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Personal Mission Statement
“Happy talk, keep talking happy talk, Talk about things you’d like to do, You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, How…
May 20, 2008
Go with your strengths, Backstop your weaknesses
None of us are perfect nor, in spite of our best efforts, will we ever be perfect. We all have weaknesses. We need to be…
May 16, 2008
You can’t get enough of what you don’t need
“You can’t get enough of what you don’t need.” You may think you need it, but do you really? Is it what you really are…
May 15, 2008
Don’t Believe Everything They Tell You: The Fuzzy Numbers Behind the Numbers
I love my country. I don’t always trust my government. Take the CPI, the Consumer Price Index: First, there is the current self-serving focus on…
May 13, 2008
Plans are useless, but planning is invaluable
I have a button that says “Spending my life in Plan B.” I think most of us have spent a lot of our lives in…
May 7, 2008
30 Methods of Influence
Listed here are Thirty Methods of Influence from Stephen R. Covey’s “Principle-Centered Leadership,” (Simon & Schuster, pp. 119-128). I could easily write a blog on…
April 28, 2008
Never Major in Minor Things
The New York Times recently reported “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the publicly traded newspaper…
April 14, 2008
Acorns & Forests: Balancing optimism and short-term constraints
I practice realistic optimism. There is a part of me that is a radiant optimist. “I carry the sun in my pocket,” I walk on…
April 11, 2008
I am a “good” finder
I am a good finder: I look for the best in everything and everyone. This is one of my favorite affirmations, part of my personal…
April 10, 2008
Guarding the Gates of Change
Each of us guards our personal gate of change, which only we can open. No one can open the gate of another. Oh, external behaviors…
April 7, 2008
Fear: An Entrepreneur’s Best Friend
“The primary difference between an entrepreneur and a professional business manager, generally speaking, is one of attitude. The entrepreneur, especially when starting out, knows that…
April 4, 2008