Scaffolding Your Goals for Success

Here's a great post from the always useful Lifehacker site. The article offers up tips for actually reaching those goals we keep setting for ourselves. I like the scaffolding concept a lot.

Scaffold Your New Year's Resolutions for Lasting Change

What's worked for you? How do you improve your goal's chances for success?

Brilliant Blog Posting on Your Long Term Career Direction

Marshal Brain is a local entrepreneur who's sold a lot of books, has his own TV show, and generally considered a very smart guy. He spoke at Duke on how to make a million dollars.

Do you track this blog? Then read this article.

How to Make a Million Dollars

Tips For Staying Motivated and On Course

This post has a list of techniques you can use to keep yourself on track. There's a bit of overlap with the ideas we present in the Career 2.0 book, but it's well worth reading.

33 Ways to Get and Keep Yourself Motivated

Get a College Refresher on a Budget!

This article on Hacker News is right up the Career 2.0 alley! It's an online service that lets you learn as much, or as little, as you want for a flat rate.

This is perfect the unemployed or the underemployed who want to polish their skills and line themselves up for the job they want. In fact, the first example in the article is someone who did just that.

Here's the article College for $99 a Month

The actual website for the courses is Straighter Line

And of course, a hat tip to Hacker News, a great source of information on a variety of subjects.

Career 2.0 talk in Boston Tonight

I'll be speaking at the New England Java User's Group tonight. It's quite an honor to speak for this group... they're in their 10th year as a user's group!

If you're in the area, please come out. Here's the link.

http://www.nejug.org/events/show/95

Friday, I'll be in Charlotte at Agilepalooza. It's an open space event, but I might try to reprise the material there as well!

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If you've been waiting for the perfect time to stock up on birthday presents, or just wanting to put a bit of polish on your future career prospects, now is the time!

Career 2.0: Take Control of Your Life!

What Language This Year?

Here's a good blog post on one developer's thought process on which language to learn this year. Maybe it'll help you pick one, and maybe help motivate you as well. :)

http://piskeris.dk/blog/2009/07/03/language-of-the-year/