Do you ever 

feel like this?

( when keeping up with the new and hip ) 

Piece of cake...

 

Why ar so many cakes... sniffle

...THEN 

HIRE SOMEONE...

( Focus on what your good at.

Pay someone else to do what your not good at. )

OR...


If you have balls of steel.... 


Keeping up with the Joneses...


Tips and tricks to not loose your shit.

HI Wordcamp!

@therons
theron@thinkstylestudio.com

Background

 Instructor/ Web Designer / Web Dev in YEG
I do PHP / HTML / CSS / JS.


READING A BOOK 
WHILE KEEPING CONTEXT


Try working 

outside > in

  1. Front cover and back cover
  2. Read all chapter in titles in book
  3. Read all headings in chapter
  4. Read paragraphs under each heading

Mind Maps Are your Friend


Enter: Mind Node ( IOS/ Mac )



Break up your Tasks!

Breaking Up The Tasks

  • Overall specific goal
  • Split goal into small pieces
  • Work on pieces incrementally

Productivity Techniques


  1. The Pomodoro Technique
  2. GTK ( Get Things Done )
  3. ...
  4. Roll your own. 



http://ow.ly/qQbJr 


Resources

What to choose where to go.


how you learn?


Learning Styles


Visual


KINAESTHETIC


Auditory


tutsplus.com


  • Courses (Kinaesthetic, Auditory)
    • Video based
    • Good topics
      • Web Design 
      • Web Development

  • Guides (Visual)
    • Course style article grouping


TAKE A BREAK!

Reddit.com

Visit Daily
/r/php
/r/wordpress


Alien Blue

IPHONE REDDIT CLIENT


sorry apple fanboy at work...



Zite


http://zite.com/

Zite delivers the best of your favorite magazines, newspapers, authors, blogs, and videos.

 Other Sites

WordPress

MAKE

WordPress Tavern

WPMU

Design/Development

Smashing Magazine

TutsPlus

AListApart

Codrops


Instapaper

  1. Find Content to read
  2. Add to Instapaper 
  • From browser  or from iphone apps
  • Read in instapaper 

    • Bring it all together

    ReadKit

    Podcasts

    Apple's Podcast App
    NO!

    YES!!

    PODCASTS - Downcast

    • Mac & IOS podcast client
    • Automatic sync
    • Smart playlists
    • Not pretty but snappy interface
    • Download or stream

    PODCASTS - Playlist


    Business

    The Businessology Show - businessologyshow.biz

    Unmatched Style » BizCraft - UnmatchedStyle.com

    Unfinished Business - unfinished.bz

    Kalzumeus Software - kalzumeus.com


    PODCASTS - PLAYLIST



    DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT

    Apply Filters - applyfilters.fm

    The Non Breaking Space Show - nonbreakingspace.tv

    ShopTalk - shoptalkshow.com

    Who I am.

    Theron Smith
    Think Style Studio

    site: http://thinkstylestudio.com
    email: theron@thinkstylestudio.com
    twitter: @therons