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A True Legacy: Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture

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Randy Pausch - Last Lecture

I have been mesmerized with the Randy Pausch story since the first time I watched the unforgettable Last Lecture he delivered at Carnegie Melon University. There is only so much of Randy’s story that you can read before you have to stop and walk away and then force yourself to either promptly forget it all or tell yourself he is just a character out of very sad fiction because this story cannot simply be real.

How can a human being so heavily vested in life, when faced with the fast-approaching grip of death, continue to his last dying minutes to show care and concern for everyone around him, and keep up the spirits that Randy did to the very end? [Read more…] about A True Legacy: Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture

Gary Vaynerchuck Spells it Out in “Thank You Economy”

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Gary Vaynerchuck

The power of the human connection.
The importance of building valuable relationships.
The revolution in ways of interacting in today’s awesome technology.

These have been the forefront of my mind recently after reading one awesome book by mastermind of this new economy, Gary Vaynerchuck. No matter what is said about Gary from one extreme to another, I am crazy about him. It takes only watching him on stage (my favorite piece by him) once to fall in love and I don’t mean a sexual romantic love. I mean loving another human being and thanking the heavens above for his existence. [Read more…] about Gary Vaynerchuck Spells it Out in “Thank You Economy”

Self-Publishing to the Kindle: A Book on Motivation

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Kindle Cover

The Backstory

“Fail, fail really big and have the courage to stick around to make them wonder why you are smiling. That’s true greatness to me!”
The character of Claire from the movie “Elizabethtown”

If it weren’t for the courage of many to aspire for higher ground, we would be deprived of a great many things in this world. I shudder to imagine even a fraction of it. I am certain that time alone does not equal progress. Centuries may come to pass but that by itself does not translate to any remarkable progress for mankind. Instead, it is thanks to true courage put forth by men and women who have come generations before us and who left us their life’s work and legacy that we live in the world as we know it today. [Read more…] about Self-Publishing to the Kindle: A Book on Motivation

Scott Ginsberg: “How To Be That Guy”

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How to create a personal brand that’s so UNFORGETTABLE, it actually MAGNETIZES more business to you.
Scott Ginsberg

Different people inspire us to do different things. Sometimes intentionally and sometimes accidentally.

Or else why would we expand our inner circle, widen our network horizons and continuously seek the human connection throughout our lives. In the case of Scott Ginsberg, all my encounters – thanks to our LinkedIn connection – with him have inspired me to do three very specific things in large volumes: read, write, speak, and repeat the cycle. Over and over and over again. [Read more…] about Scott Ginsberg: “How To Be That Guy”

Michelle Moran: “Madame Tussaud”

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Madame Tussaud book by Michelle Moran

Good heavens, I have seriously fallen out of my reading habit. I used to read one or two books a month and now I find my mind far too preoccupied to read half as frequently. A tad bit ironic how I had to leave the corporate world to come to understand the real meaning of work, sweat and labor and no, I wouldn’t trade it for a million shining jewels but alas, it is high time to get back into reading.

Are you reading enough? I don’t mean news articles, blog posts, or the stuff in that Inbox. I mean real solid books — or virtual ones that come on your iPhone, Kindle (loved reading Dumas on the Kindle) or iPad or favorite electronic gadget. Books with a beginning, middle and an end. Books that have always been the basis of all education and knowledge, among other things. [Read more…] about Michelle Moran: “Madame Tussaud”

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