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my life purpose exercise worksheet
In having dialogues with many people about the life purpose exercise, I decided to post my personal version. This took about 20 minutes. I started listing a bunch of stuff that meant something to me…stuff that I could feel good about being committed to. Then I started combining and re-arranging. And yes, it made me [...]
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life purpose
There have been a few people that posted on FB or other places about this exercise. I highly recommend doing it. My version sounds a little to wordy, but for me, every single word has tons of meaning.
From Nov 2010: My purpose is to share what makes life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness possible [...]
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happy independence day to my family and friends
Independence has been a significant theme for me this year in many ways. So, I wanted to share a wish for all of you on Independence day…July 4, 2010.
More than anything, I wish you “mindful independence.” I wish you choose to pursue life, liberty, and happiness with vigor and resilience and patience…that this pursuit is [...]
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chop wood, carry water
When life throws challenges at you…just keep going. Keep opening doors and walking through them. Keep your balance of positive in the face of difficulty and negative.
That is how businesses launch and ideas come to be introduced to the marketplace.
Betalkaboutable is a brand I came up with some time ago…and now the “business” (really just [...]
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a story i am proud to share
If you haven’t been exposed to it, this was an inspiring event in my life. I have been fortunate to share it with a few folks who appreciated it. Just search “zen surfing benjamin bloom” and it will show up. (Actually, it doesn’t any more, so here is a link http://www.benjaminbloom.net/zenandtheartofsurfingandworking.htm)
photo credit: joiseyshowaa
photo [...]
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behavioral systems
Further below is a really interesting and insightful thought about “neuro-linguistic programming” from this site about psychology and business.
While this applies in many contexts, I think the most profound is the overall human relationship context and how people interact in general. A great manager I met from Microsoft once put it this way, “people [...]
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very cool to come across this today – kinzan and scoble
what was cool is this post (not related to the pic below…but the pic is bad-ass too). see an excerpt of the post below between garland and robert scoble. as background, i worked with garland (and many other bright, talented people) at kinzan…I left and went to Siebel Systems before this dialogue happened…and [...]
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nice, simple, marketing…and fun too
haiku and ascii…hahaha! aha!
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Akin Arikan is THA MAN! (web analytics expert)
Unica’s Akin Arikan presented in one of the eMetrics Marketing Labs session with Michelle Rutan of National Instruments where they provided a jaw dropping showcase of the power of the NetInsights product.
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Happy New Year 2012