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What This Memorial Day Means To Me

Memorial day has always been a special and personal day for me. But this year, I had an experience which has brought its importance to an even higher level. Saturday I was part of a service project with the youth from our church at our local Veterans Cemetery. Our job was to put flags on […]

Creating Real Change in Your Life and Business

Fill in the blank: Nothing great was ever accomplished without ___________. What answer came to your mind? Enthusiasm? (that’s what the original quote says) Effort? Perseverance? Courage? A plan? Faith? Obstacles? All of those are great, but I have a very different answer: Nothing great was ever accomplished without a decision. Making a decision is […]

Don’t Let This Kill Your Blog!

I got a call the other day that really has me concerned. It was from a blogger friend of mine who is struggling with an issue that’s common to almost every blogger! Basically, it works like this: as you look around at other bloggers, especially your role models, you can’t help but feel that they’re […]

Why People Take A Break From Facebook

Do you know anyone who has eliminated their Facebook profile entirely or who has taken a break from Facebook? You probably do: 61% of Facebook users have taken a Facebook Vacation for several weeks or more, and 20% of online adults once used Facebook but don’t any longer. Here’s an infographic that shows why: Does […]

Super Bowl 2013: When the Lights Go Out in Your Business

Super Bowl 2013 was full of lots of unexpected twists and turns. The 49ers were supposed to win the Super Bowl. In the 4 times they’ve goneÂ to theÂ Super Bowl, they have won. By theÂ beginning of the second half the Ravens were up 28-6. It looked like it was going to be a blow out.Â The […]

Your Online Data Is At Risk!

It started out as an act of love. A friend of mine, a father on a small island in Finland who I was visiting with last week, wanted to give his daughter a gift she would cherish for her birthday. He decided to give her his old iPhone 3g. It seemed the perfect gift – […]

How To Clear Your Google Search History

Are you aware that Google tracks all of your searches and clicks on all of their properties (Google, Google+, YouTube, Maps, Picasa, etc.?) It’s really rather fascinating to look at your own behavior, and I strongly recommend that you check it out at https://www.google.com/history But to some, there’s a darker side to all of this, […]

Personal Disaster and Succession Planning

I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about what would happen to my family and business if I were to become incapacitated or even to die. And it’s a sobering thought. Those thoughts invite two kinds of action: Avoidance of the issue entirely, or Doing something about it, so that my family is not left […]

Applying The Law Of The Harvest

The Law of the Harvest, “what ye sow (plant), so shall ye reap (harvest)” is one of the truest models I’ve found to describe success in this world. It applies to almost everything, from get rich quick schemes, to relationships, to grades, to diets, and to investing. But most people look only at the surface […]

The Lesson That Changed My Life

My father taught me many things as I grew up. But there was one lesson that has stuck like glue. That one lesson has probably made more difference in the lifestyle that we are able to enjoy than any other. I was 13, a paperboy, hauling myself out of bed at ridiculous hours to throw […]

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