My Sister's Keeper

My daughter told me that this was her favorite book. So I read the book, My Sister’s Keeper (2004) and watched the movie by the same name (2009), which stars Cameron Díaz, Alec Baldwin, and Joan Cusack. I’m not normally into fiction reading or chick flicks, but it’s for my daughter. Plus, I majored in……

I'm going to write about my job

I like writing. I don’t like my job; although, I’m still proud of it and want to model a good work ethic. It’s a struggle. If I write about my job, then maybe I’ll find something to like about it. And maybe I’ll find something to like about it long enough to make it to……

I'm just going to write something

Anything. I started this blog a year ago, then, like countless other bloggers, quit soon after. I found this app named Habits. It has room a feature to remind me daily at a specified time of a particular habit I’d like to adopt. A couple months ago, I installed it into my phone. Then, because……

One-Page Accomplish Anything Plan

I call it, the OPAAP. Short for the One-Page Accomplish Anything Plan. I shamelessly borrowed the idea from a book with a similar title, by Allan Dib, The 1-Page Marketing Plan (2016). Great book, by the way. Easy-read. Insightful. And as he says, although nothing new in content, a breakthrough in implementation. Soon as I……

What does right look like?

Right looks like mission accomplishment. This question aggravates me to no end… no end. Okay, maybe that’s a bit extreme, but when I hear it at work, it means, “What do the regulations say?” Let me repeat the answer: Right looks like mission accomplishment. What else should it look like? If it causes more harm……

The platform or the product?

How to empower others – build the platform, the system, the infrastructure for others to succeed… Try being the catalyst, vs. the champion. What Gutenberg is to the printing press, Henry Ford to the assembly line, Jeff Bezos is to new entrepreneurs. Samuel Brannan made his millions during the Gold Rush through… selling the shovels!……

Do you expect those weights to lift themselves?

I got that subject line from Jocko Willink, U.S. Navy Seal, retired. I’d like to share a book, What Color Is Your Parachute?, by Richard N. Bolles. As my girlfriend just said to me, even if they could lift themselves, that wouldn’t do much for your physical fitness. Although I admit, that’d be cool to……

Immune to pain?

Recommendation, for that commute today, 57 min 39 sec. David Goggins – U.S. Navy Seal, U.S. Army Ranger School graduate, and U.S. Air Force TACP (spec. ops.). Grew up in an abusive household. One of only a few Black kids in a small Indiana town, about 20 min from a KKK headquarters. Bullied relentlessly throughout……

Are you tired or do you just not want it?

I’ve spent the last year getting up at 0400 to read before work, even on weekends. Every book in these two pics (approx. 50), I’ve read or re-read in the past 13 months. What are they about? Economics, finance, accounting, psychology, marketing, entrepreneurship, leadership. You can make time. If you click the picture, it’ll take……