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I just added a link to my white paper on Do it Well. Make it Fun. The link is on the home page. Plus, you can read it below. It’s long, but well worth it! Life is short. In a relative, big picture kind of way. So, we must make the most of the short […]
Continue ReadingThe following YouTube Video is probably one of the best examples I’ve seen of doing things well and making them fun. The amount of time it took to execute and record the video is the well done part. The rest is pure fun.
Continue ReadingThere is an interesting article in Fast Company Magazine focusing on a Stanford business professor who is teaching her students about the value of happiness in a corporate setting. She’s working with some large companies to help them figure out how to use happiness to increase employees productivity and to woo customers. Now doesn’t it […]
Continue ReadingAn article in USA Today newspaper today indicated that based on a study by MetLife, employee loyalty is at a three-year low. You can read the article here: Workers Eager It appears that morale has fallen and it can’t get up. So what can leaders, supervisors, and employees do about this? It’s a classic opportunity […]
Continue ReadingI’m always impressed when I see something creative. Today, I was working on my book in the Duck Cottage Coffee and Bookstore and my eye caught one of their new products. It’s a hat with an odd design on it. Upon further review, I discovered that it’s the molecular design for caffeine. Now that’s funny! […]
Continue ReadingI’m writing my third book and decided to retreat to a beach house in Duck, NC. The isolation has helped me to focus on why I’m here – to write. As inspiration, I re-read Stephen King’s book On Writing. It’s a tremendous book and it covers the essential ingredients in good writing without getting weighed […]
Continue ReadingI love to find something that really combines the qualities of excellence and fun. Recently, courtesy of my Mental Floss blog feed, I ran across this great article about Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche who have turned the food world upside down by exploring ways of substituting unhealthy or environmentally unfriendly foods with similar tastes […]
Continue ReadingThis bumper sticker was proudly displayed in the back window of a car parked in front of me yesterday. It was blocking the driver’s line of sight. He (or she) must really be proud to sacrifice personal safety just to tell the world about his (or her) Eagle Scout. I wonder if the eagle scout […]
Continue ReadingTo become good at anything, we must work through the pain. Malcolm Gladwell refers to this as the 10,000 hour rule in his book Outliers. Most successful people put in 10,000 hours of practice, work, or experience before they become successful. But if you’re like me, you have a tendency to give in to the […]
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