For many years I’ve thought I had this special gift for ideas.  I love coming up with new ideas and ways to do things.  I just love to figure things out.   That’s it, there’s nothing else to this gift.   Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who have this “gift.”  The more I age, the more of these people I meet.  In fact, in retrospect, I’ve met so many of these people that it’s hardly a “gift” anymore.

Over the years, I’ve used the words “Visionary,” “Leader,” and even Scientist, Inventor or Engineer has come up.

The “world” has some different names for these people with this “gift.”

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Isn’t it odd how the juxtaposition of screens at a gym give you a weird little insight into our world?

I’m warming up on the treadmill, ready to go hit the weights and up pops up the discussion from sports analyst of whether Lebron James is better than Michael Jordan.  I’ll share my take in a minute.  While this is riveting discussion, I’ve already made up my mind and so I scan right past screen number 2 (the hoover infomercial) and land on screen number 3.  On this screen, we have Joe Biden encouraging the people of North Carolina.  There’s really only problem with this… he’s in Virginia.  (Ironically, Biden Gaffes is a hotly searched for term on the internet).  Then of course was the coverage of Atlanta’s own Beltline miss-use of funds .

This all led me to absolute conclusion on who was a better basketball player and what our country needs most.

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10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Rely On Company Provided Websites

Originall posted in 2012 and yet most of it is still true!  If you work for a financial or real estate company chances are you get a company website.  In fact, they might even offer it to you as a bonus!   I mean what could be better than not have to pay for your own website.   Please don’t share this with your boss, but you probably need your own website and I’ll tell you why in this blog post!

For this blog I reviewed some of the top company sites that offer templated sites or “profile” sites for their employee/members/contractors.  The companies we reviewed were Keller Williams Realty, Remax, Edward Jones, State Farm, AllState to name a few.  Some sites were so convoluted that it was hard for us to even use (Prudential).  Incidentally, Prudential changed their name and all their domains are now parked.

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You might have read my previous thought about excellence and how it spilled over into my “regular” life (It Starts With Your Work) and so you might thing “Giving it my all” is an innate quality that I have.  Nope.  I want to get things done, I never really wanted to give it my all.  Then it hit me, literally yesterday…

I was listening to Michael Hyatts podcast yesterday (highly recommended) and he was answering the question about content.  It went something like this…

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