Posts Tagged 'relationships'

Three Life Lessons from Frodo

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I just finished watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy again.  No matter how many times I’ve watched them I’m always surprised at how profound Tolkien was at his understanding of the human condition, our frailties and our strengths.

Lessons I learned this time. (and probably many times before)

1.  Life is about choices.  Those we make and those we have thrust upon us.

2.  Life is about personal sacrifices.  Life is bigger than us and requires that we think of ...

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3 Reasons Your Story is Important to Me

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This post is in response to Chris Brogan’s post and challenge about the importance of story in our lives. 

A few month’s ago when I was at a crossroads in my life I watched a video that posed several questions.  To me the questions were so profound that I wrote them down and have pondered them many times since.  The question are:  What is my calling?;  What if my calling is my story?; and ...

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Humans Are Like Windows

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No I don't mean like "windows to the soul" or like a pane of glass.  I mean like the Windows that we PC users have all come to love and hate.  If you've ever used Windows for any length of time you've experienced the dreaded "blue screen of death".

So, how are humans like Windows you ask?  Great question.  Be honest now, when you get that blue screen (to MS's credit I've ...
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Humans are Analogue

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This is the first in at least a two part series of my analogies of what humans are like (as if we didn't already know).  It's at least two parts, because that is how many ideas I have floating around in my cerebral soup right now.  If one of my two neurons fires between now and when I get finished with the first two, who knows something else might get spawned.

From Wikipedia:  Analogue electronics (or analog in American English) are electronic systems with a continuously variable ...

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