How to write resolutions.

Happy New Year, everyone! Bill Myers is the online video, product development, and marketing guru. Last year, he wrote a short guide to setting up resolutions for the New Year. As you know, I am a fan of New Year resolutions.  Only if they are done correctly, though....

Resolution

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...

The Problem With Problems

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...

Eliminate this word in 2015

“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...

Good reminder.

“Sadly my favorite activity — spending time with my kids — is now denied me. Alex and Stephen are 24 and 21, busy with their own lives, and too old to hang out with mom and dad; Stephen is away at school in Pittsburgh. When they were young and the...

The state is a straight-jacket.

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...