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Friday, January 25th, 2013My oldest son started working at a local grocery store chain last Spring. He’s actually working for the same store manager I worked with when I was worked in the grocery business in the mid 90s. Anyway, with his first job, came his first income tax filing. I have to say it was kind of [...]
The “SAVE Method” for Remembering a Person’s Name
Thursday, October 18th, 2012Have you ever found yourself in the following situation when you meet someone new: You: “Hello. My name is __________.” New Person: “My name is ___________.” You (to yourself): “GREAT! I’ve already forgotten his name!” Honestly, this happens to me a lot. I guess I’m just not paying attention. Today I was reading through John [...]
50 Ways I Can Improve Myself – PDF Version
Friday, August 24th, 2012I have been going back through some of my older posts. I found this one from back in 2007 (hard to believe that was five years ago). Anyway, I liked this post and decided to improve upon it by turning the list into a downloadable PDF. So, here it is (just click on the graphic [...]
Andrew Carnegie on The Advantages of Going the Extra Mile
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012Among the many books I’m working my way through is Think Your Way to Wealth (Tarcher Success Classics)* by Napoleon Hill. The book is essentially an interview between Napoleon Hill and Andrew Carnegie which ended up being the basis for many of Hill’s books—especially The Law of Success*. Some of the language and ideas are [...]
This Man’s Message to Graduates: You’re Not Special
Friday, June 8th, 2012Most excellent: A snippet from his address (bold mine): …if everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless. In our unspoken but not so subtle Darwinian competition with one another-which springs, I think, from our fear of our own insignificance, a subset of our dread of mortality – [...]
Ten Books I’m Thinking About Paying My Kids to Read
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012Below are ten books that I think my kids would benefit from reading before they venture off to college. In fact, I think they are worth reading enough that I would be willing to pay my kids $50 – $100 per book to read them (feel free to discuss below whether or not you think [...]
Three Healthy Tips from Brian Tracy
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Brian Tracy with some healthy common sense:
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