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I can not hear what I am believing! I always said the phase “I cannot believe what I am hearing” and one day I accidentally flipped the words around and found some truth in the reversed statement. Sometimes we want to believe in something so bad that we cannot hear the truth.

In business you can control everything but human nature.

Smart people know when to ask for help.

Do I really need a bathroom attendant to squirt soap in my hand for a dollar.

Yes, those cute little bundles of joy don’t always tell the truth. As a parent of two, I learned that pretty quickly. People who think kids are so innocent are people who don’t have kids. But the worst thing of all is a parent who thinks their child doesn’t lie. I truly believe that kids…
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Currently, the Federal Trade Commission estimates that as many as 9 million Americans have their identities stolen each year.  With this many occurrences, it’s likely that you already know someone who has had their identity stolen. I have put together a list of common best practices that will help you protect yourself and your customers…
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With all the jokes and clichés about mushrooms, it’s hard to imagine how those little bulbs of fungi can help the technology industry.  There are 5 classes of mushrooms, edible, toxic, medicinal, psychoactive, and industrial.  Long before synthetic dyes, mushrooms, which come in a variety of colors, would be run through a process to extract…
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Traveling to new places and meeting the locals is more than a past time, its a passion. I’m not a nervous traveler and dangerous places are not off limits. I don’t consider putting a place on my list, unless I have experienced it. So hopping off a cruise ship to walk a port of call…
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It amazes me that in most companies you have to put in a purchase request to spend any money at all; yet people in the company can call a meeting with total disregard to the expense of the meeting. If the average hourly wage of someone going into an office meeting is $25 (low end…
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In the last 15 years we’ve seen a dramatic change in the advertising industry. Where paper and billboards once reigned supreme, the Internet dashed in and all but decimated the traditional newspaper. Those who couldn’t navigate the curve failed, a crippling recession only serving to hurry the process. Meanwhile, every day businesses struggled to comprehend…
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