Reputation through Association

There is a concept that if you are part of a successful or popular organization, that its good deeds will magically be bestowed upon you like royalty.  Just because you show up to a meeting, display the organization logo on your website doesn’t mean you deserve the benefits of their good deeds. We should not […]

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Images they are Amusing

Stop, look around and take in the images people are presenting to the world.  You have the young reality want-a-bee with pants hanging down and looking all cool, dark shades on, while in the building.   The fashion diva in her 6-inch pumps strutting around like she is the queen and all must move out of […]

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The Past is not the Future

Granddad was a barrel maker at the Chicago Stock Yards; Dad worked at American Can then moved from the factory line to office cubical. Your cubical is more of a mobile command center with multiple software Apps connecting you to clients around the world. The companies that your ancestors have worked at no long exists […]

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Find Your Role and Take Action

Down on the court, the action is intensive, you are happy you arrived early to get a good seat. Focusing all energy on the event you are willing to; ignore your buzzing cell phone, forget the family, empty your mind — nothing is going to distract you from this event.  You look around and you […]

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Not in Hollywood

Drugs, sex scandals, racial smears, indecent exposure and assault charges are all linked to Hollywood stars and yet after all their misgivings they clean up their act and all is forgiven.  Their careers take a little hit, but go right back to their star status symbol.  This is not true for people outside Hollywood in […]

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Annoying Me to Take Action

Little things in life we will put off until they annoy the _______ out of us, and then we correct the problem. The other day I was working in the yard and rock worked its way into my shoe.  I procrastinated and opted to do the famous shoe tap trick.  I would tap the tip […]

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They’re to Blame

It is easy to find fault in everything and harder to find perfection.  Let us blame something or somebody for failure, but don’t praise the person who worked a little harder to make sure the project was completed.  No blame falls on those who delegate responsibility, but on the manager who has to do the […]

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Social Media Blur

It seems we hunger for more interaction with every social network we join. We grow the network by family, friends, co-workers, clients and people who we’ve just met. Each network is built for a purpose and as their popularity grows, so too are the applications that interconnect these media’s.  Once we mix the communities it […]

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Trash Talking

Mental trash talk is you own worst enemy. The fast track to undermining your competition is to get into your opponents head. Professional athletes do this all the time to each other it is called trash talk.  They give their opponent a reason to second-guess their decisions and create inductiveness.  Once the opponent allows this, […]

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The Competitive Answer

Have you found somebody or something that awakens your competitiveness? Somebody who stimulates your creative juices? Whose actions cause ideas to pop into your head and challenges you subconsciously to improve?  You look at their work and see improvements to your own designs. You read their blogs and you try to emulate their charisma into […]

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