Salute to our neighbors to the north! I'm asking a favor. Do you think we can borrow her for a while? We can sure use her as president of the US. Can you just imagine  her in IM business? Please watch this video. You will be so inspired. http://www.wimp.com/citymayor/ Enjoy!  

Guys, I did a Mr. Miyagi thing yesterday. Do you remember  The Karate Kid, when Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi) wanted to teach Ralph Macchio (Karate kid) how to focus his energy by polishing the car? He wanted the Karate kid to throw himself into a repetitive set of actions, a balanced rhythm, with the practical side benefit of a nicely polished car.  Mr. Miyagi was giving his student practice in an exercise that would benefit him in karate. I don't know anything about karate, but I got it a

Straight from Google. Thought this would be of interest to you. #pagerank Q: My site's PageRank has gone up / gone down / not changed in months! A: Don't worry. In fact, don't bother thinking about it. We only update the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year; this is our respectful hint for you to worry less about PageRank, which is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked. PageRank is an easy metric to focus on, but just because

Google Page Rank is important and I let mine slip. Totally my own fault. Need more back links. Slap across my face, I know better. Ugh! Dumb move, Joan! The more quality links a web page has, the higher the Page Rank will be, therefore you can increase Page Rank by gaining more quality links. This is why getting those articles out to directories with high rankings is important. Also blogs and forums help. Also helps to add content to your site. Links from related websites helps too. Now here's

Michael is one of my best friends. He's very bright and sophisticated in some ways, and a total idiot in others. Can you tell we're great friends? He has definite ideas, some of them I really don't like, and he has his own unique design sense, which is completely opposite my own sensibility. He is Felix Ungar and John Waters rolled into one, with a sense of the ridiculous to the point of being surreal. He argues with me all the time about just about everything. Shopping with him is hell. Having

Care to join me in a cup of Starbuck's Gold Coast? How about a slice of that famous lemon pound cake? That's my weakness. If you haven't tried it yet, do it post haste. You won't regret it. I have a few insights to share. These will not be news to you. I think these ideas are so important to all of us who are breaking ground on unfamilar turf , that they bear restating anywhere and everywhere. "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how,

I woke up this morning so happy.  Why?  Because an idea that has been ruminating in my brain for some time has finally gelled. I'm ready to pounce. You feel it when it's right. It's going to take a massive effort from me and that's more than OK. I am that excited. Not even thinking about remuneration. This is a labor of love, but I also feel confident people are going to love it too. In my experience, my best work has always happened when I don't care about anything but doing the work

Yes, everything: movie stars, movies, musicians, rock stars, politicians, television shows, artists, heck, even toilet paper! Have you seen pictures of Marilyn Monroe before they packaged her? Lovely, but she wasn't Marilyn Monroe yet. Look at what was created with just some vision and know how.                  "Don't go looking for atmosphere, bring it with you" Innocent sounding, but given the source, i

That's a quote from Miles Davis. I'm sharing a nice tip with you today. Hope you take advantage of it. It'll really help you to become your most creative self. I listen to what causes pain to many of my fellow members here. So much of what you write about represents stumbling blocks that I have experienced in the past and/or currently. I know all about procrastination, unfortunately. To be fair, sometimes procrastination is part of the creative process in which you need to free your brain of con

I believe that each of us is born with multiple talents that are useful to us in life. But there is one particular talent, the thing that we really excel at using, which  probably represents our purpose and definitely our core strength. That is what you are meant to do. No one needs to tell you what it is, either. You just know. I am in awe of my accountant.  He is brilliant at what he does,  has a mind like a computer. Thank God for him. Left up to me, my tax returns would never