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my birthday request to all of you

happy 2011!  as always, when i’ve been gone for a while i feel bad.  the new promotion, new engagement, and vacation has had me tied up.  but no excuses.  all i can say right now is that, it’s been a long time; i shouldn’t have left you.  but it’s 2011 and i am going to turn a new leaf in consistency (per…

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how marketing helped me propose

if you have been reading my blog you know that one of my fundamental beliefs is that there is much that we can learn about how to approach marketing from life and vice versa.  i call them lifemark principles. well, three weekends ago i got engaged and what better time to apply everything i learned from marketing, right?  after all,…

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be great everyday

a few weeks ago i wrote a post on how we are all one day away from greatness, but i understand that there is a another piece to the story. being recognized as great can often take a bit of fate, luck, opportunity, and/or spiritual intervention. sometimes it takes the right boss, the right client, the right interview, or the…

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don’t be fooled by the expert or overconfident

a few weeks ago i was surfing around on the predictably irrational blog and found two interesting articles.  the takeaway from one article was that when we receive expert advice it has the potential to make decision making software in your brain shut off.  in other words, science has shown that we blindly follow experts, even when their advice is…

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