Life on the Sugar Free Front

Life on the Sugar Free Front Good Lord, do you have any idea how hard it is to eat sugar free? I started on the 15th of January. The first thing I did was go through my house and remove items on the not-approved list. The Food Pantry basket at our church was very happy!…

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Newspapers Dead?

Word is newspapers are becoming obsolete.  Yesterday’s news – and all that.   I disagree.  Newspapers are more than just news.  Yes, news is important.  With television and now the internet – it’s very easy to get the news almost as it is happening.  But not all newspapers are on the rat race to print…

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Why Would You?

Why would you use mouthwash that might cause cancer? Alcohol in mouthwash may raise cancer risk = United Press International 01-12-09 SYDNEY, Jan 12, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — Australian researchers say mouthwash containing alcohol increases the risk of developing oral cancer. The report, published in the Australian Dental Journal, suggests mouthwash be made available only…

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Social Media Reflections

Build A Relationship Mack Collier called it (again) – you can read it here – this whole social media business is about building relationships – not so much about promoting your product. How many of us are just tweeting away and blogging away – and not thinking so much about creating relationships? And it’s not…

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Blame it on Keith

Keith Burtis wrote a great blog about his dream house (www.keithburtis.com) – and I thought it only fitting I write one too!  If you look at www.ahouse4dom.com, Dominick has his house described as well. This is not a meme, but if you do decide to write about your dream house, please come back and comment…

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Who Are You Talking To?

Marybeth and Donald are two of my business partners.  We all have our own businesses, and work with a green company in the consumer direct marketing industry.   Tuesday Marybeth interviewed Don on what it is he is doing to grow his business.  Here is a portion of that interview – followed by my comments. …

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Be Your Own Community Manager

Several large companies have started hiring Community Managers. My friend Keith Burtis is a community manager for Best Buy Remix. Keith got me to thinking about how we are all really our own community manager. If you have your own business, you are the owner and responsible for how your experience on the web benefits…

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The Power of a Dream

The Power of a Dream Growing up we all had dreams. I wanted to write poetry and be famous. My brother was going to be a racecar driver. Then when we went to college – our dreams changed. I would be a teacher of poetry. My brother was going to be an engineer. When we…

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Mindmap

Friday morning I started the mindmapping process.  I was going to have three goals (see bottom of pic): zero debt, healthy, Sr. Director in my business. I started with Healthy.  Drew a cool pic at the middle bottom of the page.  Then I thought about what I had to do to get healthy.  I came…

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Done While Having Fun

Lots of talk about doing instead of talking. I’m on the doing side of the conversation. Here’s what I’m doing this weekend. Mindmapping with Cruzanne (results on tomorrows blog). Launch training Saturday in Chicago for my company. New products, new horizons presentation by Eddie Bestosa – one of the best in the network marketing industry.…

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