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“We have been following his progress with considerable despondency, not to say contempt.” From Douglas Adam’s “Restaurant at the End of the Universe.” Is your passion equal to the task? Does your reach exceed your grasp? Does your grasp exceed your nerve? Perhaps your reach exceeds your imaginat...
07/10/2013
This one Fatal Mistake is the main reason why most small businesses fail within the first five years. I know you’re going to think it’s overhead, poor marketing, insufficient capitalization, or a hundred other easy reasons that have been trotted out over the years by “the experts,” but it’s real...
07/10/2013
George Bernard Shaw wrote in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893, “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, m...
07/10/2013
Believing something to be true doesn’t make it true, no matter how badly you want to believe it, or how brainwashed you may be. The problem is that many of the things the average person believes are sabotaging their success and undermining their progress. By aligning your beliefs with reality, y...
07/10/2013
The strata council notified everyone that our building was going to be cleaned. I had to move everything off the veranda, since we’re on the ground floor. Big work. Long ladders went up and the sound of power washing and the shouts of the labourers assailed my delicate ears for a few days, then ...
07/10/2013
I’m always shocked and surprised at the lack of common hospitality showed to the visitors to one’s home we have found in Canada as opposed to South Africa. In South Africa, when you went to visit someone, you savoured the certain knowledge that you would be welcomed with delightful refreshments ...
07/10/2013
I am a heat seeking missile. The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft. It has a high-explosive warhead and an active infrared guidance system. The Sidewinder was developed by the US Navy for fleet air defense and was adapted by the U.S. A...
07/09/2013
It actually cost you a lot of time and money to accumulate that towering heap of business cards from networking meetings, seminars, conferences, trade shows… how will you create a return on that investment? Time is tight, you’re busy… Want to turn them into hard cash? Monetize them? Rather than ...
07/09/2013
Don Marquis writes about a cockroach wise beyond his years, Archy, and an alley cat dancing through her ninth life: the immortal Archy and Mehitabel. In his story about Mehitabel and her kittens, Mehitabel grumbles to Archy, “The life of a female artist is continually hampered. What in hell have...
07/09/2013
Jews are really smart people. I love them. The proportion of Jews with IQ’s of 140 or more is estimated to be about six times the proportion of any other ethnic group. In 1954, 28 children in the New York City public school system were found to have IQ’s of 170 or higher – 24 of these were Jewis...
07/09/2013
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