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Personal Brilliance

Milestones – an insight into high performance

March 12, 2012

I played 9 holes of golf yesterday. So what? Well, 70+ degrees in Columbus, OH in March is unusual but the real significance is that I had my third surgery on my left knee January 31. It was a relatively minor clean-up of torn cartilage on this reconstructed knee. Relatively speaking, not that big a [...]

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Life Balance

December 14, 2011

A trait of the innovator is an intensity of focus. Think about Thomas Edison sleeping in his laboratory or the engineers at Apple computer not sleeping for four days straight and living on pizza and coke. Boy, that really sounds glamorous and exciting, doesn’t it? Sure, as long as someone else is doing it. But [...]

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Contracompatible

August 19, 2011

My friend David Staley discusses his concept of Universitas as a gathering of diverse minds to create and innovate. We get together each month (30-50 people) for dinner and discuss pertinent topics. In front of the group last night David mentioned a light bulb that turned on for him when he saw an ad for [...]

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Little Book of Leadership from Jeffrey Gitomer Out Today

May 3, 2011

TODAY ONLY – Tuesday, May 3rd Buy Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Book of Leadership on Amazon today, and get a tons of free stuff from Jeffrey and 30 other top business leaders, motivators, authors, and educators, including me. Over the past 20 years, Jeffrey has established himself as a global authority on sales and customer loyalty, [...]

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Meijer: I may be able to find chopped green chiles

April 25, 2011

Meijer is launching an app that will direct me to the right shelf for the product I want. Hallelujah!!! I’m pretty domestic. I like to cook, do my share of the clean-up, etc. But send me to the grocery store and my blood pressure increases 50 points. My wife makes a great dip that requires [...]

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Social BOOM by Jeffrey Gitomer

March 29, 2011

TODAY ONLY – Tuesday, March 29th! Buy Jeffrey Gitomer’s Social BOOM! on Amazon today, and get a heaping handful of free stuff from Jeffrey and 17 other top business leaders, motivators, authors, and educators…including me! Over the past 20 years, Jeffrey has established himself as one of the most widely read sales authors of all [...]

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Mind Expansion

February 27, 2011

On the path to brilliance it’s important to consistently expand your mind, opening new pathways. My friend David Staley talks frequently about domain bridging in which various disciplines come together for innovation. We can bring that concept down to the personal level. What can you do to open up new pathways? Well, let’s ignore LSD [...]

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The News Fast

January 26, 2011

In Personal Brilliance we recommend trying a News Fast for a period of time, say two weeks starting with local news.

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Ignite – The Hardest Speech of My Career

December 27, 2010

Note: It may take longer to read this post than it took to deliver the speech I’m writing about. Among a few other things, I’m a professional speaker. That basically means that companies and associations pay me to speak to their gathered audience in order to help them accomplish something – get ready to innovate, [...]

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Twitter deepens personal connections

December 21, 2010

The best part about twitter for me are the personal connections that are created from the online connection. Another example this weekend: My brother-in-law visited Ohio from California and brought his new girlfriend and her 16 year old daughter. Our family is pretty huge and loud and I imagine scary when we’re all in one [...]

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