Posted in Challenge, Family, Friends, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Writing on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be [...]
Posted in Leadership, Life, Listening, Perspective, Rants, Writing on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently I’ve had a number of opportunities to listen to people’s stories, to people’s daily happenings, to people’s frustrations, to peoples’s pieces of their lives. Yesterday I was particularly interested in a friend’s perspectives on some political things. I genuinely wanted to understand and to see if his perspectives would add some different colors to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Rants, Start, VIPcomments, WFFF, Writing on April 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Intro
Well, it’s a Thursday. Once again, I’m at work early. I like the calm and quiet of the mornings. It allows me to think clearly, feel fully and breath with ease. I’ve been this way for a while, going back to working at the health club during college through the mid-90’s. I had mostly early [...]
Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Geek, Humor, Life, Listening, NotHappening, Perspective, Questions, Rants, Writing on March 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I just added this as my Facebook status. “Toby is quagmire laden, feeling morose, exhausted, refreshed, enlightened, verbose, confused, capable, smart, hungry, thirsty, and finally some enchanted melancholy.”
Posted in Autodidactism, Blogging, Challenge, Family, Friends, Geek, Humor, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, Perspective, Pics, Praise, Start, VIPcomments, Writing on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
March 20 is today’s date. This year it’s the 80th day of the year (leap year). There are 286 days remaining. It’s the first day of Spring! It’s also plenty of other things. Three of those things, I think are really cool.
Today is World Storytelling Day!
Today is the birthday of Frederick W. Taylor - an [...]
Posted in Leadership, Life, Listening, Perspective, Writing on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Sometimes we have to be really loud to make it know that we mean business.
Sometimes we have to listen to make it known that we mean business.
Sometimes we have to mute ourselves to make it know that we mean business.
Sometimes we have to encourage others.
Sometimes we have to praise others.
Sometimes we have to deflect praise.
Sometimes [...]
Posted in Administrative, Blogging, Perspective, Rants, Writing on February 1, 2008 | No Comments »
This is posted in the bottom right of this blog’s current layout.
ECG Management Consultants is my current employer. I am their Knowledge Manager. While that may sound like I know what I’m talking about, I am specifically stating here that everything I post on this blog represents me, my opinions and my personal perspectives. I [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Geek, Ideas, Leadership, Life, Listening, NotHappening, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have been following a lot of information for several years now. I do that with blogs, with RSS feeds, with alerts, with email newsletters, with a few hard copy magazine subscriptions, with some journals, and also a lot with listening in whatever way possible.
I’ve come to some conclusions.
I can change the world.
Everyone has the [...]
Posted in Perspective, Writing on December 6, 2007 | No Comments »
I know, because Wired Magazine is fatter again. Actually, it’s fatter than ever.
Interesting to note… even when it was skiny, the articles and writing were just as good!
Posted in Ideas, Leadership, Life, Listening, Perspective, TechProfound, VIPcomments, Writing on October 11, 2007 | No Comments »
This is a repost. It’s worth mentioning again…
“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you’re keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop [...]
Posted in Ideas, Motivate, Perspective, Writing on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
As I’m working through new areas and gathering lots of info, I often take a bunch of notes. Then I organize those and try to find areas where there may be gaps. Then I try to see if I already have resources or info to fill in those gaps. Then I move on to the [...]
Posted in Family, Friends, Life, Listening, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on August 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been on vacation this past week. I left work on Monday afternoon and will not be connected there until Monday morning. That is the vacation part.
The fun part was that on Wednesday afternoon my sister got married. I got to see lots of family and friends back in Minnesota. (If you didn’t know, that’s where [...]
Posted in Administrative, Autodidactism, Blogging, Ideas, Inspire, JustDoIt, Leadership, Life, Listening, Motivate, NotHappening, Perspective, VIPcomments, Writing on August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
I recently took a break from blogging (both writing and reading). To put this into perspective, I follow about 160 blogs. About half of those are very much work related. I was probably spending about an hour per day reading and maybe another hour per day writing my own blog posts or responding to others.
(If anyone is paranoid [...]
Posted in Inspire, Life, Perspective, Writing on July 15, 2007 | No Comments »
This morning, I saw and appreciated something that I want to emulate.
As I went for a walk around Green Lake, just north of Seattle, there was an elderly woman who was getting into her car. She was putting a walker into her trunk first, then slowing lumbering her way towards the driver door. She had shiny [...]
Posted in 4x4wknd, Administrative, Blogging, Geek, Ideas, Listening, Perspective, TechProfound, VIPcomments, Writing on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Tweblog
Getsch.com
4×4 Weekend
TechProfound
HoopsTech
While that subject is accurate, it’s not very true. Those are the blogs that I currently have the ability to publish to and own. They are not all that up to date.
Tweblog is current, but still could use a better About Me page.
Getsch.com is supposed to be family stuff, but it’s not really getting any [...]
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