Category: Life

How to persuade and influence

Persuasion is a key element of everyday dealings with customers and clients. For a good primer on how to influence others and the importance of finding common ground, check out the animated video below. It outlines the Universal Principles of…

An optimist sees the opportunity

Optimism helps us learn from failure and it stops the downward spiral of negative thinking. The optimist is always willing to try again with a different approach. Here is some science to back me up: “Optimists emerge from difficult circumstances…

It is not the critic who counts

I’ve been accused once or twice of diving headlong into projects.  I move forward quickly instead of waiting for the “perfect” circumstances to come along.  If I fail, I’ll fail knowing that I made the attempt, and learn from my…

Jimmy Dean: 1928-2010

via the Associated Press: Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, “Big Bad John,” and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. I was a big fan…

While in Arkansas

Here’s a quick video of some photos I snapped with my iPhone during my Holiday trip to Arkansas.

While in Santa Fe

I had the opportunity to peruse the fine shops of downtown Santa Fe on my recent visit to New Mexico.  One experience in particular is worthy of a blog post — my visit to the shop of Sky Redhawk, a…

The Right Tools

Today was a vindication of my multi device strategy. I used my blackberry for email, iPhone for web surfing, digital camera for snapping pictures and my nebook to upload them to Flickr. Normally when I travel I have limited access,…

Google Reader Stats II

essay service p>I love Google Reader and like to check out my trends every so often to see how many items I’ve been reading & sharing.  My guess was that the number of read, shared and starred items would have…

Carrying two phones

I have made the tough decision, at least it was tough for me, to lug around two mobile phones.  Why?  It’s part of a much larger strategy to find tools that work for me.  For instance, I just purchased a…