Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Friday, September 05, 2008
One Man Can | Belief, Choice, and Hard Work
A truth shared through a personal story. Belief in others starts with belief in one self. Externals have less to do with outcomes than internals. It doesn't always come easily.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching
As a creative type, particularly as a writer, the time it takes to sit and ruminate - processing the debris, chaff, and gold that has accumulated in the mind - is what allows the creative spark to ignite a good work for others to read. The last 12 months, I've watched my writing waffle as this articles reality became my own as I juggled new tasks
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
One Man Can | Belief, Choice, and Hard Work
A truth shared through a personal story. Belief in others starts with belief in one self. Externals have less to do with outcomes than internals. It doesn't always come easily.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Eeyore Rules, Piglet, Pooh, and Roo too!
Hahaha... Eeyore Rules, reminding us the richness of life walks on both sides of our experiences.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
Does Your Staff Cooperate Or Collaborate With You?
Small Business entrepreneurs can gain even more with these few tips. Many likely do many things on the list fairly well, but we're also the sort who always strive toward success and are willing to learn and grow.
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
Vulnerable Kindness is Strength or Weakness?
"vulnerability is the opposite of weakness" - "fear drives the worst kind of human behaviour"
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
How to be positive
In response to the question: "Hi, can you tell me how to be more positive? I am finding my self not to be positive about a lot of things."
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Mind Emotional Human Potential: Sink or Grow Rich
Harnessing the Mind and Emotions required to make life rich. The easy path comes after the struggle - it is about a state of mind. Awareness must see it, You must Act.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Friends versus People I Know
Defining the nature of a Friend in the midst of a friend conversation can really muddy the waters. There are levels of friendship, and yet, to earn the One is a distinction that most will consider when answering the question.
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tama Kieves | Tama’s Musings | Love Letter from Divine
Tama J. Kieves is a kindred spirit in the world of coaching. I often enjoy reading her email newsletters and this one received today is one of those rare beauties that I’m delighted to share with my readers.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
One Can Connect | Social Media Engagemenet | Sweat Equity
The new world of marketing has begun, and while you can sell, your integrity of purpose, service, and value will be carefully observed by the very people you want to attract and who have the ability to influence the many. Be ready to put in the sweat equity.
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Insights & Skills Enable Social Media Development
You can follow along with this other natural path for those interested in using technology and the Internet to have their voices heard, or their business and services made more accessible.
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Lonely Man Searches for Woman | How to Get Laid
"lonely the man searches for the woman" was the search phrase that brought someone to my site. I googled it myself and went through 15 pages of search results without finding a link to my site. How lonely is that? Even before searching how far into the search results, I felt inspired to write some observations for the lonely man.
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
You are the Sun | You are the Solar System | You are God
Just some fun and entertaining thoughts that can also challenge some of your most cherished beliefs. Sleep well.
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Achievements| StrataXL | Valerie Arntzen, Assemblage Artist
StrataXL | LiveInStrathcona | LiveinCommercialDrive | LivinginMountPleasant | XLSuite
My work affords me little time to find a singular groove to get comfortable with. I bounce around from assignment to assignment, and brush-fire to brush-fire, when and as required.
We're a small start-up, and being conscious of each others' strengths and weaknesses, we know how to support each other to get the job done. Even then, balls get dropped. Every time we experience these bumps in the road, we also find better ways to do things.
Where our development project is concerned, this has been a particular bonus as there have been significant improvements to some of the processes, usability, and functionality in the back-end, as well as re-publication manipulation. When wanting to create traffic, generate interest, and respect Internet publishing, we also want creative control in the greatest tradition of fair-play.
We give what is due, we give credit to contributors, we help promote their rankings and sites relevancy, and we endeavour to offer a valuable community resource with dynamic and interesting content. Getting people to a site is one thing, but more and more people are choosing homes in various online properties. RSS baby, that and Social Media, that's the way to go.
One of my favourite accomplishments this week, is the next topic, Valerie Arntzen. A feature profile I was inspired to create after meeting her during the Eastside Culture Crawl.
Valerie Arntzen, Assemblage Artist | Eastside Culture Crawl Executive Director
Working on developing content for the LiveIn sites entailed familiarization with neighbourhoods. There are specific quirks, traditions, events, and lots of things about communities that are noteworthy. Strathcona happens to be home of the Eastside Culture Crawl, and Valerie Arntzen happens to be the Executive Director for the past decade or more (I think).
Visiting her to write a piece on the upcoming event, Eastside Culture Crawl, I visited her studio. I'm a very curious sort so I went off topic frequently as I was overwhelmed with fascination at the things in her studio, the life she has lived, the work she has done, the man she is married to, the studio she occupies, and so on. Fascinating woman, fascinating people - her and her husband, Arnt Arntzen.
The other thing to note is that she is a strong voice for the Arts Community here in Vancouver - Strathcona in particular and the entire Eastside area defined by the Eastside Culture Crawl. The Artists are a main force behind the increasing value and popularity of Strathcona as a place to live. Of course, real estate in Vancouver has sky-rocketed all over as well. This gentrification process was inevitable. And it isn't this that really irks the community and the affected artists pursuing their expensive craftsmanship in private toil on modest incomes until they reach their break-through. No, it is the lack of city policy that creates win-win scenarios for urban development.
A property owner is entitled to seek application for redevelopment. Existing long-term tenants have a right to express a concern. A city would be wise to seek the right to protect cultural traditions and events that have created a positive image for the city, the neighbourhood, and benefits the local economy and livelihoods of many. We're not talking about Yes / No decisions, we're talking about developing solutions that seek inclusion and safeguards for segments of our population who have continually had a long-term positive effect on society, culture, humanity, commerce, and property values.
Ladies and gentleman, that's a personal plug in support of one of Valerie's causes: Saving the Artists in East Vancouver. Visit Arntzen's Profile page and check out her cause, and the Save 901 Main Studios.
If you'd like to get involved in any discussions, visit http://liveinstrathcona.com to Register - it's free and your information stays private. Then you can start or join conversations in the Online Discussion Forum. I really do encourage it. Our voices are needed to rationally discuss how we move forward with our lives in community. Look at the senselessness of actions and lack of understanding and accountability that has otherwise been experienced.
My work affords me little time to find a singular groove to get comfortable with. I bounce around from assignment to assignment, and brush-fire to brush-fire, when and as required.
We're a small start-up, and being conscious of each others' strengths and weaknesses, we know how to support each other to get the job done. Even then, balls get dropped. Every time we experience these bumps in the road, we also find better ways to do things.
Where our development project is concerned, this has been a particular bonus as there have been significant improvements to some of the processes, usability, and functionality in the back-end, as well as re-publication manipulation. When wanting to create traffic, generate interest, and respect Internet publishing, we also want creative control in the greatest tradition of fair-play.
We give what is due, we give credit to contributors, we help promote their rankings and sites relevancy, and we endeavour to offer a valuable community resource with dynamic and interesting content. Getting people to a site is one thing, but more and more people are choosing homes in various online properties. RSS baby, that and Social Media, that's the way to go.
One of my favourite accomplishments this week, is the next topic, Valerie Arntzen. A feature profile I was inspired to create after meeting her during the Eastside Culture Crawl.
Valerie Arntzen, Assemblage Artist | Eastside Culture Crawl Executive Director
Working on developing content for the LiveIn sites entailed familiarization with neighbourhoods. There are specific quirks, traditions, events, and lots of things about communities that are noteworthy. Strathcona happens to be home of the Eastside Culture Crawl, and Valerie Arntzen happens to be the Executive Director for the past decade or more (I think).
Visiting her to write a piece on the upcoming event, Eastside Culture Crawl, I visited her studio. I'm a very curious sort so I went off topic frequently as I was overwhelmed with fascination at the things in her studio, the life she has lived, the work she has done, the man she is married to, the studio she occupies, and so on. Fascinating woman, fascinating people - her and her husband, Arnt Arntzen.
The other thing to note is that she is a strong voice for the Arts Community here in Vancouver - Strathcona in particular and the entire Eastside area defined by the Eastside Culture Crawl. The Artists are a main force behind the increasing value and popularity of Strathcona as a place to live. Of course, real estate in Vancouver has sky-rocketed all over as well. This gentrification process was inevitable. And it isn't this that really irks the community and the affected artists pursuing their expensive craftsmanship in private toil on modest incomes until they reach their break-through. No, it is the lack of city policy that creates win-win scenarios for urban development.
A property owner is entitled to seek application for redevelopment. Existing long-term tenants have a right to express a concern. A city would be wise to seek the right to protect cultural traditions and events that have created a positive image for the city, the neighbourhood, and benefits the local economy and livelihoods of many. We're not talking about Yes / No decisions, we're talking about developing solutions that seek inclusion and safeguards for segments of our population who have continually had a long-term positive effect on society, culture, humanity, commerce, and property values.
Ladies and gentleman, that's a personal plug in support of one of Valerie's causes: Saving the Artists in East Vancouver. Visit Arntzen's Profile page and check out her cause, and the Save 901 Main Studios.
If you'd like to get involved in any discussions, visit http://liveinstrathcona.com to Register - it's free and your information stays private. Then you can start or join conversations in the Online Discussion Forum. I really do encourage it. Our voices are needed to rationally discuss how we move forward with our lives in community. Look at the senselessness of actions and lack of understanding and accountability that has otherwise been experienced.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Freedom Promotes Growth | Boundaries Accelerate Focus
If you ever caught a wild creature to keep in a cage, you will have noticed the lack of life and increase of fear in the animal.
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