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Oct, 2011Inspirational family meeting videos
We try to hold a family meeting on the weekend as often as we can. I’ve covered topics such as listening skills, attitudes of winners and losers, peacemaking skills, and conversational skills for my 8 and 10-year-old daughters. Their favorite part to-date has been role-playing bad listening skills with us – they’re experts! Their second [...]
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Mar, 2011Need a vacation!
I read almost every book that Verne Harnish recommends so when I saw this in his recent newsletter, I ordered do more faster a couple minutes later. Verne wrote: “Brad Feld Saved His Marriage — last month I read Brad’s outstanding book Do More Faster. Aimed at tech start-ups, there are plenty of lessons for [...]
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Jan, 2011Barefoot in Boulder
A solution for everything (or almost). After struggling with foot pain for 7 years, I read Born to Run (also Barefoot Running) and got fired up about trying out barefoot. It took 3 or 4 months to work up tough enough pads to do real hikes but I enjoyed most of it tremendously. Every once [...]
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Jan, 2011How to Become King
I love to teach. As obsessed as I’ve been with learning business for the past 14 years, it’s only natural that I like teaching my kids what I’ve learned. My girls are 8 and 10 years old so I love to find materials that really engage them. Much of the time, the things we talk [...]
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Sep, 2010Lesson from Boulder’s Four Mile Fire
Get the real facts. On the second day of the Four Mile Canyon fire, we knew that a good number of homes in my parents neighborhood had already burned. On the third day, I found a satellite image showing their home had not been burned. I was overcome with relief after days of tension. But [...]
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Sep, 2010#boulderfire – Colorado’s worst wildfire in real-time
Yesterday, a wildfire started outside Boulder a couple miles due west from my home. In the morning we saw wisps of smoke coming over the ridge behind our house and expected to see flames. There was no information on the TV or radio so we went to twitter search and discovered the fire was not [...]
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Jan, 2010A true friend is hard to find
I want to get into video but I’m not ready to appear in person yet. Fortunately, my cats are. So move over James Cameron, here’s my Avatar. I have to apologize in advance for the lack of violence and mating. Still, I expect millions of views. This does have something to do with recruiting too. [...]
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Nov, 2009Rock-bottom
I want to be useful, truly useful — but it took a crisis or two for me to figure that out. Two years ago I hit rock bottom. My health had been in decline for a number of years when I hit a crisis. I needed to be cared for and was virtually useless to [...]
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Jun, 2009I make mistakes
I’m focused, driven, and persistent. I get so focused, I sometimes run out of the house wearing the same color from shoes to cap… I notice but am not easily distracted! Sometimes, I get a haircut a month or more after I need one. The typical entrepreneur maybe? A friend graciously used the word "passionate". [...]
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Mar, 2009Job anxiety? Listen up!
We are constantly blasted by negative messages today and if you run a business or if you’ve been laid off or had your salary cut, you’re experiencing changes that confirm the talk. Anxiety is a natural consequence of all this. Is anxiety or fear helpful? If these emotions are on display in your next job [...]
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Jun, 2008Transparency
Had an interesting conversation with Mike O’Brien and Nick Jimenez at climber.com a few days ago and when I asked them how I can improve my blog, they said ‘transparency’. They wanted to know why I blog — so here it is: Why do I blog? My primary motivation is that our DiversityJobs.com customers are [...]
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Feb, 2008Boulder Magic
This is a view from our balcony of the morning sun on the front range. We moved to Boulder Colorado last year from Florida after seeing my health deteriorate steadily for about five years. The move itself was so difficult that I got much sicker and practically stayed in bed for three months. Since I [...]
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Jun, 2007The Greatest Wealth Is Health
The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil This is a difficult topic for me to write about. I’ve been dogged by health problems since my second daughter was born four and a half years ago. But for a number of reasons I’ve said little about my struggles to the LatPro team. Leading is not complaining. First [...]
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Mar, 2007Inspirational movies for business leaders
I especially enjoy sports and coaching movies because they often provide a great metaphor for business life whether you are in the job board business or any other. First the motivational movies and then pick-me-up list for those days when your business gives you the blues! Motivational Coach Carter Samuel L. Jackson plays the titular, [...]
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Dec, 2006Happy New Year!
Thanks for reading my blog, it has been fun to write and satisfying to know I have a handful of readers already! It’s going to be an exciting year for Internet businesses and ours especially as we’re about to take off our training wheels. After only nine years, imagine. I wish you and your family [...]
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Aug, 2006The Secret
When I watched ‘The Secret’ DVD I couldn’t recommend it enough. I picked it up because it was mentioned by Verne Harnish of www.gazelles.com. Then in a blog about The Secret, I noticed it features Jack Canfield who’s another of my favorite gurus. That sealed the deal for me and I ordered it online. But, [...]
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May, 2006Books I like
in addition to favorite movies, here are books that I love, like or have found useful: buddhism the miracle of mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh training the mind: and cultivating loving-kindness by Chogyam Trungpa true meditation by Adyashanti the wisdom of no escape: and the path of loving kindness by Pema Chodron what should I [...]
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