics or cosmology, but will I survive the two or three years necessary or will [...]

Thanks to the iWPhone wordpress theme & plugin, the Alternating Current is very iPhone-friendly. You’ll be able to read the posts quickly without all the miscellaneous formatting. Let me know what you think *if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, that is*.

This is my blog. Well, actually it’s YOUR blog too since one of my aims is to build a community of Renaissance Souls and Scanners and other people who are wired a tad bit differently than those who can pursue one career all their lives.
The world is changing and Renaissance Souls, Scanners and Slashers are [...]

This is the book that started it all. I came across Margaret Lobenstine’s website over a year ago and took this quiz. I checked off “Yes” on just about every single question. It clicked. The reason for my boredom, my inability to stick to one thing, and not only my interest but my ability in [...]

Reading all these productivity blogs like Lifehacker, 43Folders and D*I*Y* Planner is a way to discover all sorts of new things to help keep me organized and making progress in my own projects. The one thing that has helped the most lately has been the Behance Action Pads. Perfect for brainstorming, these compartmentalized sheets [...]