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“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine How good do we have to be? How much is…
January 4, 2011
If Not Now, When?
The fourth in a series of blog posts appealing, beseeching, imploring YOU to design a written life plan for the coming year! Life happens. Time…
December 30, 2010
Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!
Third in a series of blog posts urging, begging, pleading with you to turbo-charge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for the coming year! I think…
December 29, 2010
Dealing with Business Risk
Real estate development (versus acquisition of existing rental communities) is a major part of what I do. There is out there the saw that real…
December 16, 2010
Live Long and Prosper: Your Choice
A Swedish study of identical twins separated at birth and reared apart found that genes accounted for only 20 to 30 percent of a long…
December 15, 2010
Memo to My Company
Please, please promise never to do this to our customers! Whenever I experience a mediocre customer service encounter, I think, “How can I learn from…
December 7, 2010
A Nation of Sheep?
WARNING: This is a populist, patriotic “Live Free or Die” posting, a departure from my norm of personal leadership, containing Founding Fathers, Tea Party-style thoughts,…
December 3, 2010
One Worry
An article ran in a recent Wall Street Journal suggesting that one of the biggest issues facing executives is time management. It reminded me of…
November 23, 2010
Every Yes is a No
Most of us are limited in some respect, often by time, money, or energy. This is true for organizations as well as individuals. It is…
November 16, 2010
Mental Muscles
About 6 o’clock one recent Saturday morning I went downstairs and did a few reps on a Nautilus machine. The longer I live, the more…
November 9, 2010
Small Secrets
I find that many people subscribe to some version of the “big secret” theory of life, also known by its variants “the lottery” theory and…
October 28, 2010