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I’ve been reading poetry lately and am distressed by how disconnected the poets I’m reading seem to be. (I originally wrote the word ‘are’ as opposed to ‘seem to be,’ because, frankly, I know they are, that they don’t just seem to be.  The problem I think is that you probably don’t know that they are, as opposed to seem to be, and, possibly don’t even know or care that they seem...

It is thought that writers think through what they are about to write, before they write it, or perhaps better said, in order to write it.  That there is a moving logic to the practice of writing, or should be. And I am sure some writers do. But, for the life of me, I have never been able to do that very well. And the reason I suppose I haven’t (and why, therefore - and perhaps - my writing...

There are three forms energy takes as it moves through our lives.  The first is Prime Energy.  It has a direction outside of us from inside of us.  The second is Secondary Energy.  It has a direction inside of us from outside of us.  The third is Trinary Energy.  It has a direction around us, but never inside of us.  It is also called  Passive Energy.  Watch the action of energy as it moves...

That’s what has been happening over the past several years, but even more decisively over the past year, as Greece, Spain, Italy, the U.K., Ireland, yes, even France and Germany, tell you that something seriously deficient in the thinking class has appeared on the face of the earth, whole hog plus the postage. Deficient?  Yes, absolutely deficient.  Which means a big hole growing even bigger,...

One of the ongoing arguments that have been made for the past 33 years to my E-Myth message is that systems deaden the imagination.  That systems kill entrepreneurial creativity.  That systems -- a script, a piece of software, whatever -- kill the innovation that is so critical to the development of an extraordinary company. Of course, this argument is always made by someone who either has never...

And what about you?  How many ways do YOU find to avoid the obvious?  The obvious being that your business is your product, your only product, the product every single entrepreneur has invented to distinguish himself or herself in the world. Like Starbucks is.  Or McDonald’s.  Or Apple.  Or Walmart. I’ve got Howard Schultz’ book, ONWARD, on my desk, and have been dipping into it on and off. ...

Working On It By Michael E. Gerber   Just back from a rather hectic trip, to Mexico City, to Los Angeles, to Salt Lake City, to Washington D.C., to speak to hundreds and even thousands of individuals working in their businesses, working in their lives, hoping, all of them, for something much better, feeling, a great many of them, that they’re not doing too well. And how about...