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April 23rd, 2008 — Inspiration
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Don’t you think the photo is just so great. What a story it tells!. There are a couple of things we can learn from it. Apart from how long you should dunk the chicken you can also pick up these tips:
March 10th, 2008 — Inspiration
March 7th, 2008 — Inspiration, Must Read
I wandered over to John Dodds’s blog Make Marketing History for my usual fix of good writing and read this. Then I clicked on a link within John’s post and found myself face to face with genius.
Jeez has Max Kaizen seen this? Max…..
I simply love it when I find talent that really makes me appreciate how much I suck! Go to http://xkcd.com and see what real true talent is and see it in all its great voluminous, plentiful, every pixel-filled vast abundance.
I hate xkcd! Hate it, hate it hate it! Damn it is so good. Brilliant. If I could weep at this instant, I would but there is no command in my Dell for humility!
February 26th, 2008 — Inspiration
December 22nd, 2007 — Inspiration
It’s about Facebook. I am at home thinking:
Hopefully the conversation around FB vs Blogging is not dead. Is it?
December 2nd, 2007 — Inspiration
Do you lack the willpower to lose weight? Do you want to lose weight?
I do. And like many and most likely you too, I need a source of inspiration. Well here is that inspiration.
November 23rd, 2007 — Inspiration
It is going to be a Meatball Sundae Friday Night. Luckily for me last evening, I arrived home in time for the FedEx man to deliver Seth’s latest book.
October 17th, 2007 — Inspiration
Dave Winer thinks Facebook sucks. He isn’t alone. I do too. But for totally different reasons.
Facebook makes my teeth itch.
Dave Winer: Why Facebook Sucks
[Photo Fact: This photo is of the Class of Y2K's stained glass window at University Hall of Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. I think it absolutely fantastic. Laptop keyboard spells out Class of Y2K. Neat!]
October 9th, 2007 — Inspiration
ENGAGE 2.0 is here.
You can download ENGAGE 2.0 by clicking the download icon below.
People and the things they do in this life have an amazing capacity to suprise you out of the blue when you least expect it.
For those of my staff who were previously thought of by their ex-bosses as underachievers, I decided to do what I could do to bring out the best in them. They deserved this chance to prove they were not at all underachievers.
And they deserved the opportunity to prove that they could respond to the right stimulus about some important things that do matter in this life and then be able to go ahead to better and more demanding challenges in work and their lives.
After taking stock of the team and their various perceived shortcomings, I put together a small Powerpoint presentation which I call ENGAGE. Most of my staff called ENGAGE “shock treatment”. I call ENGAGE a reality check or wake up and smell the coffee, because it states the obvious in a way that leaves you no room to misunderstand. And ENGAGE says those things that you are often too PC inclined to say in a face to face consultation.
Of the staff who took part, all have increased their job perfomance by a minimum 35% on actual to target. None of the perceived underachievers is one any more. So dramatic is the improvement that last week I sent in application to extend a temp’s contract by 6 months during which time I want to convert her to permanent. Wow! You should see the confidence in her now.
Here are 20+ ways to fully engage some important things in life. Click the icon below to download ENGAGE 2.0.
Unzip the contents and enjoy the slideshow and begin Engaging today!
September 19th, 2007 — Inspiration
Screwcap monsters are trying to usurp corks. Absolutley ludicrous! Just look at the photo above. The humble wine bottle cork. It is an icon, a work of art. It is every wine connoisseur’s fantasy mural depicting many nights or afternoons of ribald gastronomic and sensual pleasures. What finer memorial to the nectar of the God’s can one ask for?
Polaroids and videos may suffice for many. But for me the cork still lives of the occassion. It smells of the time and of the wine. The cork. You can pick it up, even throw it across the carpet for the cat to chase. You can fiddle with it and keep your fingers active and le cork still retains the aroma of the wine. Magnificant lingering free prize.
September 14th, 2007 — Inspiration
Everyday a rock band or solo artist is somewhere over USA or Europe in a plane cruising to their next gig at 400+mph. The song below was prompted by the fear of flying.
It was written by Lonesome Dave Peverett and Rod Price of Foghat and appears on their second album Rock n Roll released March 1973. Both these peope are sadly no longer with us but the band Foghat continues touring the USA and Roger Earl (drums) continues as the sole original member and to be present on stage 100% of every gig since the band was founded back in 1971.
To me the lyrics say what being in a band on the road is all about. It’s a snapshot of being in a van or bus with steamed up windows on a not so dry and blue skied day en route to the next of many. many gigs. Foghat were a hard working band. How many miles by road and air have Foghat travelled since 1972?
Back then Dave forecasted the way it would be for him. He did roll till he was old and he did rock until he dropped. While ill with cancer, Dave bravely continued gigging with his band and favourite people. Sadly on 7th February 2000, he died.
Rod Price on lead and slide guitar who had left the band to pursue a solo career sadly also died March 2005 but left a legacy of great music. Rod was a bottleneck (slide) guitarist par excellance and his writing partnership with Dave created some of the best boogie rock to date.
You can visit the new Foghat site (post 2000) here
Road Fever - Foghat
“I’m back on the road and I ain’t gonna stop,
Goin’ to roll ’til I’m old, gonna rock ’til I drop.
Out of the smog, headin’ into the sun,
I’m goin’ to New Orleans, Bourbon Street here I come!Road fever, wheels turnin’ in the rain,
Road fever, fire burnin’ in my brain,
Give her the gun, drive like a hurricane.Got the heat up high, and the radio’s on,
Diggin’ rock and roll music while we’re ridin’ along.
Maybe Atlanta, may be Birmingham,
I know where I’m going, God knows where I am!Speeding along like a bullet from a gun,
It’s a three day ride, we’re gonna make it in one.
I’m back on the road and I ain’t gonna stop,
Goin’ to roll ’til I’m old, gonna rock ’til I drop.”Rod Price / Dave Peverett - Knee Trembler Music - ASCAP
Listen to a sample of the song here
September 13th, 2007 — Inspiration
Back in June 2006 I posted this small piece taken from one of Seth Godin’s posts, little realising that a year later how relevent it would become to me.
“And the delicious irony is that those that conform often don’t get more traffic. They often get less. Because following all the checklists can make you boring.
Safe is risky.”
We have to breakout and stop being stereotypes. I don’t mean we should all go overboard but we should introduce some of the unusual into our lives. We also need to expose our readers to that which is not run-of the-mill. Not an easy task at all. No it is not easy to flick a switch and change a lifetime of habit and routine and of accepting that we should always keep our heads down below the parapet.
We cannot simply stop submitting what I call ‘doilly’ stuff. Billy Connolly calls it ‘beige’. I don’t want to be beige anymore! You?
September 11th, 2007 — Inspiration
A report on BBC states
“Many of us take the internet for granted, but what about locations that are too remote or economically impoverished to enjoy the hi-tech benefits of the developed world?
The coastal town of Knysna in South Africa was one such place. But now it is the largest wi-fi enabled area on the African continent.”
This is great news and hats off to UniNet who pioneered this excellent community service.
August 23rd, 2007 — Inspiration
The free prize. Seth Godin wrote a book about it. He called it “Free Prize Inside”. Buy it. I did and now I am perplexed. Anxious and fidgety too. What free prize can iScatterlings give you?
The more I think about it, the more confused I become. I mean I know I am meant to provide you with a free prize and I very much want to. It’s the ‘what’ that is getting to me.
August 19th, 2007 — Inspiration
I am so pleased to find a speaker who hits all the right buttons about the way we educate our children. Education is based on outdated concepts about what we think every child should know.
And that is just plain dumb and so wrong of us elders to assume each child requires to be taught what was setout 80 years ago or more in school curriculums that were run under completely different and myopic regimes. The education authorities did not know about a lot of stuff we now take for granted. That type of world was not the enlightened one we are in now, or should be in.
In this speech at TED 2006, Sir Ken Robinson outlined his perception of what the education system could do and challenges the education systems to stop smothering creative thinking. Not everyone of us wanted to study Maths did we? Why were we forced to? Does an artist or writer of novels and an actor need Maths? Nope.
Watch the video. It’s a good talk with funny bits in it too.
