Stop Networking…. Start connecting The word "Networking" has a such a negative connotation.  When I hear "networking" I think of… Well, first I think of computers.  Lifeless, emotionless objects… (Not the best work to describe an  interaction between people.)  Here are a few others:  Sleasy Fake Impersonal Colin (I’ll explain tomorrow) Boring Transactional Greedy Annoying [...]

If you don’t have one, it’s time to get a mentor.  You age doesn’t matter.  If your a freshman in high school.  A junior in college.  Or if you 43 years old, married, and have kids.  Mentors rock!  Here’s a few reasons why: They’ve been there – They know what it’s like to be in [...]

Drew McLellan has yet another great idea… To help new bloggers get started, he’s building a toolbox of great blogs to start reading when you first enter the blogging world.  Here’s my two cents worth: Scott Ginsberg – Ever meet someone and think, "Wow – that guy has it all figured out…"  Was he wearing [...]

This past weekend I had the pleasure of bartending at a private dinner party.  It got me thinking…. Dinner parties are a great way to connect with old friends and an even better way to meet new ones.  This weekend, steaks were served outside by the pool and right next to that was the tiki [...]

The other day I stumbled across this Cost of Living Calculator.  A great tool for new graduates looking to move to a different city.  If you are earning $50,000 in Des Moines, here is what you will need to keep your standard of living in the following cities: New York (Manhattan) – $108,854 Honolulu – [...]

There are many things I wish I was better at:  design, writing, waking up on time.  But if there was one thing I wish that I could immensely improve, it would be the skill of observance. Not just observing things, but remembering them.  Writing those experiences down.  That is where great content comes from. How [...]

Two people whom I love to read, making opposite, but great points about the same quote. Keith Ferazzi:  The best definition of a goal I have ever read:  "A goal is dream with a deadline."  That marvelous definition derives home a very important point.  Before you start writing down  your goals, you’d better know what [...]

When meeting someone new, have a goal of finding out what their passion is.  It could be traveling.  Or knitting.  Or photography.  Or watching blindfolded circus acrobats on the high trapeze. But how do you go about finding someone’s passion? As the old saying goes, You have two ears and one mouth.  Talk and listen [...]

ADD is a growing problem, and it isn’t limited to attention spans. Generation Y changes their job every 1-2 years, on average.  Changing jobs that often means a few things: 1.      You’ll have to continually prove what you are worth 2.      You’ll always want to have a reference or two – your current [...]

There are two lives we live.  The continual, day-to-day world where we eat, sleep, work, and live. And then there is the other world:  the world where we want to live.  Whether we want to own our own business, run a marathon, write a book, or record an album.  It is a world that we [...]