There are plenty of ideas that leave a bad taste in your mouth (especially in an election year), but I ran across a fresh new idea that is designed to leave a good taste in your mouth. This is not a paid or endorsed post (although I did use a referral link to the website), […]
Thinking is theory. Doing is knowing. A lot of concepts run through your head during the day. When you’re working on a project a hundred different ways of producing and presenting the work will run through your mind, but until you start doing the work you won’t know which way is more feasible or will […]
In a recent article I discussed the opportunity of looking at what might be referred to as waste by-products of manufacturing your product or service and seeing if something new and valuable could be created from those leftovers. One of the examples I gave was of the humble Tater Tot which came into creation when some […]
I don’t know where you’re headed, but I do know you won’t get there by sitting on your ass. You only accomplish your goals by working your ass off and being mule-headed about setting priorities and staying focused. Even Juan Valdez wasn’t sitting on his ass I’ve seen many Juan Valdez commercials when I was […]
Today I uncovered the solution to a problem that has been plaguing me for weeks and I got that “feeling” — you know the one — that feeling of figuring it out. When you get that first flash of thinking “maybe it worked” you feel a little apprehensive. You think you got it, but you […]
An idiom I try to remember is that if you find yourself in a hole — stop digging. Holes in which you may find yourself range from being on the wrong side of an argument, taking a gamble and losing — but trying to win it back, going all-in on an idea and not admitting […]
How many of you have heard the phrase “separating wheat from chaff”? Those of you familiar with the term probably know it’s referring to sorting the valuable from the worthless, using the process of “winnowing” which was traditionally done by repeatedly tossing grain into the air of a light wind which would allow the heavier […]