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Dumpster Dive Your Life to Connect
Once upon a not-too-long-ago time, I was an impostor in a focus group. Wildly impressive people gathered in Los Angeles for what seemed like the purpose of giving others (okay, me) an inferiority complex. Really they were there, like me, for a focus group to test their media meddle.
One serious, ex-military general was preparing to present a multi-billion dollar project to the Pentagon the next month. A brilliant, German scientist was testing her TED talk about her discovery of a whole new way of looking at cancer. A best-selling author was prepping for a sit-down with Oprah, and another clever entrepreneur was practicing for a Today Show segment. And then there was
Start With What You’re Not
Today, while out walking, I was non-intentionally challenged by a darling seven and a half-year old boy to drink from the trough of my own advice to start with what you’re not.
While walking with his mom, the little urchin stopped me and asked a common and simple question:
“Are you cat person or a dog person?”
Read MoreBeing Wrong About the Right Side of History
On the eve of what I hope will eventually be a distant and proud memory of Oregon joining company with many other states on the right side of history, I have been thinking a lot about the what it takes to change one’s mind—what it takes to change a nation’s collective mind.
I must now admit that, although I embraced marriage equality early on, it wasn’t always the case for me. I remember the moment my mind was changed.
Read MoreThe Benefits of a Leaping Life
Thankfully, I have done a lot of stupid things in my life so leaping away from a 20-year and highly successful real estate career to get out on thin ice, test my hypotheses, and re-discover my inner “creator” is not the dumbest thing I have ever done. Some days I wonder. Most days I toast myself with a delicious adult beverage and thank my good fortune that I was brave enough and able to take that leap.
Let’s face it, no matter how much we
Read MoreA Dangerous Weapon Against Love and Hate
In honor of the Valentine’s Day of love, let’s clear up some misunderstanding about love’s disrespected counterpart, hate.
Hate has been given a bad rap lately and that has greatly diminished its distinction as intensely different from judgment, evaluation, review, criticism, dislike and even meanness.
Don’t be a hater.
Haters gonna hate.
Meme Millennial
Since when is a hater someone who doesn’t think you or your products are worth buying? Since when is a hater someone who doesn’t like the clothes you wear or something you created? Since when is a hater someone who disagrees with you?
Read MoreHow Did We Get So Right?
I like to think of polarizing issues and try to pinpoint the exact moment when I knew which side of the issue was right. On big issues like abortion, gay marriage and Justin Bieber, I doubt that I will ever change my mind because I’m absolutely certain that I’m right. Still, it’s hard for me to pinpoint the exact moment that I came to my right conclusion.
I’m willing to admit that I could be wrong. Okay, no I’m not. Who do I even think that I’m fooling? I know several things about this process because science tells me so. The more entrenched I am in my opinion, the more I will look for things that prove I’m right. Now, I don’t have to look far and wide to find evidence proving I’m right, but that’s because
Read MoreFrom Nether Regions Come…Sortafacts
Sortafacts are everywhere. Shhh…don’t tell anybody because whispering makes things 87% more believable.
Sortafacts are shared by company presidents, members of governments, magazines, blogs, newspapers, and news broadcasts both fair and balanced and slippery and wobbly. They are the truth-ish. This is proven to be true 93% of the time.
Often they come from our nether regions. Basically. Trust me. Literally (I saw them there once). They sometimes get sent down the bloggit hole where
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