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Today… is HUMP DAY!

Hump Day Remix

hump-day

Why HUMP DAY?

Because, sometimes, you just gotta choose to let go of the negative, daily, “reality” show.. and ask yourelf:

Who Moved my Cheese, on this Hump Day?

Remember,  you get out of the day what you put into the day.

Therefore, take a moment to lay back for a bit of rest, because today can be a GREAT hump day!

Make it a GREAT day… Hump Day!

Happy New Year 2011: Dancing for Life with Reckless Abandonment on a Roof Top

Celebrating Life!

That has been a major theme in my adventure finding happiness being a journey, not a destination.

Along the way, in 1969 I discovered the Sons of Champlin (the Sons) a seven piece band with drums, guitars, keyboards, trumpet, alto sax, and vibraphone.   They had been together since 1967, and by 1969 the San Francisco music scene included the Fillmore and Avalon ballrooms for music performance, and as the Sons joined that music venue, they earned a reputation as a group of R&B and jazz musicians far above the caliber of the electrified folk-rockers who made up most of that scene.

GoCliff bands have a lively horn section
The horn section puts fire into songs and brings them to life. Celebrate Life!

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How Tim Ferriss squeezed out my old assumptions: “The 4-Hour Work Week” revisited.

It is April 2010, three years after the The 4-Hour Work Week (T4HWW) has been out on the New York best sellers list, and I’m attending a seminar by Mark Hoverson in search of answers, hoping to reinvent myself.  While addressing the issue of how we think of ourselves, and the immediate need to embrace a new paradigm of Leadership Branding for Direct Response Marketing, Mark oh so briefly mentioned Timothy Ferriss and his book as an important source document to read.

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Good business is more than just Positive Thinking

The following video created by RSA Animate dot org presents nicely some of the fallacy and danger using only a “Positive Thinking” attitude not based on other important character development attributes.  Positive attitude alone will produce the results shared in this video narrated by Barbara Ehrenreich who explores the dark side of positive thinking.

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