A New Year

“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.”
-James Agate
To sum this one up, appreciate the difficult or those who provide it as tests to make you better, but be choosey of what you spend your energy on and who you spend [...]

Simple things

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
-Leonardo da Vinci
This past year was full of strife, frustration, challenge and growth and one thing I [...]

Personal Elevator Pitch

Some quick little nuggets for sharing the best of you with others. Whether work or life, something worth thinking about as we plan to introduce the 2010 version of each one of us in just a couple weeks.
Thanks to keff Jinch III for sharing.
3 Tips for Perfecting Your Personal Elevator Pitch A personal 30-second [...]

Things happen for you, not to you

For those of you who did not get the direct link for my documentary yesterday, its below:

For today…
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
~James Allen
Things happen for you, not to you…is something someone shared with me the other day. I was having [...]

Over Focused

He’s told us how to start a business and how to save the newspaper industry. Now he tells us (too late) how to be a college kid.
From Mark Cuban:
Got this email today, and decided to share it and my response as a message to college kids out there that are pretty much the [...]

Obama’s Big Sellout

The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway

Thanks to Jeff Kinch for sending over this article. A very interesting read.
MATT TAIBBI Posted Dec 09, 2009 2:35 PM
Watch Matt Taibbi discuss “The Big Sellout” in a video on his blog, Taibblog.
Barack Obama [...]

Let them test you

“Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life.”
-Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes (Dalai Lama, b.1935)
I was talking with a couple friends last week about life situations, that included tough bosses and random unpleasant people that were just not happy in life and decide to take [...]

Christmas Cheer

So I was thinking of who is going to be on my Christmas Card list this year. Really, my list is usually pretty short as my family is small. I have been contemplating, do you send out more cards to a wider group of people, with a thank you or something short, or [...]

The Jack5ons

“I don’t think people understand the loss of Michael as a brother as compared to a pop star.”
-Marlon Jackson, 2009
I had the opportunity to watch “This is it” the new Michael Jackson movie a few weeks ago. As a movie it was ok, as a documentary and history piece was very engaging. To [...]

Have you been learned?

Some great comments on Adam’s post this morning. Really makes you stop and think when you walk by those less fortunate in the cold weather. I have heard before many just want to be acknowledge like they exist instead of us staring off into the distance pretending they are not there. No [...]

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