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I have truly enjoyed a pastime in raising my kids by coaching them. My eleven-year-old boy has been through 15 seasons of soccer. Watching him from his very start to the competitive intensity of games today has been pure joy as a dad and coach. I can see
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Dealing with copycats can be frustrating in our hyper connected world. I have had more than my share of copycats in my work and they come in all forms. The funny thing is to witness how someone might copy a tool I use or try and match appearances, but this
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One of the nagging points of running a business is identifying when to automate. There is always a manual way of getting work done and if you are not careful you can adopt a habit that is hard to break. Without realizing it, you are working slower than your competition
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I am not so sure great ideas are what they used to be. With millions of people connected now there are numerous ideas that float around. They are easy to put out there. You can just browse Kickstarter to see what people are thinking about doing and what people are
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It can be hard for many people who feel the ground underneath them shifting. The industrial age is not coming back and the information age has been relentlessly changing how we live, work and connect. If you are not used to change, then life as you know it can be
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The South By Southwest (SXSW) gaming convention was a spectacle to behold as Alienware put on a show. They had 15 gamers playing in real-time on their platform with World of Tanks. The sportscasting and visual displays kept the audience engaged just as if we were at a sporting
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I&w=560&h=315] Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull team put on a show and broke a couple of world records! Their coordination of events to pull off a 24 mile high jump that lasted over 4 minutes was
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Today is a day to celebrate with family and friends. I am grateful for being an American. We have the freedom to pursue happiness. We can go after our dreams. I spent some time reading the Declaration Of Independence this morning. What courage our early founders had to defy the
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One of the hardest things for an entrepreneur to determine in their journey towards growing a business is whether to pivot or persevere. This is especially challenging for the entrepreneur who is characteristically hard working, risk-taking and determined. If things get hard, their instinct is to keep pressing on.
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If you have not watched the video of Susan Boyle From Britain's Got Talent then take a moment to indulge. There are multiple moments that capture how the judges, audience and we react to what we see with the eye. Then our hearts get pulled as we engage
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I have had my Mont Blanc in hand a lot lately. Most of my work is in front of a computer with keyboard. I love the productivity increases and could not run my business any other way without easy cloud computing and keyboard. Lately, I am finding joy in expressing
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My friend, Brad, helped me finish this race despite the late hills. It was a motivating time to build on something. It's hard to believe this kind of pace would not even break a sweat back in my college running days. As I get older, I am learning