Over the centuries, experts have categorized personalities according to a wide variety of systems. One of the more recent (and useful) of these is the unlikely but surprisingly effective “True Colors” system. Though it has only four divisions, and you’d think that’s not enough to cover the seemingly endless varieties of human behavior, many professionals [...]
Below is a note I recently sent out to a bunch of my friends and acquaintances regarding how they can slow the growth of spam in their email inbox. Although it’s off-topic, I’m sharing it because you may find it useful to know what kind of people are out there manipulating and taking advantage of [...]
In line with saying ‘yes’ to virtually any realistic request or suggestion, I agreed to play Santa Clause to a group of 30 Japanese pre-school kids here in Thailand. Many of these children were born here, to parents who are either retired Japanese who have started new families abroad, or who work for a Japanese [...]
Maybe you’ve seen kids growing up in the same family, and yet, despite having virtually identical influences, they’re as different as chalk and cheese. This is so common it shouldn’t even surprise us any more, and yet I still hear folks remarking on it. Somehow such folks seem to expect kids to be cookie-cuttered out [...]
As of today, I’m no longer using 1ShoppingCart, the company that has managed my mailing list for the past 5 years or so. Why? I don’t use most of their (slightly expensive) services, so it’s basically too much tool for the job. What This Means for You I first announced this change more than a [...]
The study of personality types is fascinating territory, especially when we start learning to use the way different types interact with each other. For example, have you ever felt that someone you know – perhaps your partner – can sometimes act uncomfortably clingy or maybe just too damn helpful? Maybe they’re not really. Maybe they’re [...]
Last month, I announced a contest to name a new website I was planning as a tribute to my recently departed Mom, Lucile I. Burke, and her poetry. And We Have a Winner LinesFromTheHeart.com – a name suggested by Virginia. Actually, a lot of good names were submitted, and it was hard picking just one. [...]
In our mastermind phone meeting this morning, one of the members shared with us a story about seeds that I figure you’ll appreciate just as much as I did. Yesterday her phone rang and when she picked it up, a voice she didn’t recognize asked if her name was Susan Minarik. When she admitted that [...]
It’s fairly common for people to have slightly different definitions for ordinary, everyday words. If I say “trees,” I may picture towering redwoods, while you, coming from a totally different background, may be thinking of an orchard full of dwarf apple trees. Or maybe you tell me that an event will be casual dress, meaning [...]
Since I’m feeling sorta off-topic today, I thought I’d share with you a few meaningless factoids I ran across… for whatever they’re worth. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers. (And the other 50% are their 40 year old first-cousins?) Einstein still couldn’t speak fluently at [...]
