building or dreading

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building or dreading

View Comments 09 June 2010

“…if you dread tomorrow, it’s because you don’t know how to build the present, and when you don’t know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it’s a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today…” -from the elegance of the hedgehog love this quote i [...]

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are you doing it enough?

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are you doing it enough?

View Comments 18 April 2010

you say it’s important and so you are doing it. great! but are you doing it enough? or, are you doing it just so you can say you are? or so that other people see you? or so that you can be just like everyone else? anything that is important… anything that can be a [...]

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how quick are you gonna get up?

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how quick are you gonna get up?

View Comments 21 February 2010

in life, there will always be problems, challenges, and setbacks of all shapes and sizes.  it comes with the program.  unfortunately, there is no perfect journey.  too often we allow these issues to overtake and overpower us.  too often, when faced with these challenges we take our eyes off the prize and get stuck in [...]

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are you focused on the wrong brand?

View Comments 24 July 2009

too often we get selfish.  too often we worry more about our ourselves than we do others.  too often we worry about making sure we look good or that it looks like we delivered great results when we really didn’t.  too often we worry about our bonus instead of making sure we grow the business [...]

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new zealand gets naked, what about you?

View Comments 16 July 2009

it’s an attention economy and air new zealand is taking it all off in order to compete (you may need to rewatch the video again if you didn’t notice their uniforms are completely painted on).  imagine, they have a captive audience who has had most things that could potentially distract them taken away from them [...]

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what do people think of when they think about your brand?

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what do people think of when they think about your brand?

View Comments 08 July 2009

yesterday i was sitting in a room getting customer feedback on our mylinia blog (still a work in progress) when i asked a customer (and friend) what her takeaway was from a certain blog post. Her response, ‘it’s about following your passions.’ i immediately knew something was funky

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