Genius Types

Have you ever been a little frustrated with a co-worker and wrote an email to express your concerns; and instead of reading your calm, yet concerned tone, the co-worker read a little more attitude than you intended and snapped of an even more explosive email with three other co-workers and two supervisors CC’d?

When you’re up to your eyeballs in debt, and stuck in a job you hate just to pay the bills, living your passion can seem like something that will never happen.

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of testing the limits of self-sufficiency. In fact, one of my favorite books is Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer.

Back in my younger days my buddies and I used to play a lot of golf. There was a tucked away course that we loved because it was cheap, laid back, and had very little traffic; great for us because we weren’t exactly your well-dressed, upstanding, country club types. We were barely in our twenties [...]

Have you noticed how hostile interpersonal communication has become? Back in the era of manners, people disagreed, but did so on a foundation of respect. Today it’s okay to attack, defame, and belittle anyone who doesn’t agree with you on a foundation of snarkiness. Everywhere you look, people are tearing each other’s heads off with [...]

I’m sorry, I just woke up and I’m a little tired. I’m not usually like this. I can do much better. This piece is just a rough draft. I’m a writer, I mean, I want to be a writer… well, I guess we all have dreams. I don’t want to sound too self-centered until I [...]

My grandpa loves to take his grandchildren fishing. Some of my greatest memories are on the boat with him. As a kid I tended to get myself into some sticky situations; my line and lure would often get tangled everywhere and anywhere. Sometimes my lure would wrap around his and start flopping around in the [...]

Are you the kind of person who waits until the needle on your gas gauge is below “E” to fill up the tank? Have you ever pushed it so far you ran out of gas? When you add up the cost of time, energy, missed appointments, and the extra gas can you didn’t need; was [...]

What is the difference between being good at what you do and being great? In this highly competitive world, it is not enough just to be prepared. Whether you are a bartender, business owner, athlete, or nine-to-fiver, you need more than just training and knowledge to be the best. Rise to the Top Some people [...]

The eighty/twenty rule states that in most situations, eighty percent of the results stem from twenty percent of the activity. The rule is often credited to Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian Economist in the early 1900’s, who observed that in most countries eighty percent of the wealth was controlled by twenty percent of the people. Today, [...]