Category: Ideas
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Extreme Efficiency
It’s kind of a big deal for us today in modern society. We want to make things faster. We want to do more with less. You’ve heard the catch phrases. In business, in education, in love, we want extreme efficiency. I was at TEDxAFC and there was a speaker that…
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Design a Beautiful Day
There are some of you out there that absolutely can’t stand cognitive exercises. You know what I’m talking about – the ones that get you to think through something – hypothetically or theoretically 0r simply to make you dream about what if. This post isn’t for you. But for those…
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Friends that You Don’t Know
I have tons of friends, but I realize that I have tons of friends that I don’t know. You know what I mean? Friends that I’ve met online and have never met or seen in the flesh. I follow their blog. I follow their tweets. I don’t even remember how…
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The Measurement of Friendship
I am sure that there are many ways of measuring friendship. But how do you determine how much of a friend someone is? I was talking to a friend this am. Actually, it was a text conversation, and we had a great conversation about – alot of things. At one…
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Americans Don’t Like to Be Told
………well, pretty much anything. We don’t like to be told that we can’t do it. That’s kind of a big one. We don’t like to be told what have to do. Try that one out today. We don’t like to be told how to act. We don’t like to be…
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Music and Dopamine
Good music releases dopamine. Dopamine makes you happy. Good music makes you happy. It is a natural high. It is a feel good chemical in our brain. There is some good neuroscience explanations for why that happens, but you can go Google that on your own. Sometimes I listen to…
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Making a Decision
You can really learn alot about a person by how they make decisions. You can learn alot about yourself when you make a decision. Decisions, no matter how simple, touches the deep aspects of who we are. It shows your personality – in how you process the information (MBTI Thinking…
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Negative Space
It’s always great to write a post and realize that I had already titled another post with the same title. Here’s my previous post about Negative Space having to do with the space between thoughts and breaths. Today, I had a conversation with a friend about unrealistic expectations. We are all…
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Your Greatness
….all depends on the challenges that you’ve experienced in your life. You cannot know how great you can be unless you work through some challenges. We all experience challenges. Those that work through it can know how great they are. Talk to great people. They’ll point to the challenges that…
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The Blank Page
I am going to start using my notebook/journal more. My macbook allows me to do so much. I can take notes and tweet and update all in the same place. I’m watching the Apple Keynote from earlier this week. They’ve added a Reader into Safari – because there’s so much…

