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Friday, August 27th, 2010In the Charles’s list of life rules, I have one called “allow endings”. I stole most of these from @jack at twitter, but I agree with them wholeheartedly. I posted them way back when as a direct challenge to myself, of course. What I’ve realized in selling as long as I have is that people [...]
Humility
Monday, August 16th, 2010As my birthday passes this year, I want to spend a short stint on humility. It’s a hard one. I came from the same 60′s and 70′s when your parents were right and you were always wrong. Problem is, we aren’t smart enough to figure out what a recipe for disaster this is. This doesn’t [...]
Rebuilding
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010[written with "Faithfully" by Journey blasting] This has been one roller coaster of a summer. But looking at 45 in four days I know it’s all for a good reason. Like any good sports team, we all have rebuilding years. Thankfully my front office is solid. That’s the key. You will make a lot of [...]
TED Talks: Chip Conley
Thursday, June 24th, 2010I love TED Talks and could probably spend two weeks watching all of them. I ran across this really good and interesting talk Chip Conley gives on deciding what “counts” and what to count and what in life is worth the focus. Boy, this is a good time for me to consider the subject. How [...]
Journey “Faithfully” video
Saturday, June 19th, 2010Boy, I remember trying my damnedest to have the mullet of Steve Perry like in this great video. Those were THE actual days my friend.
The value of boredom
Thursday, June 17th, 2010Peter Bregman has an interesting post in the Harvard Business Review Blog about the value of boredom. Check it out.
Be Nice
Friday, May 14th, 2010Peter Shankman {thanks for the quick Jamba meeting this week Peter!} posts a reminder that we can all stop and treat everyone in our day-to-day a little bit better. I agree, it has become a “me me” world. I’m one of those me’s. I’m not immune. I sent this out by email earlier and it’s funny how much interest [...]
Some things remain the same – thankfully
Monday, March 29th, 2010I arrived back at my track clinic last Tuesday with a little hesitation. After all, I hadn’t been there for more than two years and the crew there is into it. These are people that don’t skip much. Also, the 6000 meters I was about to run wasn’t going to be spectacularly fun – it’s hard work. I [...]
Tears for Fears: How I Got Here From There aka Take That Chance
Monday, March 22nd, 2010Thanks to a chance encounter (shout out to @campbrand), we went to the Tears for Fears’s (TFF) concert last night at the Wiltern. It was a long, delayed opening and then… and then… we were all swept back to the mid-80′s like we never left. Smith started on a wonderful bit of “Mad World”. Then we [...]
Resetting the home-based worker environment
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Working at home like I have for over eight years is no picnic. If you’re in my boat, you know it’s a big uphill climb — every day. For sure, there is lots of upside. But we pay for the freedom as well. Our psyche pays too. Thinking today about how the home-based crew — me [...]
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