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FINAL THOUGHTS...

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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'” – Eleanor Roosevelt When I began this program a year ago, I jumped in with both feet.   I had wanted this for a very long time, and it was almost as if I had been given a “do-over.”     All I knew was that life had recently thrown me several nasty curveballs, and I felt that going back to graduate school after 15 years was the best way to deal with them.   The thought of graduation, over a year away, seemed forever in the distance, and I had no real plans or ideas of where I was headed or what I wanted to do afterward.   Now, I am one term and one class away from graduation (ten weeks), and I am feeling more terrified than ever.   In essence, I am starting over mid-life and it scares me.   While I believe I finally determine...
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WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN?

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“Put all your eggs in one basket… the handle’s going to break.  Then all you’ve got is scrambled eggs.”  - Nora Roberts  (2010).“Hot Rocks,” p. 183, Penguin Any experienced financial planner worth their salt will tell you never to put all your eggs in one basket.  Sure, the market looks great right now.  But when everything comes back down, and it eventually will, because it always does, you need to have a balanced financial portfolio, so you do not lose everything.  We can apply this same advice to various other examples other than financial planning.  The same can be said about our use of technology and social media too.  It is officially 2020 – the start of a new year and a new generation.   And d igital media is everywhere!   Traditional media such as print newspapers, the yellow pages, local radio stations, and television stations are being replaced by faster, digital mediums that we can acc...
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Ads, Ads, Everywhere!!

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“Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does” – Steuart Henderson Britt As someone with a marketing degree, I was taught years ago there is advertising everywhere.   Literally everywhere! 
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CROWDSOURCING: NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HUMAN GENEROSITY

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“The fellow that can only see the week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd.   But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.”   - Will Rogers The concept of crowdsourcing is not necessarily a new idea.  Although, when many people think about it, they believe it started with social media and the Internet.  Not true.  Actually, the basic concept of crowdsourcing has been around for hundreds of years.  Bloomberg Cities tells the story of how the British government used “crowdsourcing” to resolve their issue regarding navigation at sea in the 1700s.  Obviously, this was just a few years before we had social media.  That being said, people use crowdsourcing campaigns for various reasons today.  Sites like GoFundMe and Kickstarter have been created so innovative, remarkable, genuine, and sometimes deceitful people can change the world.  Or mayb...
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WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS...

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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!   Or does it?    Perhaps an all girls weekend got a little crazy after your eighth shot of tequila.   You and your girls make your way to the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, where you marry a sexy dancer from the Thunder from Down Under show.   To make the occasion even better, an Elvis impersonator officiates the wedding ceremony and your girlfriends are your impromptu bridesmaids/witnesses, snapping pictures with their phones and posting the images to social media faster than you can say, “I do!”   It was a magical night until you wake up the next morning and realize you are lying next to a complete stranger in your hotel room.   It couldn’t possibly get any worse until your mother calls you screaming because she just found out you married a total stranger in Vegas, and it is all over social media.   Oh boy, what have you done? A crazy situation like this might sound a bit extreme, but I am...
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