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Posted on December 30, 2010 by Barry Owen Responding to a challenge by Seth Godin to re-cap the year . . . What did I accomplish in 2010? Seth acknowledges that most folks don't do this exercise . . . or if they do it, they don't give themselves enough credit for all the things they have accompli...
12/30/2010
Posted on December 30, 2010 by Barry Owen I'm reading What Matters Now a book assembled and edited by Seth Godin. Grab yourself a free copy by hitting the link. I chose this book as the first book of my newly formed monthly book Club. It's a collage of single page thoughts from each of 70+ great ...
12/29/2010
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Posted on December 29, 2010 by Barry Owen It's the Sergeant who heroically dives through a hail of gunfire to save one of his soldiers. It's the Fireman who risks life and limb to save a family from a burning house. It's the teacher who spends a few extra minutes with a student during lunch or af...
12/29/2010
Posted on December 29, 2010 by Barry Owen The most powerful tool I believe that we each personally possess is our influence in our local community. Some of the things that come to mind when I think of the importance of being involved in our communities are: - You never know when life might happen...
12/29/2010
Posted on December 28, 2010 by Barry Owen Yesterday, I decided to start a book club to meet the 1st Thursday of every month @ 10 AM. I'm not sure why. It just seemed like a good thing to do I decided the first meeting would be next week which doesn't give folks much time to find, buy, and read th...
12/28/2010
Posted on December 27, 2010 by Barry Owen Good MORNING! Well! THAT was FUN! Christmas day has passed, and Santa was good to us. Here in Nashville, we were treated to the very rare experience of a White Christmas (Only the 8th on the Official record) . . . That "Wintery mix" of ice and snow did so...
12/27/2010
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Posted on December 22, 2010 by Barry Owen Forrest Gump said: "My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Nationwide Insurance has built a cult following around their slogan: "Life comes at you FAST!" Heraclitus of Ephesus (c.535 BC - 475 BC) a...
12/22/2010
Be a dog in the 1st 2 quarters of 2011! Posted on December 21, 2010 by Barry Owen I've seen many predictions about the first half of 2011 . . . and to some degree, I believe that many of them will be accurate as self-fulfilling prophesies . . . but then, that's what the "experts" are paid to do ....
12/21/2010
Posted on December 20, 2010 by Barry Owen Good morning! I wrote a mini-novel this morning . . . In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt wrote that the "highest of all joys" came only from having and raising "many healthy children." Anyone who "deliberately" shunned marriage or who had "a heart so c...
12/20/2010
Your optimism can make you a world class liar Posted on December 18, 2010 by Barry Owen I love eternal optimists. They see the good in everything. Some optimists SO want to see the good that they sometimes imagine (hallucinate) unrealistic fantasies . . . and then fall into the trap of making pro...
12/18/2010
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Stream of consciousness commentary on the real estate industry from the perspective of a Principal Real Estate Broker and Founder of Pareto REalty, LLC in Middlle Tennessee - Also a Career Development Coach with vast Organizational Development/Transformation training and experience - in the industry since 1993