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Choose Your Time
I wrote this in one of my notebooks back in 2008 and recently re-discovered it while doing some housekeeping. Apparently one or more of my children had taken it to draw in, but after reading what I wrote I thought I’d share. Ironically, words are the most powerful weapons or tools that we have, yet…
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Custom Maps
How I went from being a map blogger to a map maker by just realizing that I love to make custom maps for myself and others. I always thought of myself as an urban planner anytime I encountered something while driving that didn’t make sense. I used to wish I could change city streets the…
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How to Succeed and Grow through a Slow Economy
Are your company leaders keeping an eye on the traffic patterns in the economy? Are they doing what most companies do during a down economy? Does your company have a culture of innovation? It doesn’t matter if your company has 10,000 employees or you are self-employed, the economy affects us all. How we react to…
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Big Rocks
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, when Stephen Covey is going over Habit 3, “Put First Things First,” he tells a story about “big rocks,” which I wanted to share: In the middle of a seminar on time management, recalls Covey in his book First Things First, the lecturer said, “Okay, it’s time…
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Business On the Side
The days of working as a business analyst by day and a business consultant by night are starting to wear on me. For those of you who don’t know, I run Watershawl Technology Consulting and do Internet Marketing for Cost Publishing “on the side” while maintaining a day job as a business analyst. I’m Microsoft…
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Goals as a Function of Success
As we head into the new year I have been thinking a lot about goals lately. I was reminded of an old function I created once for the achievement of a goal. If you are wanting to make money online, you are wanting to start a business (whether you think of it as a business…
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The Way
In the midst of a storm its hard to see how you’ll ever get out of it. There are times when it seems like all is lost and you may want to give up. Sometimes all is lost and you don’t get out and there is no one left to tell your story. How vain…
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Why the World Needs Jesus
Who is Jesus? What does it mean to be saved? Are we still in need of a savior? Can Jesus hear our prayers? Do you have faith? Do you believe? Who is God? Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Why do bad things happen to people who love God? What is…
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Top 10 Best Ways to Build a Positive Attitude
1. Choose positive thinking friends. Lift each other up! 2. See problems as challenges. Successful people overcome! 3. Say “I can” more than “I can’t”. You can do it! 4. Expect good things to happen. Set yourself up for success! 5. Find the good in any situation. Look on the bright side of life! 6.…