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Category: Ideas

  • From Idea to Done

    I was talking with a friend about some of her design ideas.  She’s got tons of them.  She’s got great ideas for what she wants to do. Having great ideas is not the problem though.  Making it happen is.  Getting it done is the issue.  Until I see a mock…

  • Training the Lizard Brain

    In post graduate school, we focused so much on the mind and our minds hurting that we almost discounted the brain.  The brain is just the physical stuff in our heads right?  The mind is what’s most important – or so I thought for the past few years. I’ve been…

  • Twitter Ticker Tape

    I was watching the SAG awards last night.  They were sitting at the red carpet interviewing celebrities, and it’s so fascinating to me that they have random tweets of all sorts of people (typically celebs) on the tickertape at the bottom of the screen.  It’s not the first time I’ve…

  • Camp Presentations

    I spoke at a camp last weekend.  It was the college/career camp of Faith Bible Church Vallejo.  The camp was in South Lake Tahoe, and I had the opportunity to speak at 4 sessions.  The theme of the camp was – who you are in Christ equals the energy that…

  • There’s No Manual

    I have been reading Linchpin – and I have been writing my insights – not so much about the book itself, but the application of the ideas from the book to my life. Seth talks about this idea of a manual.  If you have a job that has a manual…

  • One of Mine

    Awhile ago, I posted about quotes, but none of them were mine.  I thought I’d share one.  I guess you can just take a look at any of my past posts and quote any of them, but here’s one that I shared – I think in an instant message to…

  • LL27: Personal Leadership Development

    I have not shared any of my leadership lessons (the ones that I’m learning) in awhile.  I’ve actually been wanting to write this one though. I was thinking about how I would teach my students how to develop a Personal Leadership Development Plan.  Here’s what I came up with. 1.…

  • Mechanized People

    In Linchpin the new Seth Godin book, he talks about the factory and how the factory has mechanized products.  A hundred years ago, Ford mechanized the car factory and started pumping out more cars in the process.  The production of products was mechanized to create more products with fewer people…

  • Linchpin

    I got the new book by Seth Godin – Linchpin today.  I haven’t started reading it.  It doesn’t go on sale until January 26th, and I’ll probably have it read by then.  Honestly, I have on idea what it’s about, but if you have it as well, let’s read it…

  • How We Think

    There are 2 systems – or so my current book that I’m reading Nudge tells me.  It’s a fascinating book so far. I wanted to share the 2 types of systems.  It’s relatively easy and obvious, but unless you spend time thinking about it’s really not something you’d normally think…

  • Haiti and HELP (Help End Local Poverty)

    I was talking to my friend Jasen Ashdown – jasenashdown.com – (check him out and follow him).  He is a part of HELP (Help End Local Poverty).  They’re doing a ton of stuff for Haiti, but one of the the things that they’re doing to raise money is selling these…

  • Quoted on Your Writing

    A friend of mine walked into my office today.  He was telling me about this wonderful article that he had printed for a paper that he was doing for graduate studies.  He showed me the article, and it happened to be one that I had published a few years ago. …