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Do something. Just don’t do everything.
As you can probably guess from my quotes page, I really believe that what we DO gives us much more credibility than what we KNOW or what we SAY. We can hold a lot of beliefs and ideas, but how we live says a lot more about what we truly believe. I’m beginning to realize,…
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Yeah, we’re famous.
Continuing our “do everything you can in LA while you have the chance” trend, Grete and I again went to the SAG awards as seat fillers. I’m sure Grete will be blogging more about it if you’re interested. For now, here’s a little video from before and after the event… (We haven’t seen it on…
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Not in it for the money
Here’s a nice piece of wisdom Seth Godin wrote a while back: Seth’s Blog: Doing it for free: “Woz wasn’t looking to make a lot of money when he invented the Apple computer, and Nolan Bushnell certainly didn’t imagine he was creating the video game industry when he invented Pong. Cory and the rest of…
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Flashback Friday: Life starts now
So I’ve been blogging here for more than two years. Sometimes I’ve even written a thing or two worth reading (maybe…possibly?). So instead of repeating myself, each Friday I’m going to pull something from the archives you may have missed. We’re starting with a goodie from December 2006… —– File this under the “that’ll preach”…
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Presence and proximity
Real connection – real progress – is about presence and proximity. This even applies in businesses. Google talks about it below (From the Google Blog). Traders in the same location tend to make the same trades at the same time. The trades of cubemates within a small radius is the best predictor we found. By…
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Life change, anyone?
Unclutterer.com posted an interview with Peter Walsh, host of TLC’s Clean Sweep that talks about his new book and his mission to help people keep “stuff” from controlling their lives. This doesn’t just apply to clutter… Unclutterer: What steps do you take to insure that your clients won’t revert to their old clutter-hoarding ways after…
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Pursuing your Holy Discontent
You’ve been getting mainly links and not many original thoughts here recently, and part of the reason is that most of those thoughts have been going towards classes and church work. We’ve started a new small group study at the church that I’ve been writing the curriculum and chapter summaries for. It’s been exciting to…
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Monday Morning Links: Christianity on CNN and Leadership
Just a few things that caught my eye this morning… > Ed Stetzer was interviewed on CNN recently about some of the research he’s done on unchurched folks’ opinions about Christians. Here’s a clip. > John Moore of Brand Autopsy posts a great quote from Tom Peters on how leaders are rarely the best performers.…
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Get to the point!
We could talk about Steve Jobs’ communication style or the loyalty of Apple fans (or how I’m sure I’d accidentally forget about my MacBook Air and throw it away in an interoffice envelope), but instead let’s do this. I know some of you wanted to watch Steve’s keynote, but you didn’t have the time. Here…
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Hasbro wants to shut down Facebook App Scrabulous.
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Things around the internets
Here are a few things I’ve clicked on recently… I love this version of the Myers Briggs personality profile because it just asks you which categories you fit into and then tells you about it. For people with some self awareness, you can get to the results without 596 questions! There are more rich folks…
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Quotable: Consistency
“The consistent work enhanced my act. I learned a lesson. It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical. Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time.”What was hard… was to be good. Consistently good. Night after night,…
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Linkage: What worked and what didn’t
I love learning from what others are doing. Here’s a list from Chris Elrod about what worked and didn’t at Compass Point in 2007… I’m beginning to realize just how different Compass Point is from other churches around Lakeland and the United States. What works everywhere else usually bombs here. 2007 was Compass Point’s third…
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Finding leaders who are “one of us”
Most groups think in some way about building up leaders, but another important area to consider is leadership transitions. A lot of times, when a leader decides to move on, someone else is pulled from the outside to take up the mantle of leadership and move forward. If it’s done well, this can be a…
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Reliving the 90s and hearing from Jesus
>> While cleaning and working on things tonight, Grete and I also relived a glorious decade with iTunes Essentials: 90s One-Hit Wonders >> At church today, saw these crazy things in the Children’s Ministry department. Don’t know about you, but I never knew Jesus was a 35-year-old buff white guy who quotes himself. There’s also…
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