Getting 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 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 readingLast week during my stay in Hawaii, I was interviewed by Brianne Randle of KHON2, an affiliate of Fox News about homelessness in Hawaii and how it affects tourism. Apparently, there have been streams
Continue readingAll the way through our schooling we are measuring how smart we are. How well we do on each test, in each subject and most of all compared to the rest of the class and sometimes
Continue readingThere once was a time where it seemed like there was a finite amount of knowledge out there. The wise men all knew the same things, had the same education and maybe had a little
Continue readingGrowing up my father used to tell me that every day was “the first day of the rest of my life”. He would mostly use the expression when I was starting something fresh like the
Continue readingI just had a conversation with a friend of mine who has five twitter accounts, one is personal and then four of them are each a stream for different topics. I don’t know what
Continue readingAs many of you may know, a few weeks ago, Google launched Chrome, their new internet browser. Since this site is all about “getting lucky”, I decided to wait a little while
Continue readingPicture Credit Problogger posted a while back about a conversation he had with Seth Godin about Twitter. Seth mentioned that he doesn’t use twitter and barely even uses Facebook.
Continue readingI’ve mentioned before that old or traditional media is pretty much corporations developing a message that suits them and yelling it out at the world as often as possible. With
Continue readingMitch Joel from Six Pixels – Twist Image has a weekly podcast which is at the top of my regular listening list as well as a blog which I read regularly. Last week he posted a
Continue readingI used to find pennies on the floor all over the place and pick them. Lately, I’ve been finding nickels. Did the nickel replace the penny? It’s gotten to the point that stores aren’t
Continue readingAbout 8 years ago I spent a summer traveling with a camp around the west coast of the United States. Throughout our travels, we would stop off at rest areas to fill up with gas
Continue readingDid you know that… One weekday issue of the New York Times has more information in it than an educated man in the 17th century would amass in a lifetime? Every minute, ten hours of video
Continue readingI love my IPod. I have Itunes set up to download Podcasts every day and I sync them while I am at the office. I do most of my listening and watching while commuting while I am nowhere near
Continue readingI was listening to a podcast this past week on Duct Tape Marketing where Charlene Li, a senior analyst with Forrester, stated what should be obvious but for some reason most companies
Continue readingPicture is from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ms_abitibi/1462557669/ Sociologists estimate that the average person knows 300 people by name. Thinking about this, I probably know a whole lot more
Continue readingThere are two different thoughts on building up social and professional networks.One is to invite and accept anybody and everybody and the other is only to accept friends and people you actually speak
Continue readingThis is my fourth post in my series of 10 on how to increase your luck and create Luckortunity. I just heard something that blew my mind away. I heard that technology was doubling every 18 months and
Continue readingThis is the third post in my series of 10 on how to increase your luck and create Luckortunity. For those of you that don’t know what StumbleUpon is, it is a social bookmarking network where people
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