Sunday afternoon Twitter exchange: Better business is all about better managing of expectations… Hmmm, same as life. #funnyhowthatworks March 25, 2012 3:12 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite @walkermckay Walker McKay @colarecruitbn @walkermckay might be blogpost in there somewhere. Basically, keep expectations low, everything is then a surprise or no big. March 25, 2012 4:32 pm via HootSuiteReplyRetweetFavorite [...]
Sunday night I posted this photo to Instagram, and it’s an honest question that might need some explanation. It’s a screen capture from my phone of the Day One app, which is actually a wonderfully elegant app for just journaling, jotting down the day’s notes, making sure the user doesn’t forget whatever’s important. It’s one [...]
Editors’ NOTE: This post has been sitting in Rick’s tumblr drafts for a long long (okay, we don’t really know how long) time. But it’s good. And it’s decently pointed. So we thought it would fit here. Thanks, and apologies for any lack of cross-posting inconvenience. – the Editors It’s unavoidable. Sometime, somewhere with someone [...]
Have you thought about what success means for you right now? Satisfaction is keeping us from our best work I think it was Steven Pressfield who said that if you do something long enough, if you get serious about any craft (including writing), there comes a time when it begins to “kick your ass.” When [...]
I’ve come to a theory that most of us don’t do things THE BEST WAY. Instead, we typically do things THE WAY IT FIRST MADE SENSE. Maybe it was a good teacher, or well-written process instructions. Maybe it’s something you figured out on your own. Whatever way you learn, that’s most likely the path you’ll [...]
Part of growing up in the South is a healthy respect for politics and religion. Two topics that might be more taboo in other areas of the country, they fit together here like fish and grits. But I’ve learned over the years that there’s more to life than my way, then my belief, then my [...]
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? – Joshua/WOPR, WarGames Here in South Carolina, constituents are being blitzed by ad campaigns from GOP candidates for President of the United States. A handful of commercials on TV tout the plans of their candidate. Mostly, the [...]
As December winds down and 2011 comes to an end, everyone will be doing best of lists (no worries, I’ve got a worst of list coming, I think) or resolutions for the new year. I’ve got a different take, maybe. Instead of looking at the new year as a beginning, I think I need to [...]
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