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Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by Cdntrader, Aug 29, 2007.

  1. Basis Yield Files Bankruptcy Over Subprime Defaults

    By Tiffany Kary and Jenny Strasburg

    Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Basis Capital Fund Management Ltd., the Australian firm that said losses in its Basis Yield Alpha Fund could exceed 80 percent, filed for bankruptcy protection for the hedge fund, citing defaults in U.S. subprime mortgages.

    The Sydney-based firm's Basis fund asked a court in the Cayman Islands yesterday for permission to liquidate its assets, according to a petition filed in New York today. The George Town, Grand Cayman-based fund has assets and liabilities of more than $100 million, according to today's petition, which asked a federal bankruptcy judge to bar lawsuits in the U.S. while it liquidates in the Caymans.

    Basis Capital, founded in 1999 by Steve Howell and Stuart Fowler, who worked together at Australia Bank and County NatWest, had more than $1 billion in assets as recently as May. It lost money as defaults in home loans to the riskiest borrowers spread to broader credit markets. Basis followed Bear Stearns Cos. in seeking bankruptcy protection in the Caymans for a fund with clients located in the U.S. and elsewhere. Bear Stearns' request for two hedge funds is pending.

    ``There will be issues as to whether it's a foreign main proceeding, just as there are with the Bear Stearns case,'' said Kurt Mayr, a lawyer in the financial-restructuring group at Bracewell & Giuliani in Hartford, Connecticut.

    Bear Stearns Setback

    A federal judge refused this month to grant permanent protection from U.S. lawsuits to the two bankrupt Bear Stearns Cayman Islands funds, saying he needed more time to determine whether the Cayman Islands was the proper jurisdiction for the liquidation given that most fund assets were located in New York.

    The Basis Yield Alpha Fund's creditors and assets appear to be mostly U.S.-based, Mayr said.

    Creditors of the Basis fund include JP Morgan Chase Bank NA, Goldman Sachs International, Citigroup Global Markets Ltd., Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers International (Europe) and Merrill Lynch International, according to court documents. Those creditors all issued default notices to Basis Yield following its June 2007 devaluations.

    Basis halted redemptions last month from its Yield Alpha Fund and Aust-Rim Opportunity Fund after the investment pools lost 9 percent and 14 percent in June, respectively.

    The Basis Capital funds had the highest five-star ratings from credit-rating firm Standard & Poor's before the ranking was put ``on hold'' July 17. That meant it was under review because of ``issues potentially affecting the management of the fund,'' S&P said.

    Basis earned the ``Fund of the Year'' title at the 2005 AsiaHedge awards and Macquarie Bank Ltd.'s ``Skilled Manager of the Year'' in 2004.

    `Significant Devaluation'

    ``Following the well-publicized volatility in the market related to the U.S. subprime lending defaults, by June 2007, Basis Yield began to suffer a significant devaluation of its asset portfolio,'' the fund said in its New York petition that explained why it was liquidating.

    The surge in U.S. home-loan payment defaults has forced more than 100 mortgage companies to close, seek bankruptcy protection or put themselves up for sale. Defaults on subprime loans in the first quarter climbed to the highest since 2002, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The defaults led investors to shun securities backed by subprime mortgages.

    Basis Yield Alpha has fewer than 49 creditors, according to the petition, which was filed under Chapter 15 of the U.S. bankruptcy law. Using Chapter 15, a foreign-based company can win protection from U.S. creditors while it liquidates or reorganizes overseas.

    Court Hearing

    Judge Robert Gerber in Manhattan will hear a request on Sept. 6. to temporarily bar U.S. lawsuits while the company makes its case for permanent Chapter 15 protection. Today, Basis was granted a restraining order protecting it from lawsuits until that hearing.

    Basis Yield, incorporated in 2005, invested in high-yield corporate and structured credit securities, including mortgage- backed bonds and collateralized-debt obligations, according to court documents.

    In July, Basis Capital hired Blackstone Group LP as an adviser in an effort to avoid a fire sale of assets. Bear Stearns also hired Blackstone to liquidate the two hedge funds that collapsed following losses in subprime mortgages. Bear Stearns sought bankruptcy protection for the funds last month.

    Basis Yield's Operations

    According to a Basis Capital Web site, Basis Capital Alpha is a regulated Cayman Islands mutual fund. The portfolio is described in the New York petition as a ``master fund'' that has two ``feeder funds,'' Basis Yield Alpha Fund for U.S. taxable investors and Basis Yield Alpha Fund for all other investors.

    The Basis Yield Alpha Fund has an office at Fortis Prime Fund Solutions, a U.K.-based fund that also serves as an administrator to the so-called feeder funds, the company said.

    Basis Yield Alpha said the devaluation of its assets led to margin calls from ``trade counterparties'' that it was unable to meet. The counterparties then issued default notices and seized the assets that had been subject to repurchase agreements.

    Sandra Corbett, Basis Yield's lawyer with Cayman Islands- based law firm Walkers, said in a court declaration the funds plan to liquidate with Hugh Dickson, Stephen John Akers and Paul Andrew Billingham acting as joint provisional liquidators.

    The case is in re Basis Yield Alpha Fund (Master), 07- 12762, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

    To contact the reporters on this story: Tiffany Kary in New York bankruptcy court at ; Jenny Strasburg in New York at

    Last Updated: August 29, 2007 17:19 EDT
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  1. OK GUYS!

    Like I said, the gap has been filed and now ERTS has bounced on 5x higher than its average volume closing up, +83 cents over yesterdays high. BUY BUY BUY!...or not, but I thought I'd let you all know. :D

  2. On second thought, the weekly charts dont look that great, but i'm willing to take a chance. ERTS should've done well over this nov-dec holiday shopping spree with new games for Wii and ps3.
  3. up .70 . Was I right, or what?
  4. If i were you i would watch out. This is a gaming company and a gaming company that i not like by a lot of gamers. PS3 only has 400K systems out and most of them are being sold on Ebay(29%). They will get more sales but i don't see bigger numbers until next year when there are more system out there.
    Look at TTWO, it's being on a rally! Could end up at 30, just like THQI! GME and GME/B are just not going to do this good next year because next year no system are launching, stay away from those too.
  5. hopefully this is a least for the next few days :p
  6. Up 1.90... I hope this rally actually goes somewhere this time.

    Anyone long on this, cuz i am.

  7. I dont care much for fundamentals.. I'm looking at it from the TA side.

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Obama wants illegal immigrants to vote in Arizona

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Artful D0dger, Jun 11, 2011.

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    Attorney General Tom Horne accused the Obama administration Tuesday of trying to thwart Arizonaâs voter-ID laws in a bid to get more illegal immigrants to the polls â presumably to cast ballots for the president and Democrats.
    Horne acknowledged that a brief filed by the Department of Justice in a case to be heard next month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals centers around the agencyâs argument that Arizonaâs law requiring proof of citizenship to register is pre-empted by federal law. But Horne, a Republican, told Capitol Media Services he sees something more sinister.
    âI think the motive is that the more illegals that vote, the better the Obama administration thinks it will do,ââ he said.
    As proof, Horne pointed out that the Department of Justice did not file its friend of the court brief until just last week. That is nearly three years after the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and others first challenged the law.
    More to the point, Horne said, is that the administration waited until virtually the last minute: The case is set to be heard in just two weeks.
    A Department of Justice spokeswoman brushed aside Horneâs questions, saying the arguments in the legal brief speak for themselves.
    At the heart of the fight is a 2004 voter-approved law that requires presentation of certain documents that prove citizenship before someone can register. Another provision of the same law, not at issue here, mandates identification before casting a ballot.
    The lawsuit contends that runs afoul of the National Voter Registration Act. That law spells out what states can and cannot require before someone can vote in federal elections.
    A trial judge did not see it that way. But last year, in a divided opinion, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit ruled the law invalid because of the conflict with the National Voter Registration Act.
    That led to the decision to ask for review by a full 11-judge panel of the court. Horne, who said he will argue the case personally, said this is more than an academic question.
    âIllegals are voting and they shouldnât be voting,ââ he said.
    âNobody that Iâve talked to, regardless of political persuasion, can understand how a court can tell us that we canât make sure that people who vote are citizens.ââ
    Horne said there was evidence presented when the case went to trial that illegal immigrants had registered to vote, some of that from the stateâs two largest counties.
    âNormally, the way they catch people is they get a jury summons and they swear under oath that theyâre not citizens,ââ he said. âBut theyâre already registered to vote.ââ
    But MALDEF attorney Nina Perales said the evidence presented was that some people who are not citizens did, in fact, register to vote. But she said it would be wrong to call them âillegals.ââ
    âI know that some citizens in Arizona love to collapse those terms and make every legal permanent resident immigrant into a so-called illegal immigrant,ââ Perales said. âSo if thatâs what he told you â that there was evidence in this case that there were illegals registered to vote and voting â that is a falsehood.ââ
    Perales said there was testimony of âscattered incidentsââ of people who thought they were eligible to register to vote, did register and only found out later that they were not eligible.
    Horne, however, said that in one year there were about 200 incidents reported of people who were not citizens having registered to vote. âAnd about 10 were prosecuted,ââ he said.
    Horne said the problem is not so much caused by those not in the country illegally but by organizations like ACORN that have registration drives and pay people to sign people up to vote.
    âThose people fool people into registering,ââ he said.
    Horne linked the Department of Justice legal brief to other ongoing battles between Arizona and federal government.
    He said the Obama administration, after failing to secure the border itself, went to court to block the state from enacting its own laws aimed at illegal immigration. And Horne cited recent comments by the president arguing that the border is safe, saying he is trying to âcreate a false sense of complacency.ââ
    And he said the latest court filing amounts to arguing that people should be able to register without providing information to prove citizenship, âthus enabling illegal aliens to register to vote.ââ
    Horne said there is no reason for the Obama administration to insert itself into the fight, other than for political reasons.
    âWhat we are asking for is not burdensome at all,ââ he said.
    Horne said 90 percent of Arizonans have a driverâs license or a state-issued ID card. Those cards are now recognized as proof of citizenship because there is a requirement to prove at least legal presence in this country.
    The stateâs voter registration forms require the number of those cards to be listed.
    He also said all naturalized citizens have a certificate with a number of its own that also can be listed on the registration forms. And those who have neither can produce other documents, like a birth certificate.
    âThe burden is miniscule,ââ Horne said. And he said even the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized there are benefits in ensuring that only those legally entitled to vote are casting ballots.
    The 2010 census data, the most recent available, shows there are about 4.7 million residents 18 and older. There is no breakdown by citizenship.
    According to the Secretary of Stateâs Office, there were 3.1 million registered to vote last year. And of that, only about 1.7 million of them, or 55.6 percent, actually cast a ballot.
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Discussion in 'Hook Up' started by caementarius, Sep 16, 2008.

  1. Anyone here trading in Pittsburgh?

    Aside from the few banks like PNC, BNY Mellon, etc are there any trading desks you know of?

    I see yellow pages listings for a 'Pinnacle Trading' and 'BMR Trading' in the same building in Oakland - are these trading outfits?

    I'm finishing an MBA and would really like to find somewhere local (my wife is attached to the area) where I can make a career as a trader.
  2. kxvid

    Hi im from pittsburgh. As far as jobs I guess theres a few places to trade. I guess it depends on what kind of trader you are, there always seems to be alot of demand for fixed income traders. But the trader job situation here leaves alot to be desired. You could probably find better opportunities just about anywhere else.
    pennsylvania trading jobs;http://banking-finance.careerbuilde...9-KE-5&ns_siteid=ns_us_g_trading_pennsylvania


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Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by simonee, Oct 30, 2005.

  1. simonee

    I have a trading strategy and I want your opinions!

    I have watched the Swedish markets for 3 years now, and watched 4 stocks very often.

    So this is my strategy plan.

    I trade those stocks I am familiar with , for example ericsson when I think its cheap (not intraday cheap ,when it had going down for several days (about 10-15% )without bad news, maybe its called âoverboughtâ I am not shore, but has happened sever times before) I have watched those stocks and they kind of do that from time to time, so my strategy is to buy first for a little amount say 7k ( the stock now have stopped to go down and its only moving sideways , and the when its start to go up I will by) and a I will risk 3-5percent (because the time frame is most likely to be about 2 weeks, so I must give the stock a little space to move against my direction . when the trade go my way I will buy for 7k (now I have bought for 14k pound), I will put a moving stop loss with 3-4 percent now, and if I see that stock still going strong I will by for another15 k and put a moving stop loss of 2 percent.
    This is in a bull market, and same strategy in bear market but you go shortâ¦well you understand..

    First of all sorry for my bad English!

    PS. Please if you have an opinion of how bad my strategy is, please tell me WHY its bad so I can work on it!

  2. Okay Simon,

    First it is too bad that you insist on trading. In my opinion you do not have enough experience to do this, and you may lose your money. I would suggest that you study the markets and learn more by observation.

    I am fifty four years old, and I used to play tennis very well. If for instance I told you I was going to play a match with Stefan Edberg or Mats Wilander, would you bet on me to win. I don't think so. Why? Because both of them are very good professional tennis players, and I am an old man who has never played a professional in my life. Even if I told you that I have studied every match that they have played and had a good plan to beat them, who do you think would win? The truth is that the odds that I would win are not good. I don't have the skills, and I am too old to play against them with success. Even if I am lucky in the first set, eventually I will get beaten as I become tired and make mistakes.

    The stock market is very similar. At this point, you do not have the skills or the experience to win. Even if you are lucky once or twice, the odds are that eventually you will lose your money.

    I hope you will take some time and develop your skills and experience before you risk your money. There are quite a few good professionals playing that game too, and they will not think twice about taking your money if you are wrong.

    Good luck,
  3. simonee

    Thanks steve!

    This is the scratch of my strategy plan that I have maid, I have to start somewhere.
    These dos not mean I will trade this plan (but I now that my bad English is confused it up), I am learning and I now that I am an easy target for the professionals, I read a lot of books but I have to listen to others to.

  4. Simon,

    Try your strategy out with very small share lots at first, so you will preserve your capital in the event of losses. Log all your trades and study your losing trades to try to figure out what went wrong. If your strategy does not work, it will be time to conduct new studies and try out a new strategy. There is no right or wrong way to trade. Both Warren Buffet and George Soros have become billionaires using drastically different strategies. Everyone must start somewhere. Keep reading the boards and surfing the web to improve your knowledge and skills. Good Luck!
  5. Poha84

    Try it! I don't think you can lose any money in Ericsson B now.. Try your strategy in a small scale. The Swedish trends seem to be very reliable.
  6. If you are a swing trader, how does another trader go about taking your money. You buy at a price, and the next day the market moves up or down, you take profit or you exit the position. What does another trader have to do with your trade? Absolutely nothing.
  7. Stalker

    I thought I was the only swede on this forum. :)
    Compare the times your strategy would have worked with the times it wouldnÂ´t have worked, see if you can spot a difference. Try it and good luck!
  8. Look Reid, what the hell difference does it make if your money is gone.

    If you make a trade, you are buying or selling shares. The other side of that trade is an "entity". That entity is either a person, or a legal entity (like a corporation). Thats it. Thats how another person takes your money (if you guess wrong) or gives up their money to you (if you guess right). Either way the idea that no one is taking (or giving up) money is just plain ignorant.

  9. That's only in your imagination. Nobody is taking your money in a swing trade. You put in the trade one day, the next day you'll know if you bet right or you bet wrong. You can enter the trade when you like and exit when you like, and nobody gives two cents what you do. Whether you sell at a loss or you sell at a profit, somebody will buy the shares, but they did'nt take it from you.
    OK. The next time you make a trade I'm gonna take your money. How about that.
  10. When you buy 100 shares of General Motors, the shares are not sold to you by General Motors, they are sold by a person or a legal entity (corporation). I can assure you that they sold the shares because they wanted to. They had a reason. The reason is not important, only the result when YOU sell the shares. If they sold to you and you make a profit, you win, and they lose. They lose the opportunity to make the unrealized profit you have as the stock goes up, and the realized profit that you have when you sell. These transactions happen because people do care about what happens. Its called competition.

    The time frame in which these events take place makes no difference. When you figure this out, we can have a conversation.

    You want to take my money? Give it your best shot. So far this year, you (and the rest of the market participants) havent done very well at that. I am up $40%+ and unless I have a very bad November and December, I would guess I am going to end up profitable for the year.

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Alex Ziebart

As I posted yesterday, the Dragonblight has been revealed. As a lore nerd and someone fascinated with Northrend, I am stoked. What kind of person uses the word stoked? I have no idea, but it sounded good.

If you've read the official page, you'll know a little bit about the zone and what's going on there. It's a Dragon Graveyard, and rumored to be the place that the Dragon Aspects were originally granted their powers by the Titans. Specifically, that place would be Wyrmrest Keep. Apparently the Scourge are after Wyrmrest Keep and the five accompanying shrines, which are tied to each of the Dragonflights. Why would they be after these shrines? To create their own dragons, of course.

If you think back to the Plaguelands, specifically Scholomance, this is something they've been attempting to do for a long time now, likely inspired by the power of Sapphiron and the accompanying Frost Wyrms. So if they have access to the Frost Wyrms... why would they need more dragons? Seems pretty obvious to me. What they can do with a pile of flying bones is rather limited compared to what they can do with (un)living, fleshy dragons.

As we've seen with the Plague Eruptors in the WotLK bestiary, the Scourge has put some focus on new means of spreading the plague. Lacing oats and candy bars with the plague isn't going to work anymore, the world knows what's up. The direct approach will have to do, and what would work better than giant flying warbeasts spewing forth the plague on whatever it feels like?

The involvement of the actual Dragonflights here is interesting, too. I'm a fan of the Red Dragonflight half of the story mostly because I'm a Red Flight fanboy. Grinding rep with Alexstrasza? Yes please! The Blue half I'm pretty torn about. Specifically this quote here:

"Determined to manipulate all existing magic to serve his own purposes, the blue Dragon Aspect, Malygos, has ordered his flight to maneuver colossal machines into key positions over magical ley line clusters."

If I see even one Mana Forge in Northrend, I will... probably do the quests anyways, but I won't be happy about it, that's for sure! I think the story of Malygos in Northrend will be an interesting one, but I was always under the impression he could simply alter ley lines and the like himself, not needing giant machines to do it. While I have no issues with the 'high fantasy' of The Burning Crusade, Blizzard has stated they'll be returning to more traditional fantasy for Wrath. The Blue Dragonflight building colossal machines isn't exactly traditional fantasy. It should prove to be interesting nonetheless.

We also see the return of the Scarlet Crusade here in the Dragonblight. The remnants have dubbed themselves the Scarlet Onslaught. Most likely they play the role of villains in this zone, but my gut says they're going to be friendly or at least neutral, like we see in Light's Hope Chapel. I'd like for them to be villains, that's what they do best, but you never know. It's possible these are the remains of the expedition that went to Northrend way back(which you can read about in the Armory of the Scarlet Monastery) but again, that's just a guess. If the Crusade does become good guys here, it better be Marjhan and the gang leading the show. It might be a little "lorelol" but it'd be pretty fun. Besides, Marjhan is hot.

Angrathar the Wrath Gate and a necropolis we see in the fly over video, which is most likely Naxxramas, are the last points of interest in this preview. The Horde and the Alliance are apparently gearing up to assault the gate, which leads to Icecrown. A sign of an event similar to the Shattered Sun Offensive in patch 2.4? Maybe! I'm curious if Naxxramas is tied to the gate in any way. Perhaps clearing Naxxramas, plus solo quests against Angrathar leads to opening up an entire new zone? I doubt it, but that would be very interesting. The Dragonblight's placement on the Northrend map seems to place it at low to mid 70s levelling, so end-game content besides dungeons probably won't happen here.

Wow, that was actually pretty long for such a brief preview of a zone! As you can see, there's a lot going on in this zone, which is a good omen for the rest of the expansion. If every zone is as packed full with plotlines as this one is, I'll be pleased.

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Taipei, Taiwan, January 8th, 2013 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced support for 4k display resolutions using multiple standard 1080p displays with Intel® Collage display technology. The new collage feature is available from an Intel® graphics driver update that needs to be individually implemented by motherboard companies before it is available to the user.

Using only the Intel® HD4000 Graphics of any 3rd generation Intel® Core™ i5 or i7 processor, GIGABYTE dual Thunderbolt™ motherboards with the new 4K Collage Graphics driver can power an Ultra HD 4k resolution video stream across four regular displays. Intel® Collage display technology is simple to setup, using dual Thunderbolt™ ports that can be split into a total of four digital streams giving an incredible combined Ultra HD resolution of 3840 x 2400 pixels.

"Our implementation of Intel's new Collage display technology means that GIGABYTE's exclusive dual Thunderbolt™ motherboards are first to power the very latest Ultra HD resolutions across four of today's standard displays", commented Henry Kao, Vice President of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. "Offering a wealth of possibilities in commercial markets that include digital signage, surveillance, medical and more, we're also excited to offer PC DIY customers the opportunity to enjoy 4K resolution support with a simple driver update on their existing hardware, and without a VGA card!"

"We are excited about our collage display feature in our Intel platforms with 3rd generation Core i5 and Core i7 processors using Intel HD Graphics", said Zane Ball, Intel's General Manager for Desktop platform. "GIGABYTE's implementation of two Thunderbolt ports enable consumers to connect four monitors via splitters to a single system and experience UltraHD resolution and is a great example of the innovation enabled on these GIGABYTE Z77 motherboards with Thunderbolt."

Intel® Collage Technology
Vertical Collage Mode Setup using a total resolution of 3840*2400

Two DisplayPort to Dual-DisplayPort adaptors were used in GIGABYTE's testing and implementation of the Intel® Collage Display feature.

The new graphics driver is expected to be available for download from the GIGABYTE website by the end of January, 2013. You can find more detailed information including a setup guide and component compatibility list on the GIGABYTE website here: More pictures are available in a photo album on the GIGABYTE Motherboard Tech Column facebook page:

You can also find a short video introducing GIGABYTE 4K display support and Intel Collage display technology here:

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May 07, 2012

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Hello, another week starts, have a great week! It’s me, Gulfem again. Today, I want to write about quality times that we all spend with our close friends. I am in kind of in the middle of a transition period in my life, as soon I will be done with university and start working for real! Therefore, currently I really need spending quality time with my close friends and reflect on this subject.

I believe, some activities in life are much more meaningful if you share them with your good friends! They are the unique part of your life that beautify even the simplest thing in your life with their touches! You open your heart to them, they open theirs. You share…

I love reading fashion magazines with my close friends, sitting in a couch together, commenting on every single trend and mostly refusing to be part of them!

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I love shopping with my close friends, hearing their inputs, giving them advice if necessary… Every kind of shopping… Apparel, books, stationery, for home…

I enjoy watching movies with them… Analyzing each of the characters, making connections to our lives and then start talking about ourselves, forgetting the movie!

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One last thing.. I love sharing macarons with them!

I wonder… What do you like doing with your close friends most?

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Discuss the significance of the ending in Reading Lolita in Tehran.

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Consider a line from the work's Epilogue as reflective of how the narrative ends.  Azi has come to the West in which she still writes and teaches:  “I have left Iran, but Iran did not leave me.”  The ending of the book speaks to the idea that resistance is the only acceptable option to repression.  The love of literature and the ideas that it prompts from it are actions of resistance.  When she suggests that there should be an inalienable right to imagination, one sees this in the ending of the work.  Azi has embraced the idea that she must pursue her own passion of imagination and the ability to live for it.  This cannot happen in Iran, and thus she leaves it.

It is a complex ending because of this element of departure.  She is the first to open the self- reflective tone in the ending as she hopes that the girls remain back and continue the work that she demonstrated for them.  It is something that she can no longer do and leaves as a result.  The ending of the book is one that shows how many of the girls in the literature circle also end up leaving, suggesting that women of intelligence will invariably find difficulty living under repressive reality.  The ending ends up demonstrating the ultimate power of her memoir.  Her departure enables her to write the book and thus bring more attention to the issues in places like Iran.  In doing so, the ending raises even more complexity, suggesting that challenging issues such as women in Iran and the love of literature must be approached with a lens of introspection and reflection as opposed to quick judgement.  This complex construction of identity is evident in the ending of the book where   she does leave Iran, but Iran never does leave her.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc applied Monday to U.S. regulators for permission to test drones for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories, a sign it plans to go head-to-head with Amazon in using drones to fill and deliver online orders.

The world's largest retailer by revenue has for several months been conducting indoor tests of small unmanned aircraft systems – the term regulators use for drones - and is now seeking for the first time to test the machines outdoors. It plans to use drones manufactured by China's SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd.

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The FAA will review Wal-Mart's petition to determine whether it is similar enough to earlier successful applications to be fast-tracked, or whether it would set a precedent for exemptions, requiring regulators to conduct a detailed risk analysis and seek public comment, agency spokesman Les Dorr said. The FAA normally aims to respond to such petitions in 120 days.Amazon has said it would be ready to begin delivering packages to customers via drones as soon as federal rules allow.

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How To Brain Dump Tasks To Increase Your Productivity

I’m going through Eben Pagan’s Wake Up Productive (currently closed) video training program (Eben is fast becoming my favorite mentor) and one of the first starter tasks is to write down everything you are thinking about so you can “clear your mental desk”.

This reminded me of a technique I first came across from John Reese called the “brain dump”. Neither John or Eben invented these techniques of course, but that doesn’t really matter. John’s Brain Dump is slightly different to Eben’s clear your mental desk, but the principle is the same.

The idea is to get everything out of your head on to paper so you can stop thinking about it. As an entrepreneur – or just a human – we have a lot of things we need to do and keep track of, especially if you have a family as well.

When I returned home from overseas as expected there were a lot of little things that needed to be done. My lawn had grown to about a meter high, and needed cutting. My house needed a good clean. I had to buy food, pay bills, sort out my car registration, and all kinds of odd things – and this doesn’t even include the business tasks!

Over the first few weeks my brain kept collecting things I had to do and storing them for later. As I worked on the computer and walked around my house, certain objects or emails would trigger a reminder of something that needed to get done. This actually causes stress as your brain is constantly feeling the pressure of needing to do something but not actually getting it done.

I’m fairly good at dealing with that kind of stress as I tell myself to be patient and get it done when I can, but that doesn’t make the problem go away and of course, the task needs to get done eventually. It pays to become aware of how you think when it comes to task accumulation in your brain.

This is not a new problem for me, but thanks to Eben’s course I was reminded of a solution to help deal with mental clutter, especially during periods of new starts, in my case returning home from overseas and the new year beginning.

How To Brain Dump

To Brain Dump all you need to do is get out a full page of paper and then sit down and write down everything you need to get done.

In Eben’s case he recommended writing down everything you were thinking about, not just task related thoughts.

I mostly think about things I need to get done, so that’s what I did.

This should take a while – even hours if you have a lot on your mind. Once it is done you should feel a lot better as you no longer need to use your brain to keep track of all these things. You can let the paper have the responsibility. I find this part very relieving and well worth the effort.

With the content from your brain “dumped” on to paper, the next job is to organize your data. Eben’s focus was finding the 10 things you need to get done immediately and to focus on results. He suggested placing a tick next to the things out of your control so you could just forget about them and let them go.

John recommended categorizing and prioritizing tasks, which is what I did. I think the difference between Eben and John is that Eben wants you to identify your core objectives for the next few months in order to increase your productivity. John wants to organize your tasks and store them externally so you don’t need to.

In my case I write everything down in one big dump session. I then go through and group tasks into categories like “Business” and “Home” and “Socializing”. From there you can also rank them in importance from the most important to the least. Then, when it’s time to get to work you just go through the tasks one by one and best of all, you get to write a big line through each task as you complete them (another very satisfying activity).

While I don’t consider this technique the answer to all your problems, I find it tremendously helpful as a way to let go of mental control of everything. Anyone who is a control freak trying to manage everything inside their brain will appreciate this.

I suggest today you take an hour out of your day to try the brain dump technique and see what impact it has on you. Remember it’s important to let go of things once they are dumped and then rely on the paper, not your brain for tracking things.

Make sure you write down every little thing that comes to mind, from “buy milk” to “write blog post on topic X” to “join Yaro’s coaching program” :-).

That’s it from me. I’m off to work on another task.

Yaro Starak
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  • Yaro, thanks for the post. I’ve tried several different ways of “brain-dumping” information out. Since I’m addicted to social sites, I’ve used almost every notebook site out there.

    My physical Moleskine notebook is still what I fall back on for getting everything out first… then I go online to organize everything.

  • Thanks Yaro.

    So nice to see the steady stream of posts again.

    I have always done this, works very well for me.

    I would be lost without my list.

    • Jon

      I agree… on both accounts. Looking forward to seeing pictures of your trip as well!

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  • Wim

    Great post Yaro. It’s something I’ve been doing for a while.

    I keep a to do list on my PC’s desktop. It’s divided into different sections: Today, This week and Work in Progress. Today is obvious. 🙂 Things in This week get put in today depending on priorities. WIP is for all sorts of things to do or ideas that suddenly come up. I write them down so I don’t forget them but they aren’t a priority.

    I go through it all every day and shift things from one section to the other depending on what needs to be done first.

  • Graeme

    Thanks for this – reminded me that this is exactly what I must do.

  • Often times, we tend to think that when we extract all the ideas from our craniums, it has to be in some form of structured way. I should know, I used to be that way, but it’s so much more effective if you just blurt everything out and leave the sorting/organizing for later on.

    The time you spend thinking of “how” you want to get the information out of your head is much better spent actually DOING the brain dump. Our mode of thinking is the biggest barrier to entry when it comes to this sort of activity, so just let go and start writing, typing, or recording!

  • I could not agree more! Whatever you call the process, it is wonderful to relieve your brain of carrying around the memory burden.

    For online organization, I use Remember the Milk ( – it’s free and easy to use – I like it a lot better than organizing tasks in any other software I’ve tried.

    Organizing tasks by area: home, wedding, album production, exercise is great, but another way to organize is by the type of task: emails, phone calls, etc., regardless of the subject. Then when you’ve got a chunk of time to make some calls or write some emails you can just look at that list.

    I recommend brain dumping for any ideas that come up, as well. If you can have a place in advance for where a particular idea (new lyrics, melody line, business idea) should go, then that’s all the better so that you can search there when you want to try to develop those ideas further.

    Thanks Yaro!

  • I know EXACTLY what you mean about the brain getting stressed when everything sort of “floods” your head at the same time. I think any entrepreneur or creative person has experienced that at some point and it can definitely freak you out if you don’t get control of it. Fortunately, I haven’t freaked out yet!

    I’ve started using an app called Things (Mac only) to create and organize lists. It has absolutely kept me on track of projects and everything I have on my mind. It’s one of the few apps I have actually *wanted* to buy in a long time. You can find it at . I have no affiliation with them…just highly suggest it to keep others from freaking out!

    • Great referral Shane – I’m checking out “Things” and it looks real good so far.

    • I’m a mac user and will keep in mind Things, for sure! I just noticed it is nearly $50, so I’m going to stick to my free RTM for the moment. Have you heard of this thing that’s in a beta phase which also changes the way your desktop looks? Let’s you move around piles and such (the way our physical desktops work)? I’m sorry, but I can’t remember the name of it.

  • I do this at work almost everyday- great stress reliever. I definitely need to try it for online too. Sometimes your brain just gets so full that when you put it all down on paper you see some important things you might have missed otherwise.

    I like the term brain dumping too….

  • I’ve had brain dumping backfire on me in the past simply because I wrote down so many things in one that I ended up getting overwhelmed by the entire list at the end of the day / week.

    Now I write them down in separate lists, important, not important, urgent, not urgent. Can’t remember what this is called, learned it somewhere. Works much better.

  • Very interesting. I found that I often do this (quite compulsively) on a smaller scale. Whenever I think of something that I have to do, I need to immediately record it (i use Remember the Milk). This constant mini “Brain Dump” seems to work for me as I stop thinking about it, and I approach the problem when it is due. If this works for me on a smaller scale, I can imagine that a full brain dump would work very well in clearing you mind.

    Thanks for the post!

    • Matt, I’m so with you! Once you’ve set up where to “dump”, if you will, then it is easy to simply jot down the thought, task, idea, and set up the date it is due and any reminders asap and fuggedaboutit! Glad to meet another fellow Remember The Milk user. I love it ever since I discovered it, especially since it is free. (and I don’t have anything do with RTM) I just discovered it one day when Firefox was upgrading.

  • This technique sounds lot like brain storming to create a piece of writing. The only difference is that this method creates more work, while creative writing helps to release work from your vocabulary. Well at least while you are in the writing frame of mind.

    I find that if I write everything down it only makes the stress worse. Because now I not only just created more work by having to organize the thoughts. But I also have to keep tract of a piece of paper. Before attempting to write something I sit still in as peaceful of an environment as possible. Notice I don’t say quiet because most families aren’t quiet.

    Then I will let go of the crazy thoughts in my head. I will do this by thinking of something I want to do. OR something I want to accomplish. In the writing forum this would work by thinking of a subject. This allows my mind to turn from the negative stressful thoughts to something I actually care about, or something that I like to think about. This usually lets my mind wonder until I am ready to create something.

    • When you’ve got a lot on your mind, I agree that thinking of something you really love to do and letting that motivate you and steer you away from negativity associated with so many to-do’s is a good idea.

      My fear is that I might forget to pay a bill or something like that and it will come to bite me later, which is why I feel I really like to get down the to-do’s and I love that all I have to do is set it up and then the program does the rest (in terms of reminding me, so long as I look at it). I can focus on doing and not thinking. If I wear the stressful manager hat for a couple of hours every so often to sort things out, then I can have the relief of just doing the needful and being relaxed the rest of the time.

      So I see brain dumping as it relates to getting rid of the dust particles in your brain and, in that way, I can see how it might stress you out to have put all the dust particles down and then wonder how you would go about dealing with them when they stare back at you in a pile like that! Certainly, we are all different in terms of what works for each of us and your post is a good reminder of that.

      I think that brainstorming is very different from brain dumping. Brainstorming is about coming up with ideas for something or about something, without judging yourself or others with whom you might be working. It is usually about getting down all the ideas you might already have, say for a new research direction or marketing campaign, as well as thinking up new ideas on the spot. When you are about to write an essay and you stare at a blank page for an hour, this is where brainstorming might come in handy. Of course, this is a matter of semantics, perhaps.

  • Great post Yaro, thanks for sharing. I have done this on a smaller scale but like the idea of spending more time on it. There are times I know I will not stop obsessing over it until I write it down… I’m worried I’ll forget it. So the physical act of writing it down helps clear it out and let me move on to something else.

    And you right, it feels like a big weight has been lifted.

  • This is a gr8 post. Eben Pagan rocks.

    He is smart, makes a lot of money, has a lot of friends and also know to attract beautiful girls.

    He has evolved into a perfect human. He is going to make it big and people are going to write books about him for sure.

    The only problem with him is that he never has come up with his own ideas/quotes.

    He takes it from books but acknowledges the source anyway. He is a knowledge filter. Or a converter who converts book knowledge in video courses.

  • It is definitely a great idea and I am currently using this technique in laying out all my thoughts in a piece of paper and tackling it. Thanks for sharing, Yaro.

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  • I am doing the Eben’s Wake Up Productive course too and that was a great exercise! I am already finding that I have become more productive after just the first few days, or at least become aware of the difference between just being bust and actually being productive.

    If you have a relationship with busy…end it now and hook up with productive!

  • Love the post, Yaro! I also breath a sigh of relief once everything is out of my head.

    I use this technique frequently; once everything has been dumped, each task/to-do/thought gets assigned to a Post-It note. I sort and prioritise the Post-Its, then I stick them in an A4 day-to-a-page diary (a great way to manage the workload). This works beautifully as there isn’t Post-Its embellishing every surface and it’s a great way to track completion.

    To my husband’s disgust (who is also my business partner), I also colour co-ordinate the tasks: my stuff; his stuff; house/baby stuff. It’s great if you’re a visual person and helps divvy the workload for each day.

    • Amanda, I really like the post-it idea for the visual and color effect. This can work wonderfully esp for persons who are not into putting stuff into a computer. It is just like making all the pieces of the puzzle and then putting them together in whatever way makes sense for you, chronologically, by project, whatever. I could see putting them on a bulletin board as an alternative, but I like the notebook idea so you can carry them around. I’ve got a huge sketchpad that I use and divide into quandrants for different tasks that I write with a marker, because it provides a quick visual and I can consider just leaving the quandrant up and changing the stickies if I opt for this method.

  • This reminds me of Agile Development techniques which you can use also to improve and develop your blog.

    For each Development Iteration, the customer will write a list of specific requirements & prioritise them. The developers will estimate the time each requirement will take, and work through the requirements in priority order until they run out of time for that iteration which could be a week or a month long.

    At the end of the iteration, developers showcase what they have achieved to the customer and then the customer provides feedback & sets out the requirements and priorities for the next iteration.

    I plan to use this approach to prioritise the things I need to do to develop my blog. If I do I’ll be writing about how it went in my blogging journey section.

    Thanks for all your ideas Yaro – there’s some excellent stuff and I like the way you add your own reflections to the material.

  • Hey Yaro, thanks for the post and the advice… I’ve tried this method often (didn’t even know it had a name) problem is I tend to be so scatter-brained that I lose the list and forget what was on it, which puts me back to exactly where I was before I made the list

  • I like the analogy that David Allen used in his excellent Getting Things Done. He termed it “psychic RAM.”

    All those small (or huge) tasks, thoughts and ideas that are still floating around your neurons taking up mental space – and your poor brain feels the need to keep track of all those commitments, which can (and does) create stress.

    Collecting all those tasks in a trusted source relieves that stress and frees up your mind to focus, as well as to “be” more in the present moment.

    A great website that I simply couldn’t imagine being without anymore is:

    It quickly lets you collect and enter all those tasks and ideas and put them into projects and contexts like @work, @computer, @phone, etc…

    The UI is one of the most intuitive I’ve come across and the filtering options are simply awesome.

    However, while the right tools are helpful to keep you on track – the first step simply should be to just get started. When you experience the mental relief and all the side benefits of clearer thinking, you’ll make it a priority to develop the habit. 🙂

    Take care,

  • Hi Yaro,

    I am working through Eben’s Wake up Productive program as well. I have tried other similar programs in the past and I am finding Eben to be very good, not only at explaining, but at sistematically getting all this stuff out of the way for me.

    I had never heard of the Brain dump but seems like a good idea. I did Eben’s and I let go of a couple of things I have no control over, but the tasks, those for some reason, keep swirling in my head. I am going to take a break today and try this brain dump which delves a little deeper into the tasks that I do have control over. Thanks for the info.

  • Yaro,
    I just started doing this-AGAIN-at the beginning of the New Year. I bought a new day planner (the old one was too big and cumbersome) and have been writing in it every day. I even write down, “Write Post” so I can cross it out at the end of the day after I have posted to my blog. There’s nothing more satisfying then taking that pen or pencil and crossing out a “To Do!”

  • Thanks Yaro. I’m a big believer in making to-do lists so this sounds right up my alley. I especially like the way you categorize each task as business, family, etc. Doing that can help you maintain balance in your life too. If you notice all of your time is being spent on business tasks it may be an indication you need to re-prioritize and spend more time with the family. I’m going to try to Brain Dump this afternoon and we’ll see how it goes.

  • This is also the first step in the GTD (Getting Things Done) process, which is collecting. People often underestimate the value of this first step and end up never clearing their head entirely. Leaving tidbits on the “RAM” risks of filling it up quickly.

    When something is in the RAM, we tend to think about it when it is not even the right time to do so. Writing down all the thoughts help us feel good not only about what we are doing right now, but also what we decide not to do, which is as important, if not more.

    Bring on more tips from Eben 🙂

  • My brain is always running at top speed so “brain dumping” has been a huge help for me over the years. I have tried electronic ways of doing this, but I always end up going back to paper and pen. I have a notebook that I carry around in my purse (lucky I’m a girl) and I dump into it constantly. I have pages for work thoughts, home thoughts, blog thoughts etc. When they fill I start new pages.

    Not everything I want to write down is a to-do item, it’s just something I’m thinking that I don’t want to forget. Instead of stressing that I might forget it, I write it down. Later when I get to a computer I dump the dump into the appropriate online tools. That way if I ever lose that notebook I don’t actually lose my mind!!!!

  • Yes indeed. We just set up SalesForce for our CRM, Sales, Marketing, Project Management, Ideas, Google Adwords Tracking and Lyris Integration.
    This was so we would not drop the ball with opportunities or lose any important IP or ideas or concepts. Why? Because there was a tab for ideas! This is great, because it allows our team to collaborate on ideas to improve the company’s overall performance.
    So I brain dump in my ideas section in SalesForce so I can convert those ideas into revenue generating opportunities/leads.

  • I always do that. As soon as I realise that I have some task to perform, I take a note so that it would not dwell on my mind.

    When you constantly think about tasks you need to do but you have not done yet, you start feeling guilty of the delay. To avoid this, it is necessary to take notes of the tasks you have on your mind.

  • Great article. Being a writer, I’m always in my head. I’m usually thinking about what must be done and how will I get it done…One of my New Year’s resolutions and daily mantra is “lighten up!”

  • Ohhhh, I sometimes set up a private forum that’s password protected so that I can have a place to do a brain dump. That allows for a free flow of ideas that I can categorize any way I choose.
    If I want to allow others in to brain storm, then I have that option as well.
    Its another good option of dumping and maintaining the free flowing thought stream.

  • You’re right. I just started a new job and now have to use SalesForce to store, send, track and share virtually every file I work on. It is making a huge difference.

    My work is especially collaborative and organizing ideas among so many coworkers is daunting, bordering on impossible. I’ve been using the SF cloudware to store everything and it’s helped me a lot. Ironically, I want to kick my both bosses into using the software they absolutely insisted I master… Perhaps I’ll write what happens when a brain-dump comes out of one’s mouth. 🙂

  • Great post…I have also found that brain dumping helps me from forgetting tasks and ideas. Many times, I get ideas while driving or biking that would be great for the house, my blogs or anything else in my life…when I go to dump it all down on paper…I forget several key ideas that might have been great resources.

    To combat this…I keep notes on my iPhone so that I can elaborate and organize them later. That also helps keep the stress down of trying to remember every idea I had throughout the day. It also creates a backlog of go to ideas if I ever feel like I can’t get something started.

    One of the coolest things I have seen in a long time was a conference room in a web based business office that the walls were nothing but whiteboards. Talk about extreme brain dumping and organizing! I need to build a room like that…

  • Brain dumping is a great practice.

    Aside from using it to clear your mental desk, I’ve used it on my teams for years to rapidly share knowledge. Rather than over-engineer our notes, it was a way to just quickly dump everything into a shared email. Each person on the team would just dump whatever was their key bullets. This worked great because I tend to have distributed teams, and it keeps it lightweight.

  • I’m a real victim of this. My brain just goes over 15 different things at a time and sometimes I won’t remember all those. It definitely adds stress. Brain Dump seems hopeful to help me get over with this. Thanks for the write-up Yaro.

  • Excellent tips. I’ve been using the technique, but I just knew that it’s actually called brain dumping. However, I like that idea from John Reese about grouping related tasks. Before this, I just dump everything and take 5-7 of the most important (Eben’s way). But sometimes I was being chased by my activities instead. Using John’s way, I’m more relaxed and be in control of my daily activities. Just my 2 cents =)

  • Yaro

    Thanks for this tip as I forget to do this until things get unmanageable. It so important to hit the relief valve to get everything down on paper to help the productivity level.

    Speaking of productivity level a lot of stress can be relieved by studing your hosting stats weekly to get a gauge on content vs productivity to get the most out of your site via your work load.

    Anyway thanks for the post!

  • Thanks for sharing this, Yaro. I also love the Brain Dump idea. I particularly like that one has to write down all the details of what he/she wants to do before getting started on it. I once heard that “the faintest pen is stronger than the mightiest brain”.

  • True. It can be pretty stressful just keeping it in your head, especially since you’re almost bound to miss one thing or another. :O

  • I find that using Evernote on my iPhone is a great tool for brain dumping on the fly. This is important to me. I need to get the idea out of my head and into my trusted system as soon as I can!

    After I do this, I can then assign out tasks or send messages through Pelotonics, my project management system:

    Very cool article. Thanks.

  • Excellent article. Reminds me of Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Pencieve. You’re quite right though, sometimes going to sleep at night is harder because you’re afraid something that is on your mind will be lost (unless you write it down).

  • No problem here. When I want to dump my brain, I go to Florida and do some surfing. I bought a house in New Smyrna Beach, FL and go surfing every day.

    An 8 foot wave is a great brain dump for me any day of the week.
    And now I sell houses in my home town.

    Adam Scott Realty, LLC is my company. Check it out.

  • I have been an avid follower of Eben Pagan for some time as well. His teachings are really informative and experience-based. I bet many people and IM newbies are thankful for Eben.

    As for brain dump, I use sticky notes to remember whatever stuff I plan and ideas I have in mind.

  • Great advice Yaro. I’m currently trying to revise for exams but keep getting distracted by blogs and whatnot on the internet. Maybe if I do what you suggest I’ll be able to keep all that out my mind until I can afford to spend time on it.

  • I always find a good way to clear my mind is old fashioned meditation. Clears you out big time.

    Sharon Hollas – Surrey Real Estate

  • Definitely important to get tasks out of your head. I make a habit of typing things into OmniFocus when I think of them.

  • Don’t you think, the time you spend to create that list could have been used to tackle most of those required tasks? :)) Only joking. I think it is great way to get organised and relaxed. I usually do that, if I can’t sleep. I write the things down that are on my mind on a paper. After I can sleep much easier.

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  • Brain dumping is something I have been doing for years with Excel sheets. The sheets are a great way to keep up with these open tasks for a long period of time without the worry of keeping up with a piece of paper.

    • That’s a good idea. Excel would make it easy to sort and categorize your tasks. You could even use simple formulas to track how much time you’re spending on each category.

  • Not sure if anyone else suffers from this, but I often find that the act of trying to dump my thoughts causes me to lose (some of) them. I find my best bet is to immediately dictate my thoughts into my phone.

    I can start a voice recorder in about 2 keypresses on my phone (Samsung A701 from memory) and I’m sure most modern phones offer the ability.

    Of course, then the problems become remembering to review them, finding the time to do so, and not being embarrassed of your own voice.

  • This really is a great idea, it kinda like mind mapping only faster, since you don’t have to type up everything, I also learned this technique from Mark Joyner from simpleology 101 over at

    Just dump everything then do it(right now), delay it(schedule for later), delegate it(ask someone else to do it), or dump it(delete/cross it off)

    its elegant in it’s simplicity and more stress relieving than simply making a to-do list, since you completely clear your head.

    during my first month practicing simpleology 101, i create a new PHP website script almost every single day because my attention was so laser focused on *fully* completing *one* task before i move on to the other tasks.

  • The brain dump is very important to success. How is it that anyone could achieve their honest ambitions and needs without a brain dump? Oh, and I love the name “brain dump” – funny and precise. nice article.

    – Andrew @

  • Great info. I use a “to do list” widget on my igoogle home page. It’s simple, but effective.

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  • The brain dump is AWESOME! So freeing and definitely puts things in perspective. I know as a mom brain dumping is crucial to staying calm and collected.

  • Great post Yaro… doing it now… well, after I read your other posts.

  • Yaro,

    Thanks for the tips – I did write my thoughts, and I, in fact, be able to work better, faster 🙂

  • Hey, here’s something I used to do even before I read this. I am a compulsive list maker. I keep scribbling in note pads all over the place.

  • This is a great idea, I never heard this as the term “Brain Dump”, but I know a lot of people this. It allows you to clear your mind and and actually focus on what you have to do because you can see it on paper rather than having to think about it

  • I like the way of getting everything out of my head by writing all the thoughts on paper. However I doubt if after writing all my concerns and thoughts I will stop thinking about them. Any ideas?

  •  Well the idea of brain dumping is really great and I tried it out and found it really helps. I think I would be blank without my to-do list.

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  • I Started “Brain Dumping” years ago, I just didn’t Know the Name. Funny as Family was brought up because My 2 year old granddaughter has just demonstrated to me How Important This is For Our Lives. Its Natural for us, We Just tend To Ignore it. Thank you For sharing with us How You used it to be more productive In life And Business!

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