squeeze the most out of the middle
there is a beginning and an ending to everything. summer starts and summer ends. life starts and life ends. jobs start and they eventually end. everything operates within a defined space and time that, though often unknown, is fixed and unchangeable. given this truth (that the end is what and where ever it is) we must seek to impact that…
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- posted at 3:01 pm
- March 26, 2011
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are you creating value?
in business school i was introduced to the idea of creating or destroying value. it was a simple concept most easily understood from the lens of entrepreneurs and corporate leaders who took responsibility for a company at a given worth and, at the end of a certain period of deploying resources (time, money, energy, etc), could be evaluated on whether…
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- posted at 12:47 pm
- March 20, 2011
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there will be tears with that baby
i spoke to a friend on friday who has been trying to bring her dream to life for the last few years and, as she described the emotional turmoil she has experienced (perhaps most evident in the vivid picture she gave as she described balling herself to sleep the other night wondering if she should give up), i couldn’t help…
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- posted at 3:00 pm
- February 13, 2011
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start inching
recently a writer revealed to me the secret behind writing a book, screenplay or any other super long piece of written work. like the best advice always is, his answer was super simple: write every day. the more i thought about it the more i realized this simple idea not only works for writing books, but it also works…for everything.…
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- posted at 12:00 pm
- February 6, 2011
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new year’s resolutions podcast
today i was featured on the connect on blog talk radio. my assignment, write a 2-3 minute inspirational commentary on the show’s subject: new year’s resolutions – do we make them or just break them? below you can hear a podcast from the show (i start at minute 32) or read my outline, which piggybacked off of my birthday wish: a…
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- posted at 9:11 pm
- January 26, 2011
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