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Life lesson learned from Wii sword play

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Lately, I have been really into one of the games on the Wii Sports Resort, Sword Play. Through the game, I have reinforced a life lesson that I mentioned in another blog post about being deliberate to be effective. Well, it came up again.
First, a little about the game. You wield a lightsaber-looking [...]

Google Docs Vs. Evernote Premium for Archiving

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Google recently announced that you will be able to use their Google Docs service to store files of any type. They are adamant that this is not the fabled GDrive. Based on my preliminary experience, I would have to agree. While Google’s new file storage service is very affordable, [...]

Being Deliberate to Be Effective

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Hellow Mind Racers! There may be a time when you are in a rush to get something done. It is tempting to make haste; but, doing so results in poor performance and unnecessary mistakes. If you have done the one thing often enough, you may move quickly; but every move is [...]

Just showing up

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Woody Allen is quoted as saying that 80 percent of success is just showing up. In my experience, this has proven true in real life. This also proves true on the web. Too often, business owners neglect showing up on the web at all. Many who do make an effort to [...]

Imagined Obstacles Can Hold You Back

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One problem with having a vivid imagination and being able to grasp the totalities of ideas easily is the immediate realization of all the details involved, real or imagined. Sometimes, you may be 100% correct that a problem will crop up and give you all kinds of headaches on a project.
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Suffering From Project Overload

Lately, I have been a bit scatter-brained, which resulted in a one-night mass consumption of beer on Friday night. The main problem has been a bit of a project overload. There are several seemingly important things tugging at my attention from day to day, and it gets more and more difficult to figure out [...]

Link Your Highrise Contacts to Your Google Phone

T-Mobile G1

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You can now link your T-Mobile G1 with your Highrise account. I’ve heard the G1 called a “toy” by early adopters who simply wanted to play with it rather than actually use it for business. Well, thanks to a third-party app, it’s not just a toy.
The leader of [...]

Freelancecamp San Antonio

This weekend I had the chance to travel to San Antonio with Sergio Chapa to the 2nd Freelancecamp in the nation, and first in Texas. As a recent freelancer, it was a great experience for learning what other freelancers are doing and for a little bit of moral support. When you make the choice [...]

How Much Does Social Media Cost?

One of the most frequent questions people have when talking about social media in the business is, how much is this going to cost the company? I can understand that there are several concerns for any business, like productivity, control of the company’s image, what are recurring costs, and any number of concerns. Adweek has [...]

How Do I Integrate Social Media In My Business?

As the popularity of social media continues to grow, many businesses are beginning to ask how this medium fits into their business model. Chris Brogan asks questions in his post titled Aligning Social Media Within Companies. He has a ton of comments on that one. Some people describe social media as a tool. Others call [...]