Posts Tagged ‘life’
Monday, December 26th, 2011
For the past eight years I’ve written a monthly e-newsletter about my business and life observations. The December issue is always a reflection on the things I learned. Here is a most delightful sixth lesson of 2011:
Gimme S’more – Pepperidge Farm knows what it’s doing when it comes to product extension – adding Pizza, [...]
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Monday, December 27th, 2010
Each month I write an e-newsletter that focuses on observations in business and life that could be beneficial for readers. The December issue is always a reflection on the lessons I learned during the year. Here is the 5th most important insight I discovered in 2010:
Stand On It – One of my intentions this [...]
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Saturday, December 25th, 2010
What’s the seventh most important lesson I learned during 2010?
Passages – This year I lost two uncles, an aunt and two cousins. As my friend said, “It’s the stage we are at in life.” I hadn’t spent much time with them in decades, so I decided the best way to pay tribute [...]
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Back in the day I created quite a few sports videos set to popular music for the various television entities where I worked as a producer. Two of my favorites were Kenny Loggins’ “Run for the Roses” (before the Cowboys played in the NFC Championship game the year the Super Bowl was to be at [...]
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Tags: beat, circa, day, Dwight Clark, God, inspirational ideas, Kenny Loggins, life, meditative state, music, NFC, nfc championship game, oak ridge boys, oak ridge boys thank god for kids, perfect words, producer, rhythm, rhythmic strokes, Rose Bowl, run, sports videos, television, television days, television entities
I’m Just Saying
Monday, January 24th, 2011Recently I decided to disengage from some of the community involvement in my life. I’m not re-upping for a board position when my three-year term is up in May, and in the past week I turned down two new requests to join committees. The reason is simple, if self-centered: our two kids remaining at home [...]
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