Business, Life Skills

Licensed to Fail

In order to get your license to succeed, you must first get your license to fail from an accredited school of hard knocks. I used to look at my seemingly endless streams of failures, false starts, half successes and extrinsic accomplisments as ‘bad things’.  I considered them all proof that I was unable to succeed and even that perhaps God…

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Coffee, Life Skills

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee, Dang it!

There are some of you out there who just don’t seem to get it.  You either say you don’t like coffee or you drink bad coffee – and both of these illnesses need to be cured quickly before it spreads to other innocent victims. This week, in the office lunchroom, I was privy to hear the following statement made: “That’s…

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Life Skills, Technology

The Secret Weapon to Beat the Robots

The robots are coming! The robots are coming!  They’re everywhere.  They’re coming for your job, too.  You can beat them and here is how. I read the title of a blog post this morning called, “How to Make Yourself Irreplaceable at Work” and the title intrigued me greatly. I started thinking about how robots could replace pretty much any job…

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