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Thursday, July 24th, 2008

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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 […]

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 […]

The art of infusion

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Photo by fabio_pinheiro 
This is a bit off the beaten path of a regular post, but it does illustrate the kinds of things you can learn as a business owner (and if you’re not learning something new all the time, you should be…).  Specifically I have learned how to infuse Pineapple (pictured above) into Vodka to […]

I think the Europeans have it right…

Friday, May 30th, 2008

photo by rhettmaxwell 
European countries tend to have at least 6 weeks of vacation per year.
Actually the more important point - not only do they have that much vacation time, but they actually take the time off and use it!!!
By contrast, the US is averaging about 16.6 days of vacation (according to a study in 2004) […]

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