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  • Leading a Movement

    I watched a Seth Godin video again on Tribes. When you leave something for awhile and you listen again, you’re able to pick up things that you’ve missed from previous viewings. According to Seth, what’s important is leading a movement and anyone in any field can do this. This time…

  • Suffering and Creativity

    Thoughts about the mystery of creativity. I watched again today, a talk that Elizabeth Gilbert gave. You can find it on ted.com and I’ll add it to the post. I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a super creative person. Maybe I am and I just don’t know it yet. Maybe I…

  • Family Center of Focus

    My sister in law is going to have a baby soon. We are so excited about it. It’ll be the first baby for my wife’s family. My wife is such an excited – aunt for Hazel. I am enjoying the festivities. I am enjoying the shopping for Hazel. I am…

  • Your thoughts about your thoughts

    It was such a surreal experience – to think about your own thoughts. I’m sure subconsciously that I’ve done that before, but yesterday I thought about my thoughts in a way that I had never realized. I enjoyed it. It helped me to process through what I think about something.…

  • World of If 2

    So I posted about the World of If 02.19. Click on the red to read it, and if you don’t, it’s it basically talks about living in a hypothetical world. Some live in this hypothetical world of if-living in a make believe world-a world that isn’t real at all. I…

  • Cromartie Tweet

    The Cromartie tweet is news. It’s awesome. One tweet that was meant to be funny – has become a news piece flashing across the screen on espn and the morning news. It won’t be the last time someone will “read” into something. It happens – even with the best intentions,…

  • Update on Kiva

    I posted about how I am a lender to entrepreneurs through Kiva.org.  Here is my previous post. Kiva has an amazing business plan. You give them money which they in turn give to an entrepreneur that has applied for a loan – typically in a poverty stricken country. They pay…

  • Thought changing thoughts

    I was listening to a talk today, and the guy giving the talk described an event that he experienced that changed the way that he thought about everything after that.  He had a thought that affected all of his thoughts after that thought. He was doing research for his next…

  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

    I just finished Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. 4 out of 5 points. You can read Malcolm’s review of his own book as well as some background information about it by clicking on the red title in this post. Basically, it is a book about snap judgments and rapid cognition. The…

  • Update on LL3

    I need to add an update on Leadership Lesson 3. First, as a reminder, Leadership Lessons are my leadership lessons. These are not lessons that I’m teaching. These are lessons that I’m learning, and I happen to be sharing them. Second, the update. I was reading a book yesterday when…

  • Need Drama

    I have this theory that everyone needs drama in their life. I don’t have real theory to back it up.  I haven’t really looked for it, but it seems to me that everyone needs drama.  Everyone has drama in their life.  No one has a perfect life – well, let…

  • LL4: What drives leadership

    What drives leadership? At one point, I couldn’t stand the conversation about leadership. It just seemed like books were being written on leadership that would claim that these are the laws or these are the steps that you need to follow in order to become a leader. It always left…