Status Quo vs. Innovation
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How Don Knotts Saved Christmas…
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Bento Box
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The Impact You Have …
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Last night, my brain spun like a top. Probably why I slept so bad. Or because I forgot to pop my melatonin. My good friend Ryan wrote something yesterday that triggered my brain. It put things into real perspective. I’ll paraphrase it here, using my own numbers. On Facebook, I’ve written 189 of these posts. […]
I Kill Myself
I have a confession to make. One of my time management techniques: I deliberately kill myself, trying to reach my goals. The first time I was introduced to any concept of time management was in college. My engineering design team’s assignment: create a non-conventional passenger aircraft. A huge undertaking. Our professor drew a bell curve […]