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I’m fired up like Marshall from Paw Patrol today — and I’ve been fired up for a few days now after reading a 3-word Facebook post.
Here’s the story — my friend, Charlene posted a simple message that said “Do it scared.”
[Read more…]You ever heard of Flavor Flav?
If so, I’d bet you probably know him from a painfully bad reality show — Flavor of Love (so painful I watched every season).
But what you might not know is that Mr. Flav is also an inductee into the Rock N Roll hall of fame as part of the iconic group Public Enemy.
I’ll get to why you should care about this in a minute but first I want to share a story about a phone call I had today.
[Read more…]When people find out, I have a blog one of the first questions I get is when do you have time for that?
I used to say usually when I’m supposed to be sleeping, but after I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, I finally got the message that sleep deprivation can cause major issues.
Nowadays, the answer is different and almost seems like it should be obvious but it’s not.
So here it is. [Read more…]
You might get a kick out of this.
I just came across a post from 10pm est on April 15 (aka tax due date) of someone saying “for some reason H&R block is experiencing heavy call volume”, and then proceeding to ask a question about how to answer one of the tax prompts on work location. [Read more…]
Let’s talk about focus.
It’s easy to get distracted by what’s happening around you. Maybe people are getting preferential treatment.
Aside from you only being able to control so much, you worrying about what somebody else is doing can have a real negative impact on your performance.
When we were in taekwondo this (the same session I wrote about a couple of days ago), something else interesting happened. [Read more…]