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How To Be an Artist by Sark

How to Be an Artist- by Sark Our friends the Teem’s have this poster hanging in their children’s bedroom. I wonder what shape my life would have taken, had I […]

How to Explain Your Idea Simply

How to Explain Your Idea Simply I’ve suffered through so many unnecessarily complicated presentations, speakers, films, interviews, talks, articles, PowerPoint decks, conference calls, white papers, websites, case studies, user documents-the […]

Graffiti Your Walls to Frame Your Life Story

We are rebooting our life and starting over. Starting last April, we began dismantling our old life piece by piece. We sold everything we owned, sold our house, changed up our work, and […]

What Planes, Trains and Automobiles Taught Me About Hiring Smart

What Planes, Trains and Automobiles Taught Me About Hiring Smart Hire Smart. Don’t hire someone that you wouldn’t enjoy during a twelve-hour car ride through a snowstorm. The week before Christmas, […]

Never give up, but be ready to revise at any moment

Never give up. Never stop trying. Never quit. Never throw in the towel. Never stop having hope your plan will work. Keep your hands on the plow. Keep doing the work. At the same […]

Strategies For Living: Don’t be a jerk

I love this one. Jerks often don’t even know they are being a “jerk” (I’m keeping this PG-rated. Feel free to swap terms for mature audiences). If you’re someone who yells, […]

Redefining Success: Straddle the Fence of Work & Family

Redefining Success: Straddle the Fence of Work & Family I find it difficult to always be in balance. Usually work, life or play is taking up more than their fair […]

How I Turned a Seven-Hour Layover into Aloha

Anyone who travels for business knows that it is not glamorous. Anyone who says Oh but you get to eat in great restaurants has not traveled for business. Those of us […]

Blog Posts I’d Like to Write

I started a new job two months ago. At moments I have felt like Dell Griffith from the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I have traveled seven weeks of the […]

Are You Willing to Put in “Junk Miles”?

Have you ever stopped to plot where you are on the continuum of the Law of 10,000 Hours? Where are you in time, experience and performance? Are you at the beginning? Are you […]