Getting Ready for World Travel with Joseph

July 11, 2011

I thought it would be cool to sit down and talk with my youngest son Joseph about our plans to move to Indonesia for an extended period of time.  We’ve talked with the kids a bit about flying in a plane, living with Oma and Opa (Grandma and Grandpa) and the different kinds of food [...]

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Independence Day

July 4, 2011

Happy 4th of July!  Today we Americans celebrate freedom and independence.  It was back in 1776 that America declared its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain by adopting the Declaration of Independence.  Today many of us will celebrate with parades, fireworks, barbeques, picnics, concerts, baseball games and beer.  There is nothing more American than [...]

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Life Can Change Quickly

July 1, 2011

This was a difficult post to write mainly because it forced me to confront a few personal demons.  But I think when we travel through the fire we emerge a changed and often better person. There are events in our lives that have the ability to profoundly affect us, shape and mold us.  How that [...]

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Fear Buster Episode 1 – Mark Powers

June 23, 2011

This post is an interview with my good friend Mark Powers and is part of a Fear Buster series I am putting together and will be posting on occasion.  So without further delay here is the interview with Mark Powers, our first Fear Buster! Mark, thanks for taking the time today.  One of the things [...]

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Rock Your Life Sale

June 20, 2011

Today’s post is short and sweet.  Late last year I brought to your attention a great deal on business-niche products from Only72.com.  I got in on that deal and I have to say that going through all the materials, while overwhelming at first, really helped me get a better idea on where I wanted my [...]

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A Father’s Wish

June 19, 2011

Happy Father’s Day to all Dad’s out there.  As I celebrate the day with my kids I can’t help but think about what it means to be a father.  I remember how scared and confused I was when my wife told me she was pregnant.  We had been married for a year at the time [...]

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Dear Naysayer

June 16, 2011

Dear Naysayer, First, I don’t want to come off sounding like I am condemning you and your opinions because honestly I really do appreciate your thoughts and your concerns because I know you only care.  And none of what I am about to say is meant to be disrespectful, it’s just that you’ve given me [...]

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What I Learned at the World Domination Summit

June 9, 2011

  This past weekend I attended the World Domination Summit in Portland Oregon.  I didn’t really know what to expect only that there were going to be some incredible people there that I was really looking forward to meeting.  The event exceeded anything I could have imagined and Chris Guillebeau and all the rest of [...]

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World Domination Summit

May 31, 2011

On Friday I’ll be hitting the road for a 2 hour journey north to Portland and the World Domination Summit.  When I first heard about WDS many months ago I knew I had to go.  I’m a big fan of the work that Chris Guillebeau does and figured that if he were putting together an [...]

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Shredding & Burning the Past

May 31, 2011

It’s Memorial Day and what better way to celebrate than to dig up old memories and burn them.  What am I talking about?  I just spent the weekend shredding and then burning over 15 years of miscellaneous paperwork that has been stacked up around the house in numerous boxes. This is just stage 1 of [...]

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