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Mar 4, 20121 min read
Metric Failures – The rest of the story
I say sure and run over to bakery. Sunday night 6 pm, they are closed. I come back and we decide I should drive to our closest food...
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rick13714
Feb 25, 20123 min read
Talking Heads Change vs. Core Values
Running or swimming provides me a forum for thinking through nagging problems in my head. This morning the change vs core values issue...
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Feb 21, 20122 min read
What Was I Thinking?
Having moved past the half way point of life, I find this statement refreshing. Now that I understand how the universe gives us what we...
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Feb 19, 20122 min read
A Balanced Life and Steve Jobs
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Having lived in California is the 70’s and 80’s I found his covering of...
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Feb 14, 20122 min read
A Sweetheart of a Entreprenuer Story
In this era of people complaining of unemployment benefits running out after two plus years, it is a joy to see that entrepreneurism is...
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Feb 11, 20122 min read
Success Through Surrender
My best thoughts always come 15 minutes into a run. The rude reality of aging has been overcome and the endorphins start kicking in...
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Feb 9, 20122 min read
Passion Never Sleeps
Sitting in a coalition meeting of Project Rebound, a steering group coordinating many social service agencies for those affected by the...
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Feb 6, 20122 min read
A profitable life at any level
Started teaching a course on entrepreneurship tonight and the subject turned to cash flow. We were taking about the 7 C’s of lending...
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Feb 2, 20121 min read
Stretching vs. Stressing
Stretching actually energizes me and while I do look forward to a weekend break, I am mentally excited. The problems I deal with are all...
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Jan 31, 20121 min read
Watching the Land Move, Sailing Toward My Goals
When I sailed in San Francisco Bay we often found ourselves sailing into or against the currents. Looking at the race buoy, we would...
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Jan 30, 20121 min read
Fighting the Dream Stealer Drug
Waiting for my friend’s son to come out of practice, I had a minor relapse of radio and discovered the current political campaign had...
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rick13714
Jan 27, 20121 min read
The 80/20 rule or why the rich get richer
Part of my job is to bring quality training to my local business market. For our tourist based market, the Disney Institute’s one day...
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rick13714
Jan 26, 20121 min read
What I Learned Today at the end of an 18 hour day!
Part of my goal setting/time management workshop included the productivity tip from either Dale Carnegie or a chapter in Og Mandino’s...
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rick13714
Jan 17, 20124 min read
Good Friends I Hope to Meet
Throughout my many moves, I have been blessed to meet a great many people and make some great friends. People who cared about me, laughed...
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Jan 8, 20122 min read
Spiraling Into Control
My I-Spiral Ever found yourself overwhelmed with so many things to do that even the act of writing them down seems monumental? I did last...
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Dec 7, 20112 min read
December Resolutions
One month is a long time to be in a funk. I have decided to think a little outside the box. I have shifted my New Year’s...
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Sep 7, 20113 min read
Business Coaching, Who needs it!
Why is something that is so obvious so hard to grasp sometimes? When I mentioned casually to group of friends watching a golf tournament...
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Aug 24, 20113 min read
Edwards Deming and the Family Business
I recently was turned on to a 1984 video by W. Edwards Deming, the guru of Japanese quality and innovation. In the Five Deadly Diseases...
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