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If you are a presenter or speaker as I am, you may have learned the value of injecting humor in your presentations. Humor can lighten up your audience, relieve tension, or (as Randy Pausch would say) teach with a “head fake”. So when you take the time to learn about humor, how do you practice?…

It is now time for our young to return to school. For many, you are now sending your children off to Kindergarten, to high school, or to college… for the first time. Do you stop and think about that, every few days, and fret about your “babies” growing up. Dan Weedin is currently blogging about…

If you are like most adults, you are probably very busy. Work, kids, clubs,… work. So how can you manage to do all this and “Blog while Busy”? First let me say, that I certainly don’t blog enough. Like Tom Antion and many others say, blogging is a key component to building your business. But…

What is humor? If you are truly a “funny guy” or invest much time into studying comedians, speakers, and humorists, you can get an audience to laugh loud and long. But for many of us, humor can be incorporated by using the other definition. Humor can be anything that lightens a serious subject. So how…

When I was in high school, I joined the yearbook staff in my senior year. I spent that year learning the techniques used in creating a great yearbook. “Pictures should be closest to the seam” “Text should be placed outbound of pictures.” “White space if present should be left towards the edges.” All of this…

Not long ago, I got sick. Sick enough that I ended up going to the emergency room. As many men know, we don’t go easy. From many men’s point of view, whatever may ail us will certainly get better on its own if we just ignore it long enough. But on this day, ‘ignore therapy’…