making choices

Suffer Today to Survive Tomorrow?

August 6, 2009

People always try to avoid negative experiences. One of the great uses of negative thinking is to use it to see potential problems so you can bypass them altogether. But often, you need to have those negative experiences to make you better prepared for potential worse experiences in the future. Take the Swine Flu. Seems [...]

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Cultural Change Comes From the Young to the Old

July 31, 2009

Here’s an article that shows how cultural shifts do not trickle down from old to young but from the youth to the older generations. If those pesky kids with their new fangled twitter machines and iphones annoy you, beware…you just might want one too. From CNN: Teenagers exchange text messages while driving because, well, they’re [...]

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Know Who You Are

July 29, 2009

Bret Favre and I both had the same kind of decision to make yesterday: To stay retired or take the field at less than 100%. No, the Minnesota Vikings didn’t call me yesterday. But a speaker’s bureau did. This bureau was looking for a local comedian in Texas to do an IT client’s event and [...]

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Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed

July 1, 2009

With all the celebrities dropping like flies, rumors of other celebrities kicking the bucket are running rampant. CNN even had an article on it today: After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars. Despite what you may have read, Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George [...]

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Hey Joe Buck! What did you expect??

June 16, 2009

One of the tenants of negative thinking is thinking about possible outcomes. Not dwelling on horrible or bad outcomes, but understanding possibilities so you can avoid bad situations. And that is why I have no sympathy for Joe Buck when his guest Artie Lange acted like a foul-mouthed abusive idiot. That’s Artie Lange!! You know [...]

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The Shunning of Someone Right

June 10, 2009

I’ve blogged about this in the past here, but I saw this last night and it is a reminder that it often takes courage to stand up and tell people something they don’t want to hear, but need to hear. Peter Schiff has been trying to fix the economy for years, only to get the [...]

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Have “Texting Thumb”?

May 26, 2009

Do you have a new fangled Kindle? Wish you could read this blog on it? Wish no more! Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and [...]

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NASA – Never Assume, Stay Alert

May 12, 2009

For all the negative things government is known for, it’s good to see one of the “cooler” agencies, NASA, is using negative thinking the right way. They’re taking my motto “Be Positive, Think Negative” to good use.  The headline from CNN says it all – Astronauts ready for rescue mission they hope never happens. In [...]

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Don’t Disregard the Message Just Because You Don’t Like the Messenger

May 8, 2009

Often, we dismiss people out of hand because we don’t like their personality, their history or for numerous other reasons. “Never mind him, he always complains.” “Oh, he’s just negative, don’t listen to him.” Often, complainers have a tendency to have less than palatable personalities. They’re grumpy, whiny, grating types. What we forget is that [...]

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You Can’t Outrun Who You Are

May 7, 2009

Often, people who do a job feel they don’t have to follow the same rules. They think either the rules don’t apply or that they’ll never get caught. They need a small dose of negative thinking, letting them know the reality of the world. It keeps their nose clean and on the right path. Take [...]

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