by Dwane | Dec 31, 2014 | Education, Motivation, The Future, Vocabulary
People either love New Year’s resolutions, or they make fun of them. I don’t know which person you are, but I fall into the first category. I love New Year’s resolutions. Resolutions are fresh beginnings. And, I love fresh beginnings. I love the...
by Dwane | Dec 31, 2014 | Education, Motivation, The Future
By Seth Godin We have limits. There are challenges, limited resources, people or organizations working against you. Your knee hurts, the boss is a jerk, the systems are down. We have opportunities. There are opportunities, new sources of leverage and ideas just...
by Dwane | Dec 30, 2014 | Education, Motivation, Vocabulary
I fell of the wagon this year. In October, my wife and I had an argument. We argue from time to time. It’s no fun. This one, however, was, for me, demotivating. The fallout spilled over. For a while, I stopped blogging. I stopped posting the “word of...
by Dwane | Dec 29, 2014 | Education, Motivation, The Future
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis This is one of my favorite quotes by C.S. Lewis. I started late. I graduated from high school late. I was nearly 20. I had failed English so many times in middle...
by Dwane | Dec 24, 2014 | Education, Motivation
How One Simple Christmas Gift Helped Harper Lee Write One of the Most Profitable Books of All Time By Brian Warner Merry Christmas. Hopefully you didn’t ask for the standard iPad, PlayStation, Beats by Dre, smartphone etc. and instead you decided to think a...
by Dwane | Dec 6, 2014 | Education, Motivation, The Future
The fall of the Roman empire fascinates me. I have read more about it than a normal person should. I only wish evernote had existed back when I first started studying the subject. Just started reading another book about history’s most famous collapse. Charles...
