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“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 [...]
“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 [...]
I was putting together my plans for writing this particular post. I had decided to write on the topic of focus. I pulled up Excel and started making a list of the things focus will help you do. It wasn’t a bad list from what I remember. I say that because I heard a noise. [...]
“People always say to me that motivation doesn’t work because you often have to motivate people every day. I say to those people that we also should eat and bathe every day and that I highly recommend it.” – Zig Ziglar Although some people might not believe it after reading this post about not being [...]
