Did you have some great ideas in 2010? What became of them?  Did you act on them and create something…or are they still just great ideas?

Here are some thoughts about ideas:  Read the rest of this post

1. Ideas without action are called dreams.
2. Ideas are worth exactly $0.00 unless someone brings them to life.
3. Most people don’t care about your ideas (they have plenty of their own).
4. VC’s don’t throw cash at ideas.
5. When people have good ideas, they keep them inside for fear of someone else stealing them.

I was recently going through my iPod when I came across my favorite podcast series The Moth. The Moth is an incredible series of storytellers brought together under one electronic roof to tell true stories live, without notes or PowerPoints. Just good old-fashioned story telling. And there are some amazing stories to be heard for sure. I settled on one I had heard before and it makes me laugh, so I listened again. It’s a story by A.J. Jacobs, who is a New York Times bestselling author, Esquire editor, and self-described human guinea pig. His story is called Outsourcing My Life. Without dragging you through the whole story, take a listen to the story right here, and when you’re done, read on. It’s short, captivating, and very funny.  Read the rest of this post

Last February, I spent a few weeks on my back with a herniated disk and pinched nerves in my neck. (Yes, it hurt). One of the worst parts of spending time in bed was missing my daily indulgence of visiting Starbuck’s for my coffee in the morning. One morning, my amazing wife brought me home a nice, hot Starbucks mocha. I usually don’t look to my coffee cup for inspiration, but laid up and having not much else to do, I started reading “The Way I See It” on the side of the cup. I really liked the quote, but, in a Vicodin-Espresso induced haze, I lost track of the cup and forgot the quote. Well, here I am over a year later sitting in Starbuck’s sipping a mocha and what do you know, I got the same cup. Well, not the very same cup, that would be kind of gross, but I think you get what I mean. I thought, hmmm, maybe karma is telling me something. Here’s what my cup said:  Read the rest of this post

Something incredible happened to me a few weeks ago. Something life changing. Something that gave me a lot of clarity. Something close to miraculous. I lost my job. That’s right, I lost my full-time job. And do you know what? It was one of the best things to happen to me in a long, long time! In all the hustle and bustle and “busy-ness” of keeping my career going on just about a 24-7 basis, I lost sight of a lot of things.  Read the rest of this post