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The end of 2011 is pretty much here and it’s time for my annual look back and look forward. I’m changing some things up this year. I’m not going to go through my 2011 goals because I didn’t come close to hitting any of them. Frankly, they were pretty audacious, and in retrospect I realize [...]
“Everything you done to me has already been done to you.” – The Color Purple This past weekend I spent some time catching up on some TV programs that I’d recorded but hadn’t had much time to get to. Some of them were 8 months old and that included many of the final shows of [...]
Brian Tracy tells the story of a company that needed a repair person to come in and help them diagnose a problem they were having with some of their equipment. The man came in, spent a day going over everything, then the next day came in and put a big “X” on a gauge. He [...]
Everyone has a period in their lives when things aren’t going quite right. I had that period from May through early September when I had three major things going on in my life, two of them financial, one of them personal. I’m not a religious person, so I don’t have religion to fall back on. [...]
“When you know better you do better.” ― Maya Angelou I was watching the program Oprah’s Life Stories last night, but not the live show she had on. Instead I watched an episode I had taped where she had brought back some former white supremacists that had been on her show in 1989 and had [...]
I loved the Star Wars movies. My favorite character, of course, is Yoda, just as my favorite Star Trek character is Mr. Spock. I love the logic and the way both think in their respective roles. I can truthfully say I’ve learned a lot over the years by adopting a Mr. Spock style, if you [...]
In my last post on the topic of focus, I talked about making a list of points about focus, only to lose that list by doing something stupid on Excel. Turns out that what I’d done somehow was create a brand new spreadsheet which didn’t include anything; my original spreadsheet was just fine, with my [...]
