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2011
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The King's Speech Way back (or at least it seems like that) on 12/28/10 I saw and reviewed this movie. (Geofrey) Rush plays a speech therapist who came to the aid of the Duke of York (Colin Firth), later to become King George VI of Britain, who suffered from a debilitating speech impediment. The ...
02/28/2011
Surviving Your Serengeti - Active Rain Challenge Stefan Swanepoel places the characters of his fable, Sean and Ashley Spencer, on a prize adventure to the Serengeti. Sean, with no bars on his cellphone, exchanges his concrete jungle for the Serengeti dust and heat. The animals become the metaphor...
02/25/2011
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I know I was awake at 3am because I put on a CD to listen. Bob Burg (Endless Referrals) was discussing his books The Go Giver and Go Givers Sell More. He was being interviewed by Ty Bennett (CD cover shown in my blog yesterday) for about an hour. Definitely a good start to the day. I could have s...
02/24/2011
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MY Goldmine. Where's my shovel? I have been to meetings and courses that were attended mostly by Real Estate people, where I have felt like I was in a room of dominant or dominating egos - everyone having the right solution for every topic and eager to get their view across. Today, I mixed it up...
02/23/2011
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100 Day Attack - 20 Days In Twenty days have passed very rapidly. My theme is clients, clients, clients. At the 10 day mark, I increased my activity by about 10% in a variety of fields, notably prospecting. This has been active - mildly annoying more people so that they know what I do, and passi...
02/19/2011
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Full Moon Challenges Tomorrow sees one of my allnighters for the week. It is also full moon which seems to bring out problems challenges (always wanted to use strikethrough)and special people, just to make my evening notable. With a change of shifts last month, I caught the full moon, and next mo...
02/17/2011
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Once upon a lunch plate... One of the joys of having a home office is being looked after by a wonderful wife. So while listening to Steven Graham on his Active Rain University webinar on "Outside Blogs", CL pushed my catch all lunch plate under my nose so that I could multi-task. Some years ago ...
02/16/2011
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Are you SAD?This lethargy, depression, withdrawal phenomenon that appears late fall, and lasts the darker months. has a name. It's SAD. No really, it's Seasonal Affective Disorder. Since it has a name, there is probably a pill to fix it. You may know it as the winter blues, really a deficiency...
02/15/2011
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Rockin' in the Rockies UT My early training in Archeology included Climatology, Geology and Geomorphology. Hence I have a greater than normal interest in things that go "bump" (mostly in the night). When University of Utah Seismograph Stations reported an occurrence in Lehi UT (sigh of relief: i...
02/14/2011
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A sunny, Sunday afternoon from my front yard in Sandy, UT. Just a heap of images unified by a gladdening hint of sunshine (for the next few days at least) and a possible infusion of Vitamin D. The Weather Channel describes the day as "Lot's of sunshine, temperatures in the high 40s." Then "snow ...
02/13/2011