Everybody is worrying these days about conserving energy and one of the supposed problems is the chargers for your devices continuing to take unneeded power once the battery is charged. An enterprising RISD student solves the problem.
You are the one you are waiting for. Looking back on my life, I find that much of the time I was waiting for something to happen. It might be a person. It...
More on Patriotism [/caption] Appreciation of our freedoms Patriotism, to me, is the appreciation of the freedoms and opportunities that our country provides. More than that, it is...
Purchasing a Mobile Phone Thinking of buying a cell phone? Then you will undoubtedly be concerned about what type of phone to buy. When it comes to understanding your...
Save Time, Money and Space in Over 80 Ways If you're looking for handy gadgets, tools and various items that can save you time, money or space (or all three!) this list of more...
I have complained about my difficulty in organizing my time, getting the most out of the time I have and making sure that I take care of long term goals as well as those immediate calls for my attention that seem important at the time but do nothing about getting my to new achievements. It turns out that, as usual, it is my own limited imagination that keeps me from seeing a better way. Steve Scott has managed to get his life organized and profitable using the web but what got me excited today is his no nonsense way of planning his activities – by the week. I am going to start using his system moving forward with some new goals and ideas for my web and business activities and I am optimistic that this powerful yet simple system will help me pick up momentum. If you are having problems organizing your time, maybe Steve’s system is what you are looking for as well.
On the Road to Better Communication [/caption] I gave a talk this week. It was stand-alone without slides or props. It was just me and a handful of notes. I don’t...
Employee Responsibility I need your help. I have been an employee for most of my life, some of that as a management employee meaning that I supervised...
Easy Ideas To Make Income Online I would love to talk about how exactly you can make large amounts income from home. We should get candid about what exactly we choose...
People underestimate the power of the unconscious mind. Because of their ignorance this very powerful part of our brain works against us rather than for us. I was reminded of this while musing about Donny Deutch’s quote on failure. He talks about the problem of people setting a goal for themselves NOT to fail.
So What do you think of you? [/caption] First Impressions Count Its not a frivolous question. We all make snap judgments about people in our lives and it is particularly important the...
Love, the REST of the story [/caption] I read a thoughtful post on love recently. The author considered love an emotion and talked about the power of an emotion and and...
Simple ways to make money online Making money online, even in today's economy isn't difficult. But like anything else, it requires hard work. Here are just a few simple ways you...
25 quotes on ambition For no real reason, I was looking up quotes on ambition and quickly found a number worthy of keeping on hand. I thought some were...
Earlier I posted about my wife’s first car and her initiation on the freeways of Los Angeles when they were at their prime. She caught on fast and soon the trusty Vega no longer fit her image. We had just bought our first house, three blocks from the beach in swinging Manhattan Beach and she was ready for a new car- still a Chevrolet but a far cry from the Vega. She was on the hunt for a Corvette and before long she found it. It cost her the princely sum of $6,000 in 1974 and it was her pride and joy. She loved that car and it did have a raffish charm. She drove it to her design jobs around LA and to her teaching gig at Cal Arts.
Fun with Nuvi My wife got a personal navigation device for Christmas. She is not very open to new technology so I didn’t have much confidence that she...
“Creativity is about freedom. In order for people to be free to create, they need to feel free to fail. You can’t fear failure. If you want to create a world that values creation above everything else, first and foremost you have to take fear out of the equation. You have to create a culture that can accept failure, live with failure, not be fearful of failure. So much of what we do in life as businesspeople is failure-averse. It’s amazing how many businesses and management teams and people I have met make their important decisions based on fear of failure, tripping up, or being ostracized. The driving force for them is not success; it is failure avoidance. No. You need to embrace failure.”
Hip and successful advertising executive Donny Deutsch says this about failure in his autobiographical book, Often Wrong, Never in Doubt. No need to embelish. The quote speaks powerfully enough.
Pianissimo You can't really see the facade at LACMA as I have noted earlier and the entrance is reminiscent of the Carson IKEA but the galleries...
On the Road to Better Communication [/caption] I gave a talk this week. It was stand-alone without slides or props. It was just me and a handful of notes. I don’t...
Stories of Retirement Success and Regret I try to read retirement stories told by others, successes, regrets, and failures alike. Those that have retired before us have much to teach us...
I have been struggling lately with managing my time better. Rather than focusing my efforts on the most critical activities, I tend to get diverted into the less critical and open-ended tasks that have unlimited potential to eat up time. I still have goals and priorities but I lack the hard deadlines that kept me focused at my job.
Change you can believe in Image by David Reece via Flickr I gave a speech last week. Last week I gave a short presentation to a business group. This group's...
Procrastination gets a bad rap! [/caption] I think maybe procrastination gets a bad rap. I don't mean to advocate procrastination as a way of life. I just think that sometimes,...
Attain Victory with the Right Triathlon Gear pt 1 Throughout our existence, one of the deciding factors in who survives and who doesn't has been technology. It is the innovation of technology that has...
How to Set New Financial Goals No matter how old you are, or how much money you have in the bank, it is never too late to start setting new financial...
A recent post questioned how important a domain name is in the success of a blog. I was concerned that perhaps naming my blog after myself was a handicap. Many successful blogs do not use the name of their creator. Others do. If I want my blog to grow up like the big boys, should I change the name?
Messing Up [/caption] Take any leadership class or read any leadership book and you will hear that mistakes are how you grow and progress. That's a hard...
What can I learn from comment counts? Image by svenwerk via Flickr I know it when I see it. Until recently, the only criteria I had to decide the quality of a...
Be a Blogger: What's In a Name? The following is part of Frugal Dad’s weekly series, “So You Want to Be a Blogger?” which chronicles the development and optimization of a blog’s...
Publish Blog Posts More Successfully Blogging is about more than just putting your thoughts down in words, because blogging is capable of sharing news, spreading messages, facilitating conversations and so...
Not to be confused with iPod, this odd-looking silicone gadget can make some of your more difficult cooking chores easier. Fill it with whatever you might want to immerse in hot water and cook away. Lift it out with the convenient handle when you are done.
How self doubt can challenge your progress. [/caption] Last night it hit me. You can call it the wet, cold mackerel of truth. You can call it having the curtain lifted. You...
Fasting I have been experimenting with fasting over the past two weeks. I became intrigued with discussions on different blogs but I was especially interested in...
Ideas for Green Home Improvement There are a wide variety of different green home improvement options that you can pursue that are going to improve your home. Some of them...
Smart phone, Planner and Pocket PDA Update [/caption] Earlier I posted on my decision to buy a smart phone to replace my three year old razr. As often happens this change cascaded...
United States of Wimps Having grown up in the practically prehistoric 40's and 50's, (For example, my family did not have a TV until I was in the third...
1. notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
2. worthy of notice or attentio
That is what Dictionary.com says about remarkable. To me it means something that stands out; something with a unique quality that differentiates it from other things; peerless; without compare. In other words, pretty special.
Up with Failure Image by Behrooz Nobakht via Flickr Is Failure Bad? In popular culture, failure is called a bad thing. Failure is the end of the game....
The Unconsious Mind and Goals Image via Wikipedia Never underestimate the power of the unconscious mind People underestimate the power of the unconscious mind. Because of their ignorance this very...
Related Posts 
You are the one you are waiting for. Looking back on my life, I find that much of the time I was waiting for something to happen. It might be a person. It... 
More on Patriotism [/caption] Appreciation of our freedoms Patriotism, to me, is the appreciation of the freedoms and opportunities that our country provides. More than that, it is... 
Other Websites You Might Enjoy 
Purchasing a Mobile Phone Thinking of buying a cell phone? Then you will undoubtedly be concerned about what type of phone to buy. When it comes to understanding your... 
Save Time, Money and Space in Over 80 Ways If you're looking for handy gadgets, tools and various items that can save you time, money or space (or all three!) this list of more... 
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=3efbc2f2-bba9-4271-8976-71cc6a30b974)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=235b8182-10b6-429b-90be-868072392011)
kə
Ralph on 
TheInfoPreneur on 