Aim For Excellence

In our last post we talked about starting great and then making it better. The idea is to put aside perfection and instead choose something great to start with. Once you are started on the path, make improvements along the way. Here is a simple diagram to show the direction that leads to success.

If [...]

Start With Great And Make It Better

I’ve had the pleasure of reading a pre-release copy of Michael Port’s upcoming new book, Beyond Booked Solid. This book is a treasure trove of ideas for anyone thinking about starting or improving a small business. While the book has been a great read, I stumbled upon a revolutionary concept in one of the chapters [...]

A Gift Of Audio Learning For Your Kids

I love my iPod. I’ve had numerous models over the last few years and each one of them has filled a unique niche. My video iPod has seen the most duty as my main conduit for audio books. The large capacity and small size of this unit make it ideal for taking audio along in [...]

Is The Internet Down?

I’ve worked as an IT professional for the past 12 years. I’ve seen lots of changes and lots of updates. I used to like updates. Hey… they usually made things better… usually making things load quicker, giving me faster throughput and making things more reliable.

The problem is that most of my time now is [...]

On Blogging Well

One of my favorite books is “On Writing Well“, by William Zinsser. The big takeaway that I get from his book is that… Writing Is Hard. I couldn’t agree more. The longer that I am involved with this online writing thing called blogging the more I realize what Zinsser says is true.
Putting words on [...]

Deluxe Five Minute Flowchart

Back in May of 2006 we published a little desktop utility called The Five minute Flowchart. This business card based printable sheet went on to become one of our most popular utilities and thousands of people have downloaded it.

I have been amazed at the uses people have found for it. From a handy planning [...]