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What To Do In 2010 – My Resolution

Sometime in 2007, Guy Kawasaki replied to an email of mine, saying:
“If you still haven’t reached your goals, you’re not trying hard enough!”
I nodded my head in agreement. It was exactly how I felt – all the time.
Every Type A personality, every compulsive workaholic, every ambitious over-achiever will likely empathize.
And as I look back [...]

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Women Who Inspire Me

Other than the two women who inspire me most – my wife, and my daughter – there are some more whom you too may want to meet and know who are special in my life.
Meet Gail Lynn Goodwin
A year ago, on Twitter, Gail asked if anyone could connect her to Sir.Richard Branson, as she wanted [...]

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A Heart Kid's Story

Five years ago, in a little village miles away from urban modernity, a young couple had a baby boy. He grew up slower than others like him, was often breathless, and caught chest colds easily.
And on his fifth birthday, he weighed barely 10 kilograms.
His grandfather finally had had enough. Scraping together his meager [...]

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Why I Liked "This Is It"

Every Michael Jackson fan should watch “This Is It”. No question about it. You WILL love it!
Others who don’t really love Michael’s music may not be wildly excited about watching the King of Pop rehearse for what would most certainly have been a musical extravanganza to blow our minds.
Anyway, “This Is It” mattered [...]

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Barbers, Movies & Minds

Today, I had a haircut and watched a movie.
Nothing spectacular – yet it was special. Here’s how.
Ready to step out, I asked my wife and daughter (rhetorically!):
“Which barber should I visit? The usual one? Or someone new?”
The two young ladies in my life glanced quickly at each other, smiled, and then one [...]

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Being IN the Long Tail of Non-Profits

Chris Anderson’s “Long Tail”, as a concept, exists in the world of non-profits too. And I’m right IN it!
This morning, I was reading Beth Kanter’s post on how to leverage non-profits on Twitter, and saw that Twitter (the social media network with several million users) was now featuring a list of “suggested users” – [...]

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Was My Choice Right?

A suddenly intense wave of emotion washed over me as I sat staring at my computer screen this morning, contemplating my work week.
Had I made a different choice ten years earlier, I might be fighting off a crowd of people who called in weeks ahead to fix an appointment to meet me and hand over [...]

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On The Threshold

Image credit sxc.hu
In a few days, an event for which I’ve planned and prepared for months will take place. On August 25th, 2009 I will officially ‘launch’ my first ever print book,
“Think, Write & Retire – How To Turn Words Into Wealth, Easily!“
On the threshold of this special moment, there are mixed feelings. [...]

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#WPSS

This tweet got me started:
Try your own flash fiction piece for the #LiteraryTwestival – must be only one tweet long and use the #wpss tag.
I learned more about the #WPSS (West Port Short Story) meme from these Twitter posts:
Why not take part in the first #LiteraryTwestival challenge? Compose a short story in just one tweet, [...]

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Automatons

It hit me with a flash today. Some people are automatons.
I’ve seen this in two extremes – very bored, and very (too?) successful.
The very bored can be folks stuck in dull, repetitive jobs which they need for the money. There’s no challenge, no variety, no excitement.
He’s the janitor listlessly pushing his mop around [...]

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