12 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Summer Goal #8: Stop Trying To Please Everybody And Just Live My Life

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
This is the biggest challenge out of everything I’ve written over the past eight days. I always take on way too many projects and try to do way too many things for way too many people. [...]

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11 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Summer Goal #7: Be More Authentic

We all do and say things that don’t match up with how we say we are personality-wise. Some call it being two-faced. Others call it not being authentic. Either way, it’s not the right thing to do. We’ve all talked behind someone else’s back, even if sometimes it’s not intentional. I’m not horrible at it [...]

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10 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Summer Goal #6: Change My Ways Of Thinking

Life is what you make of it. The old saying that life is 10% what happens and 90% what you do about it is spot on. I’ve always thought of myself as a glass-half-full kind of person, but I need to do better. In order to implement all of the self-improvement plans I’ve blogged about [...]

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09 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Summer Goal #5: Finish DowntownShortPump.com

Almost four years ago, I purchased the domain name www.downtownshortpump.com. It was a site owned by the developer of the Downtown Short Pump complex with Barnes & Noble and Regal Cinemas. They used it as promotion for their shopping center and etched it into two huge signs at the busiest intersection in Henrico County (West [...]

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08 June 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Summer Goal #4: Meet Some New People

I’ve been stuck in a bubble slash rut for way too long. Why? Simply put, I stay in my comfort zone (as I wrote about already). I’ve been okay with the status quo in terms of friends and not meeting many new people. Sure, it’s all about quality, not quantity, but I could do better [...]

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