Category: Influence
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The Song We Sing Shape Us
My friend Justin had posted on Facebook this YouTube video of a song that I sang growing up. Here’s the video that he posted: He states on his stutus update that we tend to pass on our prejudices through the songs that we teach our children. We sang this song…
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Your TV Show
I was talking with a friend tonight, and he is the creator/producer of a show. This show is about to get picked up. How cool would it be to get creator/producer credits for a tv show? I would like that. Now, I am always thinking about the identity angle for…
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Herod: A Bigger Picture
Here is another reflection from the recent Israel trip. You might not care about Herod the Great, but I do have an identity feature that I want to share in light of these ideas – one of my identity features anyway. Hopefully, you connect with it as well. Whenever I…
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There Isn’t a Book for What You Want to Do
I think it’s one of my false fixed ideas – that there is a book out there for what it is that you want to do. When I first became a professor, I wanted to find a book to teach me how to do that. I bought a few books,…
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The Rock of Gibraltar Lesson
A friend of mine shared this story/analogy with me. Back when the entire world centered around the Mediterranean Sea, the Rock of Gibraltar was a symbol and marker that you are leaving the safety of all that is known. As explorers would sail off into the New World, the Rock of Gibraltar…
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Telling Your Story
There is something so liberating about telling your story. We all have one. You might not know your story, but you are living yours. I guess before you can tell your story, you have to know it. If you don’t know your story – I guess you’re not free. Your…
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Change the World
I see it alot. There are tons of places that want to change the world. I just graduated, and the phrase was all over the place. I didn’t even know that it was a phrase that they were using. Now, I totally get it. I’ve talked about changing the world.…
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My Klout Influential Topics
I never check my Klout scores. It only means something to Klout people. I recently checked and happened to see my most influential topics. Since I only connect with Twitter and not Facebook, these are topics from just tweets. I’ll list them with a comment or two, and I don’t…
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Sneaking in the Radio
I heard that in an interview yesterday. They were talking about growing up in a conservative Christian home where they weren’t allowed to listen to certain types of music. They had to sneak to listen to the radio. I connected with that. I did that. I thought about the impact…
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Planning = Controlled
Planning is optimal in a controlled environment. When everything in the situation is under control – plans work. When plans are made in a context that it is not controlled – plans don’t always work. The situation changes. Feelings get hurt. Plans work when it is controlled. Leadership is needed…
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Denial Mechanism
We all have them. We cannot avoid them. We all have our issues when it comes to this. If you’re denying it – then my point is made. The denial mechanism is not the thing to worry about – there is nothing that you can do about that – or…
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Hiding Behind a Blog
You know what they say about opinions right? I love the ability and the freedom that we have when we blog. We can express ideas that we might be working on. We can share our opinions with our readers. We can say whatever we want – and hopefully we’re adding…
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