Category: Influence
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What Would You Do For a Girl?
Did you see the story about the 3 boys that jumped into a 12 foot aluminium boat to travel 200 kilometers – in the south pacific – for a girl? First of all, 200 kilometers? Second of all, 12 foot aluminum boat. Third, for a girl. Love can do some…
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Spammers are Smart
Whenever I log on to the dashboard of my blog, I many times will have a spam comment. I’ll check it to make sure there are no false positives, and I am always amazed when I check to see how the spam comments really stroke my ego. They write general…
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The Seduction of Black Friday
I don’t know about you, but my email inbox was inundated with seductive e mails. Not the normal seductive emails – Gmail does a great job of preventing many of those. You should try it if you aren’t using Gmail. The e mails had to do with mainly percentages –…
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Listen and Learn
As a teacher, I get to talk – alot. I get to fill a whole hour. I don’t have to ask a single question. I can just talk, and they have to sit there and follow along. It’s kinda nice. It’s a little addicting. I love it when I get…
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Teaching Kids to Fail
I heard someone say that teachers now are teaching students that already know everything. It’s not possible to teach someone that already knows everything. They can Bing or Google the information much more quickly than a teacher can explain it in the class. The role now these days is not…
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Thoughts About a Life Coach
Every ounce of my being thinks it is the stupidest idea to have a Life Coach. Who needs a Life Coach? It’s a scam. People are just preying on the innocent and the insecure to make a buck. Why would anyone need a Life Coach? Now if you believe in…
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Talk You Into It
Have you ever been talked into – anything? You know that feeling. You might have even done it to someone else. It’s getting convinced to do something – that really you don’t want to do. Now I think there are appropriate times to when talking someone into it is cool…
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LL40: Leadership Mistakes
I watched a pre-game speech from a NFL coach. I can’t remember who the coach was, but I think it was Wade Phillips when HBO followed the Cowboys in the pre-season. In his speech, he told his team that all the mistakes on the field that night was his, and…
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Photocopying Vision
I was at a conference yesterday. Here is the conference that I went to. The speaker was talking about how we photo copy vision. It’s so true. He kept saying that vision that is borrowed is not unique. Photocopied vision from some other place or some other organization won’t work…
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For the Love of Other People’s Money
What is it about the human condition that people want to spend other people’s money? It’s so funny. Do you know what I mean? It’s like you’re one degree of separation away from a billionaire, and for whatever reason, other people have better ideas for how to spend your money. It’s the…
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LL39: Not Just Leadership
I was recently talking to a mentor about the leadership that it takes to run a successful startup. I was expecting him to just talk about the leadership that is necessary to make it successful but what I learned was needed was not just leadership. He listed off several abilities…
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Buy a Shirt, Impact a Life
We are such an engaged and conscientious generation, and it’s awesome. You can buy shoes and shirts that are one for one – where when you buy a shirt or shoe – someone somewhere in the world gets one as well. You can HELP – Help End Local Poverty. My…
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