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  • LL40: Leadership Mistakes

    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…

  • If You Tell Yourself That You’re Beautiful

    If You Tell Yourself That You’re Beautiful

    ….then you will become beautiful.  Beauty has a little to do with how you look.  It has more to do with what you believe about yourself.   I’ve known tons of beautiful people who didn’t believe that they were – so no matter how much you tell them, they won’t…

  • Do You Know How to Wonder?

    Do You Know How to Wonder?

    Arouse Astonishment Marvel Surprise Admiration To be filled with curiosity or doubt Awe inspiring Inexplicable Miracle Superior Exciting Strange Inquiry Wonder – it’s such a beautiful integration of thinking and feeling – knowing and not knowing.   This picture was taken by my good friend Drason Anderson – You should…

  • BJ and the Bear

    BJ and the Bear

    So I told DC about the show BJ and the Bear tonight – she had no clue what I was talking about.  The show premiered February of 1979.  I watched this show growing up.  If you don’t know what it’s about – it was a tv show about a Trucker…

  • Your Inner Guttenberg

    Your Inner Guttenberg

    There was a time when spreading ideas wasn’t so easy.  Books had to be written by hand.  Ideas traveled slowly.  It’s difficult for me to imagine a world without books or newspapers. Guttenberg changed all of that.  With his printing press, he was able to spread ideas much more easily.…

  • My Dr Identity

    My Dr Identity

    I am not yet Dr. Lem Usita.  I’m working on it.  In fact, I worked on it all day.  I’ve worked on it for years. I have never been motivated by one day being called Dr.  In fact, when I get it, I will not make anyone call me that.…

  • Practice Your Identity

    Practice Your Identity

    I went on a walk today with my dogs at our normal park that we go for walks at.  There’s a huge field there and there are always games and practice at the fields.  After tonight’s walk, I was hit with the idea that these kids – soccer today –…

  • TED Talks

    TED Talks

    I know that I’ve shared this before, but I want to share again with my new readers.  I know that many of you know about the TED talks, and I just wanted to share my profile and my favorites. Check it out here. If you have some favorites or if…

  • Blogging and New Friends

    I have met so many people just by blogging.  I can’t tell you how many great people that I have met and interacted with – on my blog, in the comments, on Facebook, on their blogs, on Twitter.  It’s been fun to meet people from all over the world –…

  • Always On

    Always On

    I heard Seth Godin say that we have the technology to continually be connected every hour of the day.  I have heard Leo Laporte talk about Twitter being this megaphone where everyone is talking and no one really is listening.  I’ve read where Tim Ferris creates more time for other…

  • Ousted

    Ousted

    Hello – my name is Lem, and it’s been 40 days since I’ve “checked in.” I’m getting a quite a few emails from Foursquare that I was just ousted from a place where I previously held the mayorship. It was first a matter of becoming the mayor of as many…

  • Seduction

    Seduction

    I recently wrote about Power.  I read a book on it.  Here’s the post.  Well, his next book is on seduction.  I’m not that far into it, but it is definitely connected to power and in many cases leadership. Here’s the book cover – If you do a Google search…