5 Ways to be a Personal Bridge Builder

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” – Isaac Newton You never realize the importance of a bridge until it’s no longer there. Last fall during a routine bridge inspection, inspectors discovered a crack in one of our area bridges. After much dialogue and way too many press conferences, the bridge was deemed [...]

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Build Your System to Capture Ideas

“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.” – Nolan Bushnell If you’re like me, you’re never short on ideas. As a matter of fact, I often times have more ideas than I can [...]

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Do You Know What Your Readers Want?

Developing content and building products without knowing if your customers are interested is one way to embrace frustration head-on. It also means there’s a lot of wasted time and energy. There’s nothing wrong with going with your gut or occasionally jumping up on your soapbox to establish your insights and opinions. However, it’s always more [...]

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10 Solutions to Maintaining an Intentional Daily Workflow

“Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.“ –Bruce Lee I’m beginning to see the results of being intentional in every aspect of my workflow. Every action supports a larger goal instead of a reaction to what someone else is doing. If you haven’t noticed, everyone wants a piece [...]

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Be Who You Were Meant to Be

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman The hardest challenge in life and business is trying to be something that you’re not. If you’re trying to live up to the [...]

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Does Your Content Provide Value?

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett The biggest challenge in creating content is offering something of value to the content consumer. Whether we like it or not, it doesn’t matter how nice I am, readers return to this blog because of the value that is offered. I also [...]

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