check out jeff bezos, ceo of amazon, commencement speech, “we are what we choose.”  seems like jeff and i think a lot alike. “Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life — the life you author from scratch on your own — begins. How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will [...]

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last week i wrote a post suggesting that we are all designers and advising that we should not forget to see ourselves as designers and to take a design approach to everything in our life. and while we will design a plethora of things during the years we have on this earth, i offer up [...]

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the old school philosophy of design only being applicable to architects, engineers, and the likes is dying. design has taken on a much broader definition that is applicable to anyone who is seeking to create change. herbert simon once said: “everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” if [...]

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close your eyes and start dreaming. use your imagination and envision life not as you see it, but as you desire it to be. chase it. once you finish dreaming, whatever it is that you just imagined, go hard and pursue it without consideration of surrender or abandonment. grow your dreams repeat. that’s it.  easy [...]

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