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Thoughts that make me stop and think...

Education + Application = Knowledge

Decks from past breakouts and Keynotes. Enjoy.

This is a place to find the stuff that I am reading, listening to or generally inspired by.

Its is not intended to signal whole hearted endorsement of any individual or company nor them to me...
I will give best effort to cite intellectual ownership.

Enjoy and be inspired

The Virtue Of First Followers - 3 minutes lesson in leadership...

A must watch!

"Desire is the contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what it is you want" via Naval Ravikant

"Happiness comes from being useful..." Scott Adams

I get asked a lot where i find some of my physical resources for my training.
This is a great website for grabbing some of these things.

Need some design or content, check out this app. Check out FIVERR

It will connect you with Graphic designer ,writing or translation. or even digital marketing help?
Connect with people all over the world and get the help you need at the terms you like.

Check it out!

Tim Ferriss...the number one business podcast in the country

This podcast has perhaps had the most influence on me in the past few years.
Tim Ferriss is probably best known as a best selling author of the 4 hour series.(4 hour work week and 4 hour body)

By listening to this I find that I am exposed to a wide and varied selection of resources and subjects.

Everything from founders, CEO's, military leaders, social leaders and artists.

By committing time to this it drastically cuts down my need to source information elsewhere.

Great Video On Teamwork

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
– Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel prize winner, courtesy of Tim Ferriss

Here is a great primer on all things learning styles.

All You Need to Know About the 'Learning Styles' Myth, in Two Minutes

In meetings sometimes instead of taking notes, I will just record the meeting with my Iphone.

You can send the MP4 off to these guys and they will send you an accurate transcript back within 24 hours.

I have a tough accent and they nailed it.

Great time saver if you are looking to concentrate on flow rather than accurate note taking.

"Anyone not capable of a little magic...needn't trouble themselves with cooking" Jean-Marie Lacriox

All that we see is not truth...

If life is out of balance take a look at this and then allow some time for reflection.

A few thoughts...
"The goal of Coaching is growth. The goal of Training is change"
Further thought
"Coaching; a person is already good at skills. Training is about giving new skills ".
Bill Bartlett

The changing desktop...

An App you should absolutely be using...

Time management is something I have spent a lot of time researching..

I have struggled to get away from hand written notes, it may be an age thing but there are times when it is just more appropriate.
The Evernote App is the best one I have found.
The Moleskin notebooks have the best integration I have seen to date.

The free version is great and if you like it you should consider upgrading to Premium.

Lau Tzu, Chinese philosopher wrote: "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

Podcast

Dan Carlin - Hardcore History

Looking for a great podcast you should listen to, try Dan Carlins Hardcore History.

An Award winning podcast that really is known for the long form of pod-casting.

Driving through the details in an incredibly entertaining way...

The time will fly and you will be surprised by what you learn and the relevance of that in today's world.

Visit his website here…

From Seth Godin
"In fact, the gap isn't between the people who know and those that don't. It's between the people who show up with their best work, and those that hold back".

Steve Jobs - how to handle and insult

His reaction:

He pauses to reset his emotions. This is so very important and the hardest part.
He agrees with his accuser.
He helps everyone see the larger picture.
He uses vulnerability to his advantage.
He praises his people.
He finishes strong.

Via Kevin Rose

"Things in excess often become there opposite"...Rolf Potts via Tim Ferriss

"The way you do anything is the way you do everything..."

Seths Corner

The way Seth Godin thinks and writes is a brass ring to strive for...
I share his thoughts whenever I can, and I seek to credit him for his thoughts. he is a fantastic example of how to communicate...

This post is why he has my attention whenever he chooses to share...

Click here to go to his blog…and you should absolutely subscribe…

Excerpt from the daily blog of Seth Godin

"The up-goer 5

Here's Randall Munroe's brilliant explanation of how the Saturn V rocket works. The brilliant part is that he illustrated it using only the 1,000 most common words (which, ironically, doesn't include the word 'thousand').

If you are only able to use 1,000 words, nuance goes out the window.
The typical native speaker knows 20,000 words, and there's your opportunity:

If you know 40,000 words, if you learn five words a day for a decade, the world changes. Your ability to see, to explain and to influence flies off the charts.

It's not about knowing needlessly fancy words (but it's often hard to know if the fancy word is needless until after you learn it). Your vocabulary reflects the way you think (and vice versa). It's tempting to read and write at the eighth-grade level, but there's a lot more leverage when you are able to use the right word in the right moment.""

All other things being equal (simple contribution analysis for pricing)

If you make a product that costs $5 to produce and package, how much should you charge for it? I don't know. But there's a simple bit of arithmetic you can do to understand sensitivity in pricing. Should you charge $7 or $9? Well, if you charge $7, you ...

All other things being equal (simple contribution analysis for pricing) If you make a product that costs $5 to produce and package, how much should you charge for it?
I don’t know.
But there’s a simple bit of arithmetic you can do to understand sensitivity in pricing.
Should you charge $7 or $9?
Well, if you charge $7, you make $2 a unit.
If you charge $9, you make $4 a unit, or twice as much.
Which means, all other things being equal, you’ll need to sell twice as many at $7 as you’ll need to sell at $9.
It doesn’t feel that way, but it’s true. 100 sold at $9 is more profitable than 180 sold at $7. And to take it a step further, you’ll need to sell 800 at $5.50 to make as much as you would have made at $9. Eight times as many.
No one knows what your demand curve is going to be like, no one is sure what impact your pricing will have on all the other items you sell.
But be honest with yourself about contribution.
Story is a price, it’s a price we tell ourselves and others about what we have to offer. But price is also the path to being able to stay in business.

[Unrelated helpful tip: A significant bug exists in Word, one that just cost me two hours. If someone sends you a Word file as an attachment in Gmail and then you drag that to Word to start editing it (without formally downloading it first), Word will let you work on it, save it, work on it some more, close it–and then your work is gone forever. Don’t do that.]

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