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The Science of Change

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

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Photo by Kyknoord 
At this point it’s pretty much a cliche that Change is hard.  What’s new is the scientific understanding of why it’s hard to change - and how that understanding can help make change occur.
Unfortunately for a […]

Are you scared of Online Marketing?

Monday, July 28th, 2008

photo by BGLewandowski 
A friend of mine - we’ll call him Dave to protect the innocent, recently met with a local Online Marketing company to learn more about how to get started with online marketing - specifically email marketing (sending online newsletters to contacts that you know).
It turned out to be a scary encounter…
I wasn’t at […]

Check out this great resource!

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

You may have heard of TED - no, not the weird guy down the street, but the annual conference on Technology, Entertainment and Design.
It’s been going on since 1984 and every year it’s expanded to become bigger and better.
The focus of TED is to bring together interesting people and challenge them to give the talk […]

What are your Big Five For Life?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Have you ever had the experience of suddenly having a new insight into something? 
It could be during a heated conversation when you suddenly understand where the other person is coming from (and why they’re mad…) or sometimes you can ‘have the lights turned on’ when you’re listening to a particularly talented speaker.
It only took 15 […]

What are your guiding principles?

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

photo by MumbleyJoe 
Stand
In the place where you live
Now face north
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven’t before
Now stand
In the place where you work
Now face west
Think about the place where you live
Wonder why you haven’t before
REM - Stand
I had an interesting discussion today where the question was asked to me:
“If you could make $100,000 a year just […]

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