You may not know it but you are taking the wrong route to work. How do I know? Because most people are doing the exact same thing. The wrong route is the one that you took yesterday, and the day
Continue readingUnlucky Failures Unlucky people look at failure as an end, a dead end. If you fail, that part of the journey is over and you might as well try something else because you just found one more thing that
Continue readingThere is way too much information out there. Facebook generates 4 new petabytes of data per day. That is 1 million gigabytes per day! You think you go over your data with 8 gigs or whatever your cell
Continue readingI’m an idea guy. I have new ideas every day. I see the world and wonder why doesn’t this happen or why doesn’t this exist. I also look at some of the new businesses out there and
Continue readingHow would you like to accomplish 12 goals this year? This year, instead of taking on too many new year’s resolutions, follow the “New Year’s Resolution Goal System” and accomplish
Continue readingI am a little late to the game on wearable tech but I was first in line for the brand new Fitbit Charge 2. The new Fitbit fitness tracker that measures your steps, heart rate, sleep and tons of other important
Continue readingIt’s been way too long since I’ve really touched this blog and it’s about time that I got back up and running. I started this blog for many reasons and most of them were accomplished
Continue readingIf you are like me, you have a Gmail account and never delete anything until you start running out of space and then delete the biggest files that you don’t need. This seems like a very bad system
Continue readingThere is a point, or should be a point in everyone’s lives when you realize that the mighty and all knowing Wizards of Oz (read “your parents”) don’t know everything. As a kid,
Continue readingWhen I was growing up, I used to love the song “Oh La La” because of the lyrics “I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger”. At every stage of growing up, I used
Continue readingI had a friend in high school who was proud of himself because every time someone told him that he should quit smoking, he told then that he wasn’t a quitter. We all grow up learning that quitting
Continue readingI just wrote an article on Temphunt’s Blog where I threw out a thought about where formal education is going. I mentioned that in the 1950’s, parents (and others) gave kids the advice to “go to
Continue readingWhat’s your first reaction when you stub your toe? Do you yell? Do you scream? Do you blame someone? Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University wrote a whole
Continue readingDo you every have a great idea that you’d love to implement? Do you ever get inspired to do something? Anything? Clean your desk, write a blog post, organize your files? And then, instead of just
Continue readingNegotiations can seem really scary because most people going into a negotiation feel that they are the underdog. The other person has the product and they can hold back for as long as they like. The
Continue readingYou look at your watch and with great excitement you notice that it is 5:oo PM and time to leave the office to head home to relax for the night. You’ve got a whole bunch of new shows and movies
Continue readingGetting lucky is often about getting out of your comfort zone and opening yourself up to new and different opportunities. You can get lucky by listening to different people’s points of view and
Continue readingThey say that the world can be broken up into two types of people, “talkers” and “doers”. In the online world, there are the talkers and the people who are too afraid to talk.
Continue readingWhen you sit down and turn on your computer, do you know exactly what you are about to do or are you just turning on your computer because it is something to do? I constantly find myself sitting down
Continue readingDoing something because you “have nothing better to do” always seems to have a negative connotation. You are bored and someone asks you if you want to go to the mall and your response is “okay,
Continue readingHave you ever accidentally sent an email before you wanted it to go out? Possibly you were in the middle of writing a sentence, pressed enter and voila, the email was sent. Sending unfinished emails or
Continue readingWe all love shiny objects. They are the newest thing in town that everybody is talking about. The new toys, games, videos, business ideas, social platforms and more. Who can forget (or maybe remember)
Continue readingEverybody has heard the saying that “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” or something similar. The traditional way of understanding the saying is that when you are holding a prize in your
Continue readingWhen I was about 7 years old, my class learned about the Titanic and how it ended up at the bottom of the ocean. It was such a massive ship and the captain felt that a tiny little iceberg couldn’t
Continue readingA little while ago Robert Tuchman reached out to me to see if I would write a review of his new book “Young Guns: The Fearless Entrepreneur’s Guide to Chasing Your Dreams and Breaking Out on Your
Continue readingThe average person never sees his credit score or finds out about his credit’s health until he is about to make a big purchase such as a car or house or needs to take out a loan. At that point, they
Continue readingI happened to be in a friend’s office yesterday when they were reading their email. One of the emails had MS Word document attached and they opened it. Looking at her, I noticed a slightly frustrated
Continue readingTim Ferriss VS. Gary Vaynerchuk You may be a little confused. Yesterday I wrote an article about Gary Vaynerchuk and how his constant hard work is paying off as an incredible business strategy. He works
Continue readingThe Disposable Age We live in the disposable age. We eat take out, use disposable dishes, and look for a quick and easy fix for everything. The current bestselling books talk about doing less and enjoying
Continue readingIn general, people are very “happy go lucky”. They have their beliefs and values and everything in their life pretty much falls into place based on the systems they were brought up with, or have set
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