Almost running a marathon is worthless.
Almost traveling the World actually means you haven’t left your couch in months.
Almost going on a diet means nothing, actually, it means you found a better reason not to go on the diet. Effectively worthless.
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13 Ideas on Being ‘Cool’
When you are cool you can get away with a lot. It’s difficult to become “cool” most of the time it’s engrained in employees/owners/companies from the very start. Being “cool” can be profitable just ask Threadless, 22 Fresh or Vitamin Water. Here are a few ideas on being “cool”.
-It’s a culture.
-It’s being different and sticking to your guns.
-It’s pissing some people off to make another group happy.
-It’s that moment when you are unsure if you should do something or not, and you do it anyway.
-It’s sticking your neck out there knowing full well you may be ridiculed.
-It’s not listening to the nay sayers, they aren’t the cool ones.
-It’s making other people happy.
-It’s changing the game a bit.
-It’s tweaking the norm to make it more enjoyable.
-It’s taking a seemingly regular event and making it irregular.
-It’s creating a semantic marker in your audience’s mind.
-It’s turning the mundane, menial task into an enjoyable thought provoking experience
-It’s making me smile when I unsubscribe from your e-mail campaign (Hat tip to Groupon for inspiring this post, I unsubscribed from Groupon Vancouver today, in doing so I stumble upon the best experience I Continue Reading
What we take for granted
Helping out at Regina’s Canada Day in Wascana Park I met a young gentlemen who was volunteering for the day. Blain, a quick-whited kid, just a bit younger than myself, had an adorable dog named Dewey with him at all times.
Just after sunset in the park, a man rushed over to Blain and I, he had a severe problem on his hands. Here is how the he started the conversation, “I have to go to the washroom but when you close the outhouse door you can’t see anything in there and the Legislative building is locked, I need to go to the washroom, what should I do?!?” Without missing a beat in a condescending tone Blain snapped, “well I could guild you!” Trying as hard as I could not to laugh at what just occurred in front of me, I helped this guy explore his washrooms options, apologized to him for not having lit outhouses, and he went on his way. It was a very interesting moment for me.
You see, Blain is blind but that doesn’t really stop him from doing anything. He can golf, get to and from places on his own (via talking GPS device), Continue Reading
University of the Future
In University I took Business, when I began six years ago there were mandatory courses and there are still mandatory courses. My problem isn’t with having classes mandatory but the fact that the courses I had to take six years ago are still the same courses new students have to take today. Recently I discovered that the Business faculty does a curriculum review every five years, in a World where information changes daily you’d think the institution that is responsible for our “brilliant” business minds would adapt. They don’t.
Instead of complaining about how I think the University should be ran, lets start small and brain storm the first five classes any student should have to take. As of now, in your first year of almost any degree you must take psychology, a math, english, a social science and computer science (give or take a class or two this is what first years are forced to take). What if those were changed to a different five? A better, more relevant five?
We go to University to get jobs in the real World, shouldn’t the real World have a say in what we learn? How about we vote on it, alumni Continue Reading
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