My wife, Laura, wanted to get rid of that red couch for some time. The deal was finally sealed when my German Shepherd puppy, Sita, chewed a big hole right in the front. In the picture you can see the hole just under Sita’s front paw. The pup (now 106#) was teething and though we […]
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That’s what my daughter, Ruchi, said to me last night just a couple of hours before I wrote this down. She was bragging about how she had hacked into our family computer. To the right you see the two of us at the diner Sunday morning. She is holding up a milkshake she is proud
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Here in DC we are with snow again! This has to be a great year to be a kid; the snow keeps coming adjacent to the weekends forcing schools to close. This is the 5th such snow in the last 3 months! Are these snows inconveniences? Not if you’re ready! By ready I don’t mean
If you find yourself dissatisfied with your own performance, here is an assessment that will uncover what you can do about it. When it comes to those things you can influence, these five factors are what enable you to deliver results. To the extent than any one is weak or inadequate, your performance will be
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Just about the time this newsletter goes out, 3am est, the snow is supposed to hit in earnest bringing us 5-9″ here in Washington, DC. As it is a Monday the kids will have another day off from school, an extension of the weekend. This is the next in a long series of snows that
Last week I was in Tampa with a group of colleagues. We meet every five months or so to help each other with our business strategies, all solopreneurs like myself with advanced practices. Almost as soon as we gathered we created a visual that we called the Axis of Vulnerability to describe our work at
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What makes the special bond between two beings? Here is my daughter Ruchi sleeping with Betsy, our Cairn-Bischon mutt. The day Ruchi first arrived in our house from India she was enamored with Betsy, petting her and covering her with blankets. Apparently the feeling was mutual because Betsy let her do these things. Over the last 2
Last week, just after an engagement in Puerto Rico, I visited my good friends, Donald and Rosie in Vieques, which is a tiny island off the coast of the larger island. I crossed the water in an 8-seat plane. It was a parenthesis inside of a fabulous business trip. Donald and Rosie took good care
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When I focus on something intensively, I often find that there are three stages that repeat themselves: Building capacity Repetition and refinement Breakthrough I have been rediscovering this through my recent pursuits in weight lifting. First I had no capacity. I just could not do some of the exercises that I wanted to do. So,
Excerpted from my Feb 10 presentation for business leaders in Washington DC.
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