January 2015 Blog Posts (149)

3 Ways to Put the Opinion of Others in Perspective

That which is partial cannot describe the whole. Science and religion are the two tools for human discovery of reality but when these are not appreciated to be in harmony then the end result will be incomplete and unsatisfying to human reason. The atheistic leanings in some anarcho-capitalist circles will ring hollow to those people who have a more inclusive understanding of the workings of the world as…

Income for this Six Months compared to last six months (Target = 200%): 66%

Time spent listening/reading to positive, encouraging, uplifting, instructional material: 30 minutes

Taking part in Dan's "Six Month Challenge"? Come join us in “Dan's 6 Month Challenge Accountability Group”! We’re a group that encourages and helps each other with accountability as we pursue the challenge. Jump in any…

Income for this Six Months compared to last six months (Target = 200%): 66%

Time spent listening/reading to positive, encouraging, uplifting, instructional material: 39 minutes plus podcasts

Taking part in Dan's "Six Month Challenge"? Come join us in “Dan's 6 Month Challenge Accountability Group”! We’re a group that encourages and helps each other with accountability as we pursue the challenge. Jump in any…

I decided to make this video of Positive Affirmations for myself, when I was talking to a friend this week about all the negative self talk that can happen in my “idle brain time.” This typically doesn’t happen when I’m just sitting around, no, instead it creeps up on me while I’m…

Most Americans are saving very little money, if any at all. I know my savings have been harder to come by in recent years. Over the last few years my income was cut almost in half due to several factors. On top of that, we were also paying cash for my wife’s…

Income for this Six Months compared to last six months (Target = 200%): 66%

Time spent listening/reading to positive, encouraging, uplifting, instructional material: 37 minutes

Taking part in Dan's "Six Month Challenge"? Come join us in “Dan's 6 Month Challenge Accountability Group”! We’re a group that encourages and helps each other with accountability as we pursue the challenge. Jump in any…

I designed a "road-map" for my students when they are learning a new piece of music. Students look directly at the music. They don't look at the time signatures, key signatures or…

Since we are in the first quarter of 2015, focus on productivity is still high. Improving productivity energizes our business goals. We set employee productivity as one of our frameworks in making this “the” year.

Workforce dynamics have changed so much that I am still in awe of how many people do collaborative work from all over the globe. This makes it even more critical to establish process and structure to keep an effective workforce.

Below are three tips to keeping a…

AMC’s Mad Men is a fascinating look into a NYC advertising firm in the 1960’s.

That dark, brooding, conniving, out-of-control Don Draper

Don Draper and his brood convince clients to spend beaucoup bucks on campaigns to sway (manipulate?) American…

I was getting ready to head out the door and my son, who was two at the time, said to me, “Daddy, where you going?”

“To work,” I replied.

“Why?”

Photo Credit: ores2k via …

I talked in the last post about how conventionally grown grains are routinely doused with the herbicide Roundup just before harvesting and that this could well be one of the reasons…

Income for this Six Months compared to last six months (Target = 200%): 66%

Time spent listening/reading to positive, encouraging, uplifting, instructional material: 31 minutes

Taking part in Dan's "Six Month Challenge"? Come join us in “Dan's 6 Month Challenge Accountability Group”! We’re a group that encourages and helps each other with accountability as we pursue the challenge. Jump in any…

HOW MANY TIMES have you seen the need to change or the need for an addition or the need for something new…whether a program or a building or a ministry…but somehow it was never realized? It was a good idea, maybe even a great idea, but…that’s all that happened…it was just an idea or a reoccurring thought that never…

Viewing another aspect of entrepreneurial form leads us to reconsider the fact that resource owners and consumers are often passive. They act as if the prices they see are ‘equilibrium’ prices. These errors yield opportunities for profitable activity.

‘Enter the producers!’ since they are never immune from competition. They inevitably and significantly take on the role of entrepreneur;…

A little tough love from dweisscreative.com today, are you ready? I cringe a little bit when I hear someone say this. I value ideas beyond measure and I am sure you have some great ones, but I cringe because it’s not enough.

You have ideas, I have ideas.…