Reflections

To This Day for the Bullied and Beautiful

March 11, 2013

Beautiful, haunting, poetic “to this day” for the bullied and beautiful If you don’t see this here, click this link for the original on YouTube.

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Two Entrepreneurial Relationships: Uncertainty, and Real People

March 7, 2013

Hardly surprising that I recommend Befriending Uncertainty on Stephen Lahey’s Small Business Talent podcast, released yesterday: he interviewed me.  There’s a lot about relationships in that interview. Important entrepreneurial relationships:  Your spouse, partner (life partner, not just business partner — and maybe both), and family. I think it’s important to manage your priorities so you [...]

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A Marketing Expert’s Must-Read Advice on Living Better

November 30, 2012

I’m proud to say John Jantsch, the world’s number one expert on small business marketing,  is a friend of mine. I’ve worked with him for years and I’ve learned a lot from him. For example, I still use his definition of marketing (“getting people to know, like, and trust you”) almost daily.  His wisdom has [...]

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Gratitude is Good For Your Health

November 22, 2012

Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. It’s supposed to be about getting together and giving thanks. My contribution to the Thanksgiving holiday is to recommend a Google search on the correlation between gratitude and health. It turns out that there are indications that being thankful is good for us all. It’s good [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut, Music, and Proof of God

October 16, 2012

(I went hiking in some beautiful mountains over the weekend, with one of my daughters, and decided to repost this one from 2007, just slightly changed. I can’t believe it’s been more than five years since this was first posted. I feel like it’s as timely as ever.)  “If I should ever die, God forbid, [...]

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The Best Country in the World

July 4, 2012

On July 4 we celebrate Independence Day in the U.S. I like the sentiment expressed in this HBO series, from about the third to the eighth minute 3 (3:23 to 8:00). And please stay with it through the positive portion, after the rant, beginning at 6:44). This is from a new HBO series called The [...]

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Only If You Don’t Say So Yourself

July 3, 2012

In 10 Ways You Should Never Describe Yourself, on Inc.Com, Jeff Haden makes an extremely important distinction. He writes: Here are some words that are great when used by other people to describe you, but you should never use to describe yourself.  For example: motivated, creative, guru, passionate, innovative. Jeff lists 10 of them.  I didn’t [...]

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Turning Noise into Music

June 24, 2012

Someone told me Friday that we’re not human beings anymore, but human doings. We’re all about doing. Not about being.   “It’s all noise,” she said. “So much noise.”  She was referring to always being connected. The smart phone, the email everywhere, Twitter, Facebook, constantly checking in. Always focused on pendings and priorities. Doing so [...]

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Reflections on Martin Luther King and Leadership

January 16, 2012

How do you measure great leadership? Inspiring people? Changing the world? Remaining true to oneself while fighting for larger truth? Eloquence? Honesty? Power? However you measure it, Martin Luther King was a great leader. He was courageous, inspirational, eloquent, and amazingly effective. He changed the world while standing for right against wrong, not letting the [...]

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Surprising Truths About Motivations

January 9, 2012

Do you know the RSA Animate technique? Have you seen it before? This is a great example, and it’s also a good business lesson, about motivation. What’s surprising? Well, to start out, money doesn’t motivate people to do thinking tasks better. It does for simple mechanical tasks — people work harder for more money — [...]

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