The less credit card I carry with me, the less likely I will be tempted to impulse buying.That just works for me. You don’t really want to ding your debit account.

I needed a slim, small wallet – something that I can put in my pant’s or shirt’s front pocket without the extra bulk of the wallet’s material.

And so Malcolm Frontier’s Mojito wallet is just perfect for what I need!

Here’s my usual wallet stuff:

1 credit card
1 debit card
Driver’s license
Couple of $20 Bills (for emergency use where cards are not accepted)

Mojito perfectly complements my minimal everyday carry to office:

Pocket Moleskine
Blackberry phone

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I currently have 400+ RSS subscribers. I feel that is enough number for me to get encouraged to continue writing quality content.

I have decided not to accept guest posts anymore for some reasons. And because of that, I need more ideas.

In the comment below, please suggest topics that you might want to read here. Or suggest any concepts in productivity and GTD you want me to explore – tools, systems, etc.

Let’s make this blog a reader-driven blog.

Thank you in advance.

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I am fascinated by Kobe Bryant’s latest Nike advertisement mainly because I look at it as expansion of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It also echoes to me Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (or at least, that’s how I look at it).

If you’re like me who loves deconstructing thoughts or ideas no matter how silly they seem on the fore, chances are you listened to every sequence of the Kobe System ad and listed them down somewhere.

“Where do you go from the top?” Kobe asked. “You go over the top.”

“Kobe system is about adaptation, attacking fast and strong.”

Kobe System:

#1 Success

Keep your defense offensive. Kobe quips, “I was an animal attacking fast all the time. Then I became a different animal – I learned to attack strong.”

#2 Adaptation

Adaptation is not about reaction. The dinosaur reacted, the meteor adapted. The meteor won.

#3 Perception

A System both attacks fast and strong. A shark is a system.

#4 Explosion

Explosiveness is not a matter of fast or strong. Explosiveness is a matter of fast and strong.

#5 Domination

When you dominate the game early, you should also dominate it late. “How could I dominate my sport when I’m already retired,” asked Jerry Rice. To which Kobe answered, “Dominate retirement.”

#6 Beastion

Are you different animal and the same beast?

#7 Success at Success

You achieved success at success, but have you achieved success at success at success?

I hope to come back here and take a deeper look at each of the levels of the Kobe System.

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I experimented with few things on this blog – I outsourced the blog to guest writers. With that, the blog’s Alexa Ranking and number of RSS subscribers have increased dramatically.

But I am not happy with that improvement. Here’s why:

1. Losing my personal voice

My main goal when I started this blog was to be able to voice out my take on productivity topics that I am interested in. My own voice quickly faded away once the guest posts started to come in.

2. Losing blog’s focus

This is an obvious consequence of outsourcing this blog. Different authors tend to have different views of common topics. Not only different authors have different ways of thinking but they also have different motives in writing.

3. Losing quality readership

I may have increased my blog exposure by frequent publication of blog posts but I have lost quality readership in return. Outsourcing your blog also means that the articles that you published are just spun posts from other blogs, which leads to:

4. Losing blog identity

Once your blog started to sound like other blogs on your topic domain, you are losing your blog identity. And readers don’t like that.

So, is outsourcing blog a good or bad thing? Blogging, or just plainly web presence in general, is not about search ranking and improving numbers.

What you’d expect from productivitybits.com this 2012?

1. Less frequent posting
2. More quality articles (I hope)
3. No guest authors allowed (except on special case. e.g., book authors)
4. Zero outsourced article
5. Simple blog outline (subject to my taste)
6. Eliminate advertisement (the only one to retain would be the ad in my header because of the 1 year contract, which might get extended if needed)
7. Although I will be eliminating ads going forward, old ones will remain due to the overhead it requires to remove them.
8. More changes as I see fit.

What do you think of these changes?

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