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This is not my writing. I don't remember where I got it. I found it years ago. If you wrote this or know where it came from let me know so I can give the author their props. I love it and I've gotten better sleep because of it. Since you need better sleep I thought I'd share it. I don't do them all religiously, but a few major ones will make a major difference. I have a few friends (and you know … [Read more...]
Not that I ever had a game... but I love the game of basketball. Not the professional kind, but the driveway kind. I still try to squeeze in a one-on-one or a pick-0up game now and then and NCAA's March Madness has the same 'spirit of sport' as a good game of driveway basketball. The pros can't touch it. I never played college or professional sports but in my adult life I've had a few what I … [Read more...]
Since I'm not likely to live forever part of the plan to leave a good-looking corpse is to avoid unnecessary stress. If you're on the same plan, then driving in metro traffic can thwart your stress-free efforts, especially if you’re prone to road rage. We've all at one time or another further frustrated our inner road demon by yelling, screaming and making obscene gestures at other … [Read more...]
In today's world of email, social media, webinars, teleclasses, conference calls and really stupid gas prices, I rarely attend a face-to-face meeting. Having attended one recently, I've found that things haven't changed. People show up late. I've noticed it in the cyberworld too, but I guess seeing it again face-to-face just brought it back in full force as one of my pet peeves. Today, people have … [Read more...]
Abracadabra. Open sesame. Hocus-pocus. No matter what we believed as kids or how hard we try, these legendary magic words just don't work. They won't make anything appear or disappear - they won't open doors. In the fairy tales, myths and legends of our youth, words like these worked seemingly impossible miracles and often cleared the path through unforeseen dangers. But in today’s real, … [Read more...]
I am politically incorrect. Why? Because people tend to ask questions they really don't want to know your answer to. The politically correct thing to do on my part would be to blow smoke up their butts. Instead often to my own social and political detriment, I follow the advice I first heard from Mom - "If you don't really want to know, you'd better ask somebody else." So in light of my … [Read more...]
Computer Love is like reading and writing - you just gotta know how to do it to survive! It took me a couple of years to get the whole alphabet, grammar, sentence structure, comprehension thing down, but that was a couple of grade school years well spent! Learning some Computer Love is no different, get the ABCs of it now and it'll serve you for a lifetime. Look at it from this … [Read more...]
In my speaker coaching business I have a two-page document that spells out the rules of the road. It defines my professional relationship with the speaker, outlines our objectives, sets policy and assigns accountability. It’s brief but detailed, pretty serious and well thought out based on my experiences inside of coaching relationships. However, upon seeing it a number of speakers have … [Read more...]
When I was in my early teens, raising as much hell as I could without getting into SERIOUS trouble, my mom gave me a framed copy of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. I guess I really didn't think much of it, but I hung it on my bedroom wall in the basement anyway. At 17 I 'ran away' to the Air Force and left it hanging there on the wall, guarding the rest of my childhood stuff. Two … [Read more...]
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