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About: The GoalsGuy

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Gary Ryan Blair
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Blair is a visionary and gifted conceptual thinker. As one of the top strategic thinkers in the world he is dedicated to helping his clients win by creating focused, goal-directed lives. His handbooks, training programs and coaching services are used by more than 80,000 organizations worldwide. If you have a question, or would like to learn about our Coaching for Results program, or even schedule a workshop with Gary, click here!


A Story of Pride, Hope and Glory

January 18th, 2012

Pride, Hope and GloryYou can’t reach your potential or live life to the fullest if you spend your days making excuses, having or accepting low standards, and doing just enough   …continues

Words of Wisdom

December 30th, 2011

Words of WisdomYour entire life is an accumulation of tiny details and small decisions . While we measure our lives in years, we live them in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.  …continues

Nitty-Gritty Details

December 28th, 2011

Nitty Gritty DetailsWhen every nitty-gritty detail is lovingly attended to, and each step in the process is given complete and careful attention, the result inevitably will be of the highest quality.   …continues

The Right Objectives

December 18th, 2011

The Right ObjectivesJust like any building needs a solid architectural design, every highly successful life must be purposely designed and built to achieve a specific set of appropriate objectives.   …continues

The Impossible Dream

December 18th, 2011

The Impossible DreamMan of La Mancha rocked Broadway in 1966 with its thundering theme song, THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.

It opens in soft reflection, “To dream the impossible dream… To fight the unbeatable foe…” but then   …continues

Play Like a Champion Today

December 18th, 2011

Play Like a ChampionYour performance is representative of your practice, and your philosophy. It shows and it counts.

Every champion knows that everything they think, say and do counts.   …continues

The Big Question

December 18th, 2011

The Big QuestionSeriously consider this question as the answer will tell you a lot about your future. This question alone has allowed me to succeed and coach people to make monumental performance gains.   …continues

Change and Personal Mastery

December 10th, 2011

Change and Personal MasteryNo matter how good or bad your results have been in the past – you can always do better.

Yet, the single biggest key to improving both your performance and your results seems to go ignored by almost everybody.   …continues

Efficiency & Effectiveness

December 6th, 2011

EfficiencySuccess is the end result of doing the Right Things… the Right Way… at the Right Time… for the Right Reasons.

What more could be asked of you if you are consistently doing your 4 R’s?  …continues

The Broken Window Theory

December 6th, 2011

Broken Window TheorySweat the small stuff (graffiti, aggressive panhandling, petty crime) and you’ll stop problems before they grow bigger.   …continues

Flawless Perfection

December 6th, 2011

Flawless PerfectionWe each have our own idea of “as good as it gets”, and while perfection will never be obtained, our individual and collective goal is and should always be to perform as flawlessly as possible!   …continues

Life by Design

December 6th, 2011

Life By DesignJust like any building needs a solid architectural design, every highly successful life must be purposely designed and built to achieve a specific set of appropriate objectives.   …continues

Are You Expecting too Much?

December 5th, 2011

ExpectationsWhat does it mean to exceed expectations?

Expressing gratitude and appreciation raises our consciousness, recharges our energy, enhances our self-worth, and strengthens our spirit.   …continues

How to Show Appreciation (A-Z)

December 5th, 2011

Show AppreciationExpressing gratitude and appreciation raises our consciousness, recharges our energy, enhances our self-worth, and strengthens our spirit.   …continues

Give a Man a Fish

December 1st, 2011

Give a Man a FishIf all we do is help people and do things for them all the time, then they rely on us, which is not only unhealthy for their development of skills, it also makes them psychologically weak, confidence deprived, and quite literally puts their very future at risk.   …continues

Trust Me, I’m a Doctor

September 3rd, 2011

TrustYour ability to demonstrate this quality impacts every relationship, every communication, every work project, every business venture, every effort in which you’re engaged.  …continues

Look Deep Into the Mind’s Eye

September 3rd, 2011

Look DeepBecause you can only do what you have creatively imagined, the first step toward accomplishing a goal is to project it onto the visual sketchpad of your mind. You may have heard this referenced as “seeing it in your mind’s eye”  …continues

How to Build Self-Discipline

August 21st, 2011

Self DisciplineEvery goal you want to achieve requires the enforcement of self-discipline, self-control and self-awareness.

To build a solid reputation with yourself and others, to earn more money   …continues

Reality Check

August 21st, 2011

Reality CheckDeath and taxes are not the only guarantees in life: the truth counts as well, yet far too many people spend their lives denying the truth, avoiding reality, and playing the game of perception management.   …continues

The Secret Sauce

August 10th, 2011

The Secret SauceThe companies that put customers first win much more than loyalty; they win advocates. As passionate advocates, customers jump on the bandwagon and freely recommend your company to friends, neighbors, and colleagues.   …continues

Breakthrough Thinking

August 10th, 2011

Breakthrough ThinkingYour current questions, ideas, and efforts have brought you to where you are today. But if you want to produce bigger results, you need to think bigger too! Breakthroughs occur   …continues

The Rich Life

July 25th, 2011

The Rich LifeDo you want to live The Rich Life?

It’s actually very simple, as your life-long challenge is to reach out, to expand your limits, to passionately pursue your goals and dreams and to enjoy the rewards as they always follow whenever   …continues

Killer Career Strategies

July 25th, 2011

Killer Career StrategiesIndividuals are not much different from companies.

Having a trusted personal brand, or reputation, nets you the same advantages as a company.   …continues

Become a Rock Star

July 20th, 2011

Become a Rock StarIf the most important act of creation is self-creation, than one of your most important goals is to create a position for yourself as a rock star to your core audience.  …continues

Think Like a Customer

June 16th, 2011

Who is Challenging YouNO company can exist without happy customers.

These are the people who pay the mortgage, put food on the table, and help put your kids through college.

Loyal customers keep coming back and spending more   …continues

Never Give Up

June 6th, 2011

Never Give UpNothing concentrates the mind or tests our character like a demanding goal, the desire to be something better than we are, to be the complete person that we are meant to be.  …continues

Leave a Lasting Legacy

May 26th, 2011

Leave a LegacyLook at your life as a gift to future generations and rather than focusing on leaving an inheritance, let your character, your values, and the example of a life well-lived be your family heirloom to future generations.

Set an inspiring example that future generations will be proud of and more importantly want to protect and emulate.  …continues

Who is Challenging You?

May 20th, 2011

Who is Challenging YouWe have to accept that becoming uncomfortable is not a nuisance, but a necessity to growth, excellence and success.

With that in mind, here are a few questions for you to consider   …continues

Seven Glorious Days of Giving

May 10th, 2011

Seven Days of GivingSerial reciprocity is exactly what one might expect – a series of sequential exchanges between parties.

I hope that by sharing this understanding of serial reciprocity and by offering it as a challenge, that it illuminates benevolent motives in people throughout the world.   …continues

Success Loves Speed

May 8th, 2011

Success Loves SpeedEvery second or minute that you can take out of process or activity–such as closing a sale, manufacturing a product, and responding to customer needs–saves you time, and makes you more money.  …continues

Bold Actions, Bold Results

April 2nd, 2011

Bold ActionsWhen will your finest hour come, and how will it arrive?

The leader who consistently displays bold behavior will far outperform the person who does not. Boldness helps propel a person beyond what he or she might otherwise achieve.   …continues

What Would Socrates Do?

April 1st, 2011

SocratesSOCRATES is well known for using questions as a technology and a method of reasoning. He saw his task as helping people to ‘give birth’ to new insights, since it was his conviction that real understanding must come from within.  …continues

Are You Worth Following?

March 7th, 2011

Follow The LeaderLeadership is everybody’s business; it is an issue that affects each and every one of us. Not only do we look to leaders for guidance and direction, but also we are all called upon to exercise leadership in any number of temporary situations.  …continues

Two Opposed Ideas

February 21st, 2011

Opposed IdeasThis isn’t just true in philosophy and art, but is true in science as well:

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”   …continues

How Badly Do You Want It?

January 13th, 2011

How Badly?Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

If you want a thing bad enough   …continues

Results are Everything

December 26th, 2010

Results are EverythingMore and more people these days confuse intentions with results. In fact, many see them as being one and the same. How wrong and casualty creating that thought process is as the only thing that matters is your ability to produce results.  …continues

Time is Money

December 20th, 2010

Time is MoneyUnlike other resources, what makes time truly unique is that it cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or stolen, stocked up or saved, manufactured, reproduced, or modified.

While this familiar maxim may seem like an invention of our hectic and impersonal modern society   …continues

Cracking the Code

December 3rd, 2010

Putting Things in Perspective

3 Colors
7 Notes
10 Digits
26 Letters

What are you doing with them to make your life extraordinary?  …continues

Origami Meets Perfection

November 3rd, 2010

Oragami Meets PerfectionOrigami (from ori meaning “folding”, and kami meaning “paper”) is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s.

It has since then evolved into a modern art form.  …continues

Quality is Free

November 3rd, 2010

It's FreeWhy don’t more people and organizations get the message that not only is quality cheaper to make, it is also way cheaper to sell, in fact–it’s free!

The fact is, it’s always cheaper and smarter to do everything right the first time and here are a few reasons why  …continues

Bottlenecks & Breakthroughs

October 18th, 2010

Bottlenecks and BreakthroughsMost people are oblivious to their primary constraint and as a result continue to repeat an ongoing cycle of unproductive behavior.

You on the other hand, if you can identify it, than you can immediately begin working to correct it and I’d like to show you how.  …continues

Invent New Rules or Die

October 18th, 2010

Invent New RulesIf you aspire to make any kind of impact in the new world of business you must realize that you are really playing an altogether different game -competing for the future.

The future dictates new rules and if you don’t write them, someone else will!  …continues

Confronting Mediocrity

October 18th, 2010

Confronting MediocrityThere’s never a good time to be mediocre, but a recession punishes those who are inflicted with this disease. As far as employment opportunities are concerned, it’s cherry picking time for smart managers and entrepreneurs.  …continues

Skinny…Happy…Rich?

October 13th, 2010

Skinny Happy RichIf you really wanted to make significant and lasting change, you would ALREADY be skinny, happy and rich beyond your wildest dreams.

This brings up the critical question, if desire is not a strong enough emotion to get you to successfully achieve your goals, than what is?

The answer is…   …continues

Do It Now!

October 3rd, 2010

Do It Now!If you have a big, ambitious goal that’s been begging for your attention, when should you pursue it?

When should you start doing anything that’s really worth doing? You need to do it now!   …continues

Focus – Refocus – Focus

October 2nd, 2010

Focus - RefocusWith ever greater expectations and distractions, focusing on what’s most important, the highest and best use of your time has become more of a challenge than ever before.  …continues

Are You Creating or Repeating History?

September 15th, 2010

Create or Repeat HistoryIf you want to learn how to alter your mental programming, to walk down a different street and design a bigger, bolder, and better life than you must learn how to create history rather than repeat patterns and habits that do not produce desirable results.  …continues

The Price of Success

September 11th, 2010

SuccessEverything you want in life, every goal you want to achieve, every dream you want to manifest comes with a price tag.

There is NO FREE LUNCH when it comes to true success and achievement.  …continues

Are You Ready For a Challenge?

September 9th, 2010

100 Day ChallengeOne thing we all have in common is that we all love a challenge. For some it could be a goal that puts you to the test, an obstacle that says you can’t beat me, a belief system that is begging for a breakthrough, or even a mountain that just dares you to climb it.   …continues

Self-Reliance = Freedom

September 7th, 2010

Take InitiativeIn our highly competitive world, your ability to consistently demonstrate initiative and self-reliance is a true competitive advantage as the vast majority of people lean towards procrastination and hesitation as their operative performance state.   …continues

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise

September 6th, 2010

Healthy, Wealthy and WiseIf you’re tired of struggling with debt, fearful of the current economic crisis, and paralyzed by the pace of change, I’ve got a great way for you to take control of your future.   …continues

Step Up and Answer the Call

August 23rd, 2010

SuccessThere will never be a day in your life that will not require honesty, integrity, compassion, character, good judgment, discipline, self-control or focus.

In addition, there will never be a day of your life that does not provide you with the opportunity to get better, providing you the feeling that you can improve, if you only step up and answer the call.   …continues

It All Comes Down to Execution

August 20th, 2010

Work In ProgressA flawed premise of success is that the goal is the most important ingredient in the stew of success, and that you win or lose based on the merits or worthiness of the goal. How wrong and casualty-creating that premise is as the best goal or most honorable intention cannot survive poor execution.   …continues

Expose Yourself to Excellence

July 19th, 2010

Expose Yourself to ExcellenceExpose yourself to new ideas, to stimulating conversation, to positivity, to good–honorable people, to quality music, to healthy food, and…anything that displays excellent.  …continues

Birthday Wish: Random Acts of Benevolence

June 22nd, 2010

Happy Birthday
Once you recognize the importance of these acts and consider their implications, it becomes difficult to imagine daily life without engaging in random acts of benevolence.

Funky Street Sweeping

January 21st, 2010

Street SweeperIf a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.   …continues

The Truth about KPI’s

January 8th, 2010

Performance MesurementThe reality is that most leaders have gotten more and more precise and sophisticated at measuring less and less of an organization’s TRUE value.

At present, the entire focus of financial analysis is on “the numbers,” despite mounting evidence that they’re the WRONG numbers!   …continues

Do You Have the Right Stuff?

January 8th, 2010

Seek TruthTrue, big-time, legitimate success is something that is achieved by the MINORITY of people, and is therefore unnatural and not to be achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes nor by being guided by our natural preferences and prejudices.   …continues

Do It Right the First Time

January 7th, 2010

Do It RightDoing Things Right the First Time is a philosophy, a mentality, and a performance standard.

It’s a practical measure against which any system; process, action, or outcome can be analyzed.

  …continues

The Power of Commitment

January 6th, 2010

IntegritySuccess is the result of making and keeping commitments to yourself and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It’s that simple, that profound, and that important.   …continues

The Law of Exposure

January 4th, 2010

Law of ExposureYour mind thinks about what it is exposed too. Therefore, consciously give serious exposure to whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable. If anything is excellent or praiseworthy, expose yourself accordingly.   …continues

Extreme Makeover

December 31st, 2009

Extreme MakeoverI am often asked for a simple, effective, and no-nonsense approach to goal setting that can be used by anyone regardless of age or situation.

What follows is what I affectionately call the 30-Day Extreme Makeover. Follow it to the letter and you will be quite pleased with the outcome.  …continues

20 Important Questions

December 25th, 2009

20 Important QuestionsOne of the great things about trials and challenges is that they can force us into action. Just taking consistent action gets us 80% of the way toward any goal.

Based on the economic turmoil going on all around us, there is no more urgent time than right now to ACT. Everywhere people are losing their homes, their retirement savings, and the shirts off their back. It’s time to take your future by the horns and these 20 questions will help point the way!  …continues

Leadership Secrets from Santa Claus

December 24th, 2009

Secret SantaFor 26 years, a man known only as Secret Santa has roamed the streets of Kansas City every December quietly giving people money. He started with $5 and $10 bills.

As his fortune grew, so did the gifts. In recent years, Secret Santa has been handing out $100 bills, sometimes two or three at a time, to people in thrift stores, diners and parking lots.   …continues

RAVING FANS – Love the 100 Day Challenge

December 23rd, 2009

testimonialsMy primary 100 day goal was to advance to a certain level in a new network marketing company. I achieved the goal in 20 days using the quantum leap approach that you have taught us. As a result, I have reset my goal to advance 2 more levels. On a scale of 1 to 10, I evaluate this 100 Day Challenge as an 11.   …continues

Grow Up and Get Serious

December 6th, 2009

Grow UpOne thing about successful people is that at some point in their life, each one has looked in the mirror and decided that once and for all they were done playing games, they were done settling for table scraps, they were done standing by idly on the sideline while other people that they did not perceive as being as bright nor as talented lived in nicer homes and enjoyed a better quality of life.   …continues

TNT = Today Not Tomorrow

December 5th, 2009

T-N-TIf your results right this very instant are not where you want them to be, and if you have more excuses than goals achieved, when would be a good time to get back to the fundamentals of goal setting, focus and execution?   …continues

Ultimate Accountability

December 5th, 2009

100 Day ChallengeThroughout every area of your life it’s important to understand that ALL unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the result of broken promises, unfulfilled commitments, and lack of accountability.   …continues

Be Unreasonable

December 2nd, 2009

Be UnreasonableThe vast majority of people settle for just a small squeak of their potential because they bought into the belief that simply being reasonable is the way to go. How foolish and casualty creating that belief is.  …continues

Behavior Never Lies

November 30th, 2009

Behavior Never LiesI can tell you this with complete confidence, that by examining your behavior and results, I can see a clear picture of your commitment, I can gain an innate sense of your character, I can grasp a near perfect understanding of your beliefs, and I can most certainly see what you are really made of.  …continues

The Power of NO

November 26th, 2009

Power of NONo is a word of pure power that is both inner and out directed, and one that you must implement with great authority and conviction.

Your success in life requires a short “Yes” list, and a long “No” list.   …continues

The Comeback Rules

November 25th, 2009

Hollywood ComebacksComebacks, redemption and second acts are ubiquitous in our culture today and so often it is a major setback like cancer, divorce, job loss, the death of a loved one, bankruptcy, or an accident that puts the spotlight on our lives and shows us the way to a meaningful “second act.”   …continues

The Fine Art of Gratitude

November 24th, 2009

AltHerePractice is probably something you think you?re done with when you leave school or give up music lessons. But, have you ever thought of practicing the fine art of gratitude?

The simplicity of gratitude and the powerful effect it has on our lives is unequaled by any other practice of its kind.   …continues

Enforce Self-Discipline

November 22nd, 2009

Practice Self-DisciplineDiscipline is the virtue that gives you the courage and the inner resolve to do what you said you would do – when you said you would do it – period.  …continues

Strategic Repositioning

November 6th, 2009

Invent New RulesTechnological changes have ushered in an era of radical strategic repositioning.

Competitive advantages and profits will belong to innovators who transcend the existing parameters of competition.  …continues

Keep Score!

July 26th, 2009

Know the Score
Keeping score and inspecting your progress is important, not only in determining the ultimate winner of a contest, but also as a measuring device by which a person, team or company can gauge itself against the competition.   …continues

Practice Makes Perfect!

July 24th, 2009

AltTextHereLow achievers have a kind of blasé, laissez-faire attitude, when it comes to preparation. While high achievers prepare well and practice in advance to perform at their very best.   …continues

Intentions Aren’t Results!

July 21st, 2009

Intentions and Results
The world is filled with non-achievers who believe that intentions are more important than results.

For knuckleheads, effort is the same as accomplishment.   …continues

Visualize Success in Advance!

July 19th, 2009

Visualize SuccessWhen professional athletes perform well, they are not surprised at all. In fact, they expected to do well because they preformed flawlessly in their mind first – they visualized success in advance.   …continues

No Excuses Allowed

July 16th, 2009

No ExcusesThe tragedy of the average knucklehead is that they have become dependent on the deception, false belief, and unfortunately ease of use associated with making excuses.   …continues

What Are Your Goals?

July 13th, 2009

Define your goals.Because establishing goals is so important, you should put a great deal of time and mental effort into the process. The more specific your vision, the more likely you are to organize yourself around it.   …continues

How to Make an Out Going Call

July 10th, 2009

Outgoing CallsManage your outgoing and incoming calls with the same level of professionalism and discipline that you would with any business meeting.   …continues

Stop Interrupting Me

July 8th, 2009

Do Not DisturbALL interruptions are self-inflicted. You either let the interruptions happen or you don?t.

If everyone believes that you are available at all times, you are.   …continues

Push That Paper – Away!

July 6th, 2009

Paper StacksOne of the most important parts of being organized is figuring out what to do with all that paper.

The sheer volume can be overwhelming therefore you must have a system in place that manages the way you handle paper and you must be diligent in sticking to that system.   …continues

The High Cost of Disorganization

July 4th, 2009

disorganizedThere is a tremendous opportunity cost associated with remaining disorganized as every misplaced message or task left unaccomplished has a cost.

Some times the cost can be diminished reputation, lose of opportunity, and even financial pain. A lot of unfortunate, negative perceptions are created by the appearance of disorganization.   …continues

A Simple, Effective Time Management System

July 2nd, 2009

Time ManagementYour time management system might be good or bad, conscious or unconscious, but don’t be deceived; you do have a system for being organized or disorganized.

Your office or home might be in shambles. In that case, whether you admit it or not, your system consists of living in a mess.   …continues

Chronic Lateness Syndrome

June 30th, 2009

Making ExcusesOne thing you can count on from far too many people is their consistency in being late for just about any meeting. They are an equal opportunity offender and THIEF of others time, and patience.

These knuckleheads are not the sharpest knives in the drawer; they waltz in late, apologize profusely and insist that this incident was highly unusual.   …continues

Learn to Compartmentalize

June 28th, 2009

Focus DefinitionAfter you establish your goals and priorities for a day, hour, or a particular meeting or project you must compartmentalize.

Compartmentalization means focusing on each individual item without letting any one activity encroach upon the timing and effectiveness of any other.   …continues

Do All Things Lovingly

June 26th, 2009

Do All Things LovinglyA commitment to quality is a commitment to perfection as quality comes from putting your heart and soul into your work.

It means that you are lovingly doing all of the things that bring out your absolute best.   …continues

Unique, Original, and Outstanding

June 24th, 2009

Guido Daniele's HandimalsGuido Daniele is a brilliant artist who has turned his hand to creating a wholly different style of painting which he dubs as ?Handimals?.

Rather than working on canvas, he uses human hands to produce these stunning animals – like a Technicolor version of the “shadows on the wall” game.   …continues

The $5000 Car Wash

June 20th, 2009

Miracle DetailPaul Dalton has been hailed as “the best car wash in the world” by Autocar magazine, but an average invoice of $550 gives you a clue that this is more than your average shampoo and polish.

His company Miracle Detail, specializes in ‘detailing’ high-end cars, from vintage classics to supercars such as the Bugatti Veyron, and can cost anything up to a wallet-busting $5,000.   …continues

Perfectionism – Blessing or Curse?

June 18th, 2009

PerfectionPerfectionism helps the composer, poet, and writer to craft a work of beauty from random words which in turn touches the heart and mind.

Perfectionists search for ways to make the complex simple, visualize the perfect outcome, and work with an obsessive sense of conviction to make their vision a reality.   …continues

Granting Wishes to Strangers

June 17th, 2009

Granting WishesWish Upon A Hero is a very special site which was conceived by a very special man, Dave Girgenti.

Shortly after the September 11th attacks on New York City and from his home in NJ, Girgenti watched as thousands of people posted pictures of missing loved ones throughout the city.   …continues

On Personal Development and Self Improvement

June 14th, 2009

Standing out in a crowdEvery morning when you wake up, you can — and should — embrace the notion that there is something about you, your life, your business, or the way that you carry yourself that could stand to be improved.

Every day requires dedication, discipline, good judgment, energy — and the feeling that there’s something about yourself that you can make better.   …continues

Inspiring Excellence – Alpha to Omega

June 12th, 2009

Quality CompassLet’s cut right to the chase, you make hundreds of decisions every day. Some matter more than others. But committing to excellence is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in terms of your life’s success.

Excellence is a quality, a standard, and it will become the expected norm once you embrace excellence as a core value.   …continues

Execute or Die

June 10th, 2009

Race ExecutionA flawed premise of success is that the goal is the most important ingredient in the stew of success, and that you win or lose based on the merits or worthiness of the goal. How wrong and casualty-creating that premise is as the best goal or most honorable intention cannot survive poor execution.

Goals never fail. Only implementation does!  …continues

A Simple Execution Strategy That Works

June 7th, 2009

Goals Target.In computer science there exists a term called the divide-and-conquer algorithm.

What this algorithm basically does is that it breaks down a larger problem into smaller sub-problems and each of those sub-problems are then broken down into even smaller sub-problems.  …continues

The Difference Between Gold and Silver

June 4th, 2009

Phelps takes GoldThe other night I was watching a 60 Minutes interview with Olympic Champion Michael Phelps. During the interview, the host Anderson Cooper showed pictures of Phelps winning the 100-meter butterfly final at the Water Cube in Beijing by ONE-HUNDREDTH of a second over Serbia’s Milorad Cavic. >…continues

Inspiring Peace Through Music

June 3rd, 2009

Mark JohnsonMark Johnson is the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music: Playing for Change: Peace Through Music.

Playing for Change is a movement uniting people all over the world through music and inspiration. I absolutely love their mission and commitment to inspiring peace through music.   …continues

Sweat the Small Stuff

June 1st, 2009

Sweat the small stuffThere’s a very popular book series that has enjoyed a long life on the best seller list titled, Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.

As pragmatic advice on how to run a business and live a life of excellence, it’s a big steaming pile of nonsense. This is bad advice, and it spells trouble in the current economy.…continues