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2011 – These Go To 11

Tweet During a drive with @chocov to the ranch, we were recapping our year. Travel, friends and adventures filled 2011. Then Lydia Leavitt whipped up a post about 2011 and I had to do the same. Let’s get started! January – Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas – Sarah comes to Texas February – San [...]

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Making Homemade Pasta | Photo Essay

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Chevy Mancation – Adventures in a 3/4 Ton Silverado

Tweet When you get a call from Chevy asking if you want a 3/4 ton Silverado 4×4 for a week for you and a buddy, the only answer you can give is “absolutely!” (expletives excluded) That’s exactly what happened. My pal, Bobby Freeman, and I took the adventure seriously. We packed rifles, fishing rods, cameras [...]

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Wild at Heart Boot Camp – Hawaii

Tweet Life continues to prove to be anything but stable. 2010 was a very difficult year for me and produced a dramatic transition in my life. In October 2010, I was introduced to John Eldredge’s book, Wild at Heart, by my friend and pastor, Kevin Joyce. Eldredge, with support of modern movies such as Gladiator [...]

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The Humanity of a Marathon – San Antonio Rock N Roll Marathon

Tweet On Sunday I experienced humanity in a way that I never had before by attending the Rock ‘n’ Roll San Antonio Marathon and Half-Marathon. The race was a great equalizer. The distance of the course doesn’t care about your age, race, health or anything else. As I stood at the finish line watching the [...]

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Perfection Paralysis

Tweet High achievers can get caught up in the perfection of their work.  ”I don’t want to put my name on it unless it’s perfect.”  Sound familiar?  I’ve said it too.  It’s easy to get paralyzed by perfection.  You need the words to be just a little better in this email or you need the [...]

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Rerouting Your Life | Interview with Dave Peckens

Tweet I’m a lucky guy.  People contact me regularly because they need someone to talk to about changing jobs.  These are people from all walks of life – older, younger, educated and not, those with “dream jobs” and those looking for a better life.  We sit down either face-to-face, via phone or Skype and talk [...]

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‘Best Seller’ Marketing Team Winick & Whitlock To Help Authors Build a Platform

Tweet Peter Winick is a friend of mine. I met him a few years back in Vegas when he was working with Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back (amazon affiliate links). Thankfully, he and I have been able to keep in contact. He’s worked with other incredible authors and [...]

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Sprint | Blaze Across America with 4G Contest – HTC EVO

Sprint launched a 4G contest to win an android powered HTC EVO smartphone. Here’s my contest entry.

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SXSW 2010 – DONE!

Tweet Well, @alanweinkrantz and I survived SXSW 2010 and produced an astounding 55 posts between us over the course of a week.  It was fun, exciting, exhausting and there are stories I won’t write down.  Interested in recapping some of the fun, such as interviews with internet famous folks like Sloane Berrent (@sloane), Ramon De [...]

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