I’m a big fan of blog carnivals as a way of finding great content and promoting your own blog. Yesterday, one of my posts — What a Poop-Covered Toddler Can Teach You About Business — appeared in the Carnival of Success at SuccessJolt. SuccessJolt’s tagline is: “Your daily kick in the pants!” You gotta love […]
How To Turn Off Your Brain
The occasional hallucation or two might not be a bad thing. But when I get a fever it often results in my brain’s inability to control my streaming thoughts. It’s like my brain’s filters are inneffective, and while trying to sleep a raging river of thoughts overwhelm me. Usually they’re tied to whatever I was […]
When Do You Do Your Best Thinking?
I do my best thinking while I’m lying in bed, just before I fall asleep. I finally get the necessary peace and quiet needed to ratchet through the swirling chaos in my skull. I often have to get up quickly to write down my ideas before I finally get some rest. (I used to do […]
Don’t Be a Turkey – Take Some Time Off
Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. Oh Canada…our home and native land… Oops, sorry about that. Jumping into the anthem happens every so often, when I’m writing about Canada or at a hockey game (go Habs!) But enough about that. Yesterday my family got together and had a fairly traditional Thanksgiving dinner. It’s always a feast, and […]
5 Reasons to Say YES
Paul McEnany at Hee-Haw Marketing rages against the devil in his quest for a higher purpose. Actually, Paul’s stomping on devil’s advocates everywhere: Devil’s advocates are everywhere.You know why? Because it’s easy to say no. It doesn’t take much thought, and it sure doesn’t take much work. The devil’s advocate is the person that kills […]
Toss a Little Fun and Passion into the Work Environment
No matter what your job, whether you’re an entrepreneur, running a small or large business, or working for someone else, please don’t forget to inject a bit of FUN and PASSION into what you do. For many, fun and passion are natural and a part of their day-to-day lives; but that’s not the case for […]
Practical Ways to Defeat Self Doubt
We all deal with self doubt from time to time, as entrepreneurs, employees, husbands, wives, etc. Last week I wrote a post titled, You’re Not Rich Yet? Take a Step Out and Regroup which talked around the idea of self doubt. Mostly I was talking about how to deal with not meeting your expectations as […]
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