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I told this to my daughter as we were discussing lessons from the chapter she was reading in “The Obstacle is the Way” by Ryan Holiday. In this chapter the author hammers the point of always maintaining power while living life and running across obstacles. Shit happens. Good and bad. Some even tragic. Yet, we always have a choice in those instances. Some of our greatest challenges...
A PARENTING STORY: THE RULE OF 3 (How Not to Be Annoying) My girls were getting older. They were talking a lot about a lot and obviously annoying each other a lot. And as you can imagine; repeating themselves all the time. I caught myself telling them to chill out and stop being annoying. You don’t want to be that kid (or adult) that gets a hold of something and doesn’t know when to stop...
This Mexican’s Independence Day 8 years later…. and I’m still here. Thank goodness because several little people were counting on me. As my time to walk away was approaching in 2009, I decided to put on this very website the graphic below. I swear. I then told my entire social network. Not facebook, but people I knew from work and friends. They would visit this very site and...
For the first ever
He held me. He hugged me.
With a tight embrace.
Face pressed up against me.
I felt love. Pride. Joy.
For the first time ever.
He made me feel loved.
He made me feel like a good son.
Just with a hug.
He pulled me in close.
For the first time ever.
EXTREME OWNERSHIP (No excuses) If you’re bored. Find a hobby. Anything. Go to Meetup.com and search anything which intrigues you. Just pick something. Take action. Be bold and make a decision. If you don’t like your new hobby, pick a new one. You have permission to change your mind. Often. You will eventually make this hobby your passion. And there are few things more beautiful than...
“Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.” ∼ Albert Einstein I posted this on my Facebook wall today and didn’t realize how much it would play out in my mind today. I have known this to be true for quite some...
When I was much younger, I was persuaded into believing that I could do anything by all the propaganda out there. Although my parents did the best they could, they weren’t the ones that fed this to me. But I did believe it. An extension of that is believing that I can change things about myself that I didn’t like. So when I first came across the idea that doing anything for only 20-30...
In the past several years I have been working hard to get to the point to be able to give back to my community. I have worked and hustled to meet people in the community that could show me what needs to be done. One of my big questions had been just exactly could I contribute. What do I have to offer? At this point it isn’t money. At least not yet. (I have a dream to have a Teevee...
This is my first attempt at a “PREZI”. It is simply an online tool for presentations. I plan on using it to replace PowerPoint.
It is a more appealing way to present and keep the audience engaged in my presentations.
This is a very simple first attempt and excited at the elements I will be able to add to my presentation in very unique ways.
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I have been attending a lot of networking events and connecting with a lot of great people in the last several months. I was given an invitation to attend a networking event this past week by one of those very connections. Are you still following? The speaker for the event was Maria Quintana (VP of Multicultural Sales at Pepsico). The main topic of conversation was on personal branding for...
It wasn’t an easy decision. I have two precious daughters that depend on me to provide for them. The decision was painful. SERIOUSLY! I remember my gut hurting and my mind aching. There were so many things to consider and so many things to fear. What’s that stat about new businesses? 9 out of 10 fail or something along those lines. I crunched the numbers and figured out the amount of...
She handed me the paper folded up with the words “To: Daddy” written very carefully in her best handwriting. Delicately, with her watching over me, I opened it up and saw the most beautifully illustrated family picture you can imagine: Daddy, her sister, and her. The family picture had the most beautiful rainbow you have ever seen in the background and a sun shining over us. Let me...
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