March 2008

My wife owes me an apology!

March 13, 2008

Is it coincidence that on a day I don’t blog, I have the most hits in a single day? J I certainly appreciate everyone stopping by and please feel free to comment. Tell me what you like, dislike about the blog. Don’t be shy! So why does my wife owe me an apology? I’ve had [...]

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The Power of Negative Training

March 11, 2008

Just taking a moment to get some business out of the way. This is a business blog after all. J Whenever I give a keynote, people always come up to me afterward and want to know how they can get more information. An hour doesn’t begin to cover they uses of negative thinking. Below is just [...]

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Monkey Monday: You’re Gibbon Me a Headache

March 10, 2008

From Punkeys.com: Just another in a long list of reasons why you shouldn’t have a pet monkey. From the Sun: Meet Brian the gibbon . . . the monkey neighbor from hell.   Every morning at dawn his deafening whoops shatter the peace of scenic Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, and wake the neighbors three miles away. Farmer [...]

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Winners…and losers.

March 6, 2008

Dear Ralph Nader:  www.despair.com Tweet

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Fear itself…

March 5, 2008

I’ve talked about innate fear before but this article highlights something I talk about in my presentations and demonstrates that “negative thinking” is a natural occurrence and is vital to our survival. From LiveScience: Fear of snakes is one of the most common phobias, yet many people have never seen a snake in person. So [...]

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The more we change…

March 4, 2008

Seems stupid driving is a tradition in America. We can blame cell phones and arrogance as the main reason for bad driving nowadays (and I do). But as this Washington Journal piece describes, when it comes to driving, we’ve always sucked: Every year, about 42,000 people die in automobile-related accidents in the U.S. In 1930, [...]

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Media Monday: Pure as the driven snow?

March 3, 2008

Here’s another story with ominous overtones that amounts to nothing. But it does it’s job by making you nervous. From CNN.com: Those beautiful snowflakes drifting out of the sky may have a surprise inside — bacteria. Most snow and rain forms in chilly conditions high in the sky and atmospheric scientists have long known that, [...]

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