Everybody has a story. You have one. I have one. And we want someone to listen to our story. So we try to tell it – but nobody’s listening. They’re busy telling their own story. I’m sitting in seat 8B on a 2-hour flight from Portland to Ontario, California. Sometimes on a plane, I read; […]
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The Value of Clear Expectations
Someone said, “There are no new ideas . . . only new combinations of old ideas.” That’s probably true. Any idea we come up with didn’t come from nowhere. It came from all the ideas, experiences and thoughts we’ve tucked away in our minds. When we make an unexpected combination of two old ideas, we […]
Why Kids Draw Big Nostrils
Have you ever noticed that whenever little kids draw adults, they usually include big nostrils? There’s a reason for that. Think about a kid’s perspective. When they’re about three feet tall, and they look up an adult that’s five or six feet tall . . . what do they see? Nostrils. Big nostrils. When they’re […]