Posted in General, tagged Direction, greatness, sense on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since I was a teenager, I’ve had this sense like I was meant for something big. Not a drive to excel, just a feeling that I was meant for something. It was a feeling that I was going to make a different. I wasn’t sure what it was. I’m still not sure.
I thought it [...]
Posted in Life Lessons, tagged goals, Life Lessons, reputation on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” -Warren Buffett
Twice, in the past two months I have been referred to by two co-workers as someone who is responsible with money. In both cases the people that came to me said [...]
Posted in Relationships, tagged kindness, Relationships, smile on October 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
I had to go to a wake of someone I cared for. She was an older woman, and had been fighting Cancer for a while. I knew she would eventually pass on, I wasn’t prepared when I heard the news. It kind of [...]
Posted in Growth, tagged Growth on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while my inbox will get backed up. If I go on a vacation, or just slack off for a week, when I come back, it’s a big old stack. I might try to avoid it for a while; it always appears like there is so much to do. Eventually though I [...]
Posted in Productivity, tagged goals on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post is number 30. Not that I’ve posted so far, but that I’ve written in the month of October. When I got back from a vacation to Washington state, I decided I really wanted to write the blog. It is something that I have tried before but never done well. This time I didn’t [...]
Posted in General, tagged Failure, Original on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Deviate from the norm. Do your own thing. Do what works for you. If you try something and it doesn’t work, try something else. Keep failing forward.
