This turned out to be a scam. See my more recent posting. Greetings Leaders! Like many other days, I got up this morning in Roseville, California. I rolled out of my comfortable bed, took a hot shower, ate an english muffin with peanut butter, jumped into my car and drove to a favorite Starbucks. I […]
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I was listening to Fresh Air on National Public Radio this morning while driving between clients and they were discussing the Spanish Court’s investigation of the Bush Administration’s role in the torture of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay. What caught my attention was the discussion of SERE School (Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion) having been
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Greetings! This is the first blog in a series about Getting Control of Your Life. Click here for instructions on how to journal. Do you ever feel like a marionette and think that there is some unseen force or persona pulling your strings… that your life is out of control… or at least beyond your
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Greetings… I am starting a blog series on gaining control of your life. To get the most out of the series, I recommend that you start a journal. Go out and get a nice journal from Borders or Barnes and Nobles. You might want to also get a special pen to write with. I use
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I recently blogged about a group called the Sacramento Professionals Network. The SPN is an organization serving unemployed professionals. While there, I was disturbed by something I observed. There were about 30 people in the room, no one was under 30 years of age, and the vast majority were into their 50s and 60s. What
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Hello Leaders! Earlier this week, I had the honor of speaking to a group of professionals at the Sacramento Professionals Network (SPN). I say honor, because they were consummate professionals who were wounded corporate veterans, casualties of the economy. There were about 30 professionals there. Project Managers, Accountants, Human Resources Professionals, Social Workers, Technicians. All
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I just finished calculating my taxes and completed the ordeal by hitting enter on the keyboard. I cringed as I imagined the electronic dollars floating across cyberspace into Uncle Sam’s coffers. I know we all have to pay taxes… well, most of us anyway. I suppose there are the extreme outliers, the destitute and the
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While sipping a quad-shot Americano at Starbucks today, I noticed a young woman reading a book on Time Management. She was thumbing slowly through the book, stopping every now and then to read a passage. While watching her, I wondered how successful she was going to be in her endeavor. Managing Time. What a thought.
You Can’t Manage Time… So Why Do You Try? Read More »
Technology has bought about changes in the way we do business. While teaching a recent Project Management class I told the students they had to stay abreast of technology, or face getting techno-replaced (mostly for the benefit of the older students). In a few years, if you can’t text with the best of em, beware
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Greetings all… I love WordPress. Well, perhaps not as much as my family and friends, but I do like it a lot. Why? WordPress tracks the search terms people use when they find my blog. This allows me to stay relevant, and more importantly, to give all of you answers/feedback to questions you are asking.
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