If you love garage sales (like myself), but don’t have the time to go to one, you need to check out Mike Sansone right now.  He’s having the first Garage Sale 2.0. He’ll sell basically anything you’d want (including his dog…  maybe.) He’s UStreaming the sale, so you can check in at any point during [...]

When I was in college, a friend and I taught a ten week course about presentation skills to underclassmen.  One of the lessons was about the properties of influence… SPARCLS is acronym we used.  Right now I’m going through a training called “Building Credibility and Influence.”  Naturally, these same six principles popped up again… Social [...]

Social networks are powerful.  Whether you’re on Facebook or not… you’re still part of a number of networks:  co-workers, friends, volunteer groups, professional associations, and all the colleagues that you have met along the way.  That is a lot of people to keep up with… and I’ve finally discovered the best way to do so. [...]

Picture someone you know that is successful.  There are three things that person knows how to do.  In fact, there are three traits that all successful people share… They know how to manage money, manage time, and manage relationships. Here’s how that works:  When you become financially free, you are no longer trading your time [...]

Analytics.  Blogger.  iGoogle.  Gmail.  Picassa.  Docs.  Alerts.  Reader.  Desktop. See the trend in the naming of Google products?  Simplicity. They haven’t come up with brilliant names… they’ve taken simple words and put “Google” in front of them.  And it works because of the brand Google has built. Today Google will release “Google Chrome.” What’s Google [...]

You know those people that – even after a long time apart – are still your best friend the moment you catch up with them?   Last week I caught up with two friends who are just like that. We got on the subject of Facebook.  Ironically, neither of these friends use Facebook. They’re reasoning?  Because [...]

What’s the biggest asset companies have? Not equipment… or buildings… or land… Their biggest asset is human capital. Human capital – The set of skills which an employee acquires on the job, through training and experience, and which increase that employee’s value in the marketplace. It’s hard to build your human capital when employees are [...]

Beloit college released their “Mindset List” today. It’s a list of 60 things that have shaped the way the class of 2012 views the world.   Most notable?  25. There have always been gay rabbis. 1. Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team. 2. Since they were in diapers, karaoke machines [...]

“Don’t compare yourself to others” I read that somewhere… and I completely disagree. You HAVE to compare yourself to others… Especially when you’re young. That’s how you know where you rank.  Think of it like sports… if you’re the best at your school, how do you compare against others in your conference?  If you’re the [...]

I spent last January and February backpacking across Europe… For five of the eight weeks I was alone. And as you can guess… I had a lot of time to get to know me. Ironically, I’ve never really had that chance made time for that… And it sounds weird, but I didn’t really know myself [...]