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2011-02-23T22:00:00.000-08:00

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Cool I just loaded a new picture to my GRAVATAR and verified some of my info. Let's see how this works!

Back After All This Time!!

2008-12-04T08:44:00.000-08:00

Hello All!

I got caught up in some Training and Development stuff that I was presenting, writing some new books, and the other things of life. After taking nearly a year off from this blog I revisited it today and still feel as strongly as ever that I need a forum for expressing my thoughts on thinking. This is it! So you should hear more from me on a semi-regular basis. Those who haven't been here before take some time and look around, visit some of my earlyist posts because that will help you get a feel for what this blog is about.

Read my bio and if you want post comments or email me.

Amazingly Easy Looking Yet Very Hard to do!

2007-12-29T17:56:00.000-08:00

What a great idea and demonstration. Join the link mentioned in the video for further guidance on this type of exercise.

Black Belt Magazine

2007-08-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

Black Belt Magazine

Check out this article on speed punching to learn to get there first.

The Future Empire by Robert Greene

2007-05-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

Check out this blog and read it. Note what he says is lacking in America. Is it true? If so we better get busy wanting more life!

New Interactive Site

2007-02-14T21:50:00.000-08:00

Check out this new super cool social networking site!

Brawl Sports | Ultimate fighting and more with Steve Sievert

2007-01-01T20:24:00.000-08:00

As many of you know, I am a mma fighter. I haven't fought professionally. I 42 years old now, but I teach and train mma. I follow the ufc and here's the latest on UFC 66.

Brawl Sports | Ultimate fighting and more with Steve Sievert

Neuromarketing � Neuroscience, Leadership, and Marketing

2006-08-22T16:05:00.000-07:00

Check this site out!

Neuromarketing � Neuroscience, Leadership, and Marketing

Me @ 200 lbs

2006-06-02T13:59:00.000-07:00

Me before dropping back down to my fighting weight of 185.

Robin Williams

2006-05-30T16:59:00.000-07:00

Subject: FW: Robin Williams

>You gotta love Robin Williams... Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with
>the perfect plan . what we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up
>and repeat this message.
>
>Robin William's plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)
>
>I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for
>peace. So, here's one plan.
>
>1.) The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their
>affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Noriega,
>Milosevic and the rest of those 'good ole boys,' We will never "interfere"
>again.
>
>2.) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with
>Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We
>would
>station troops at our borders. No one sneaking through holes in the
>fence.
>
>3.) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and
>leave.
>We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be
>gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of who or where they are.
>France would welcome them.
>
>4.) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days
>unless given a special permit. No one from a terrorist nation would be
>allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide
>here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab
>drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
>
>5.) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If
>they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.
>
>6.) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise.
>This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will
>require
>a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wi! lderness . The caribou will
>have
>to cope for a while.
>
>7.) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel! for
>their oil. If they don't like it, we go some place else. They can go
>somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling
>up the storage sites would be enough.)
>
>8.) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will
>not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain,
>cement
>or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or
>given
>to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
>
>9.) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island some place. We don't
>need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would
>make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
>
>10.) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can
>call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is
>ENGLISH.....learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan.
>
>"The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your poor, your tired,
>your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling,
>'You want a piece of me?'"

My Pain, My Brain - New York Times

2006-05-15T06:17:00.000-07:00

My Pain, My Brain - New York Times

Cool article on new brain scanning technology and the possibilities that arise from it.

Second Day at TQ 05/01/06 - Soapbox (Current) - Soapbox Archives -

2006-05-04T08:03:00.000-07:00

I copied this from the Charliedaniels.com website's soapbox page. BunnyF posted it and I think it is worth spreading around.

Thank you for taking the time to write, it's important that not just this group of people hear you BUT everyone you know needs to hear you.

I want to point out a couple of things for you. 20 Years I have been a Marine, and in 20 years I have done a TON of deployments and missed ALL my kids younger years. During the gulf war there was no such thing as email! or the internet, it was snail mail and a phone call when ever we got to a port and could get to a phone (once a month maybe)

I was at TQ I know exactly what it’s like there, I was all over that base so believe me I know. What I would like to say is please keep the faith, please know your husband is going to come home when it’s the right time, and just like so many others he misses you all very much. Please continue to support him by not letting him know how much you are hurting and missing him. He needs to concentrate on what he is doing and thinking about how his family at home is hurting and missing him will not help him. It’s just a little advice from a guy with 4 kids, a grandbaby, and 200 young Marines.

Yes some do have it a little better then others BUT he has email! And he has a phone! and I’m sure you stay in contact and know what is going on at least 2 to 3 times a week. That is SOOOO much better then we ever had it before, Thank God for technology!!

You stated you did not agree with this mission, well you must agree with it because your way of life is at stake. Let me point out something to you that you may not know. Sorry this is so long but it is very importent to read it, I have bolded the importent things.

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England and America for food and war materials.

The US was in an isolationist, pacifist, mood, and most Americans and Congress wanted nothing to do with the European war, or the Asian war.

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan, and the following day on Germany, which
had not attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had few allies.

France was not an ally, the Vichy government of France aligned with its German occupiers. Germany was not an ally, it was an enemy, and Hitler intended to set up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe. Japan was not an ally, it was intent on owning and controlling all of Asia. Japan and Germany had long-term ideas of invading Canada and Mexico, and then the United States over the north and south borders, after they had settled control of Asia and Europe.

America's allies then were England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and Russia, and that was about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy, except Russia in the east, was already under the Nazi heel.

America was not prepared for war. America had stood down most of its military after WWI and throughout the depression, at the outbreak of WWII there were army units training with broomsticks over their shoulders because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have tanks. And a big chunk of our navy had just been sunk and damaged at Pearl Harbor.

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England that was the property of Belgium and was given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler - actually, Belgium surrendered one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day anyway just to prove they could. Britain had been holding out for two years already in the face of staggering shipping loses and the near-decimation of its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later and turning his attention to Russia, at a time when England was on the verge of collapse in the late summer of 1940.

Russia saved America's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany.

Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow, 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a million soldiers. More than a million.

Had Russia surrendered, then, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire campaign against the Brits, then America, and the Nazis would have won that war.

I say this to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things. And we are at another one.

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world, unless they are prevented from doing so.

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs - they believe that Islam, a radically conservative (definitely not liberal!) form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world, and that all who do not bow to Allah should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel, purge the world of Jews. This is what they say.

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East - for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation today, but it is not yet known which will win - the Inquisition, or the Reformation.

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, and the OPEC oil, and the US, European, and Asian economies, the techno-industrial economies, will be at the mercy of OPEC - not an OPEC dominated by the well-educated and rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis.

You want gas in your car? You want heating oil next winter? You want jobs? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins.

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. We cannot do it nowhere. And we cannot do it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle now at the time and place of our choosing, in Iraq.

Not in New York, not in London, or Paris, or Berlin, but in Iraq, where we did and are doing two very important things.

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.

Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million Iranians.

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq. We have focused the battle. We are killing bad guys there and the ones we get there we won't have to get here, or anywhere else. We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq, which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed.

World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor. It began with the Japanese invasion of China. It was a war for fourteen years before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 - a 17 year war - and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own again .. a 27 year war.

World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP - adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars, WWII cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is roughly what 9/11 cost New York. It has also cost about 2,200 American lives, which is roughly 1/2 of the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning WWII would have been unimaginably greater - a world now dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.

Americans have a short attention span, now, conditioned I suppose by 60 minute TV shows and 2-hour movies in which everything comes out okay.

The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain,and sometimes bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.

The bottom line here is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away on its own. It will not go away if we ignore it.

If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq, then we have an "England" in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East. The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is merely another battle in this ancient and never-ending war. And now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons. Unless we prevent them. Or somebody does.

We have four options

1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.

2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is).

3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America.

4. Or we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe. It will be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier then.

Yes, the Jihadis say that they look forward to an Islamic America. If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.

We can be defeatist peace-activists as anti-war types seem to be, and concede, surrender, to the Jihad, or we can do whatever it takes to win this war against them.

The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes, cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.

Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.

In the 20th century, it was Western democracy vs. communism, and before that Western democracy vs. Nazism, and before that Western democracy vs. German Imperialism. Western democracy won, three times, but it wasn't cheap, fun, nice, easy, or quick. Indeed, the wars against German Imperialism (WWI), Nazi Imperialism (WWII), and communist imperialism (the 40-year Cold War that included the Vietnam Battle, commonly called the Vietnam War, but itself a major battle in a larger war) covered almost the entire century.

The first major war of the 21st Century is the war between Western Judeo/Christian Civilization and Wahhabi Islam. It may last a few more years, or most of this century. It will last until the Wahhabi branch of Islam fades away, or gives up its ambitions for regional and global dominance and Jihad, or until Western Civilization gives in to the Jihad.

It will take time. It will not go with no hitches. This is not TV.

Remember, perspective is everything, and America's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind.

The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany.

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan. World War II resulted in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million people, depending on which estimates you accept.

The US has taken a little more than 2,000 KIA in Iraq. The US took more than 4,000 Killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism. In WWII the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week for four years. Most of the individual battles of WWII lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far.

But the stakes are at least as high . . . a world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).

I do not understand why the American Left does not grasp this. They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis. In America, absolutely, but nowhere else.

300,000 Iraqi bodies in mass graves in Iraq are not our problem? The US population is about twelve times that of Iraq, so let's multiply 300,000 by twelve. What would you think if there were 3,600,000 American bodies in mass graves in America because of George Bush? Would you hope for another country to help liberate America?

"Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate where it's safe, in America.

Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, North Korea, in the places in the world that really need peace activism the most?

The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc. Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy.

If the Jihad wins, it is the death of Liberalism. Everywhere the Jihad wins, it is the death of Liberalism. And American Liberals just don't get it.

Second Day at TQ 05/01/06 - Soapbox (Current) - Soapbox Archives -

Dictionary.com/thinking

2006-04-28T08:26:00.000-07:00

Dictionary.com/thinking

This is a good place to begin any activty or conversation about thinking!

Welcome

2006-04-28T08:22:00.000-07:00

Welcome

This is one of my sites. I just wanted to add it so that you could learn more about me.

TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative

2006-03-24T21:31:00.000-08:00

TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative

I consider myself a conservative liberal, meaning I think we do need a military (conservative). I don't think we ought to invade some other country and slap them just cause they don't play with us (liberal). But if there is any truth to this study maybe I'm more liberal than I thought!

2006-03-24T20:32:00.000-08:00

Re-Imagineering

2006-03-24T20:30:00.000-08:00

Re-Imagineering

Pixar masters web blog

Beyond the Bleep

2006-01-07T21:04:00.000-08:00

Beyond the Bleep

Book and website about the movie, "What the Bleep Do We Know?" As a Christian there were things in the movie I found objectionable, but I LOVED the movie. I think that it said there has to be a God and we can know Him by better by understanding the vastness of His creations.

The Planetary Society

2006-01-07T17:22:00.000-08:00

The Planetary Society

The world's largest space interest group. Where do we go next?

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Toolkit | Neural Gourmet

2006-01-07T16:59:00.000-08:00

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Toolkit Neural Gourmet

Testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments.

Welcome to Somik Raha's Homepage at Stanford

2006-01-07T16:23:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Somik Raha's Homepage at Stanford

This is interesting.

Non-Coercive or Voluntary Societies: Shrinking Indian Talent Pool

2006-01-07T16:13:00.000-08:00

Non-Coercive or Voluntary Societies: Shrinking Indian Talent Pool

Interesting discussions of various topics of interest to the world.

Trivium Pursuit � Blog Archive � A Synopsis of Our Christian Beliefs

2006-01-07T10:32:00.000-08:00

Trivium Pursuit � Blog Archive � A Synopsis of Our Christian Beliefs

This is a good synopsis of the Christian Faith. I like what they say. Also, they have some really good links to teaching logic.

Moderate Musings: Spotlight: Gov. Perry Says Teach Intelligent Design - NYT > Home Page

2006-01-07T07:42:00.000-08:00

Moderate Musings: Spotlight: Gov. Perry Says Teach Intelligent Design - NYT > Home Page

Another voice of reason.

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

2006-01-06T22:01:00.000-08:00

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

Stuff to think about?

The Old Hippie's Groovy Blog

2006-01-06T21:49:00.000-08:00

The Old Hippie's Groovy Blog

Japan's humanoid robots | Better than people | Economist.com

2005-12-28T12:09:00.000-08:00

Japan's robots of the future...Here now and then.

BizSuccessOnline's Subscriber Resource Center

2005-12-22T22:15:00.000-08:00

cool link chock full of useful info.

Changing minds and persuasion -- How we change what others think, believe, feel and do

2005-12-17T15:20:00.000-08:00

Wow! Great, Well Organized Psychology Theory Site! Check it out.

Internet Marketing Gal

2005-12-12T07:08:00.000-08:00

Just what it says.

Elephants in Academia

2005-12-09T20:27:00.000-08:00

Elephants in Academia

Free Advertising Blog

2005-12-09T19:52:00.000-08:00

Advertising Blog.

Understanding the Techie Psyche

2005-11-20T07:40:00.000-08:00

Understanding the Techie Psyche

Thinking Skills

2005-11-20T06:58:00.000-08:00

So, I'm just wanting to get some input. What do you think are the most important thinking skills? I have an article I'll post later about this topic. I'll also publish a list of choices here later.
I just wanted to know without any influence from outside sources (me) influencing your opininon. I;m also conducting this questionairre offline with my students and collegues. I'll post responses later.

out

ScienCentral: Brain Power

2005-09-17T22:20:00.000-07:00

Coolest brain stuff. I've written several college papers on this topic.

ScienCentral: Brain Power

BIOTECH & CREATIVITY / Quadriplegic fitted with brain sensor ushers in cybernetic age

2005-09-17T21:35:00.000-07:00

This links to one of the most interesting things I've ever heard. I have written several college papers on this topic.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/12/05/INDUNCAN05.DTL

KurzweilAI.net

2005-09-11T20:37:00.000-07:00

This is thinking in action.

Michael Williams -- Master of None: About Michael Williams

2005-09-06T23:07:00.000-07:00

Check out this site. It is refreshing.

http://www.mwilliams.info/archives/002744.php

just adding good stuff.

AnAmericanSoldier

2005-08-28T22:48:00.000-07:00

AnAmericanSoldier

BJJFighter.com - the ultimate brazilian jiu-jitsu web site

2005-08-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

Here's a good plan for strength & endurance training. Mix well with martial arts traing for a balanced ability.

http://www.bjjfighter.com/Conditioning/chimchim.html

ODD WEB SITE

2005-07-29T21:47:00.000-07:00

This is perhaps the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

MSDN Home Page

2005-07-29T21:36:00.000-07:00

MSDN Home Page

Enterprise Performance Analysis

2005-07-29T21:33:00.000-07:00

Enterprise Performance Analysis

Home

2005-07-28T00:58:00.000-07:00

This is a link to my primary web site.
Home

Bizware Magic's Web Marketing Tools, RSS List Building and Lead Capture Programs

2005-07-26T06:08:00.000-07:00

Another fine marketing article by bizwaremagic.

Bizware Magic's Web Marketing Tools, RSS List Building and Lead Capture Programs

lawrie malen -: you are invited : -

2005-07-25T10:56:00.000-07:00

lawrie malen -: you are invited : -

Telegraph | News

2005-07-25T10:40:00.000-07:00

Human Cloning
Telegraph | News

Hasta la Vista, Bill (and BOFH-style inventory disposal) | Computerworld Blogs

2005-07-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

Hasta la Vista, Bill (and BOFH-style inventory disposal) | Computerworld Blogs

Basics

2005-07-16T06:00:00.000-07:00

Good merge of Maslow and reality.
Basics

Hypnotic Marketing Tips

2005-07-16T05:58:00.000-07:00

Hypnotic Marketing Tips

Blogthings

2005-07-08T23:51:00.000-07:00

Blogthings

thinking style

2005-07-08T23:48:00.000-07:00

Your Dominant Thinking Style:

Visioning
You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights.You focus on how things should be - even if you haven't worked out the details.
An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path.You tend to give others long-term direction and momentum.

Your Secondary Thinking Style:

Experimenting
You're all about looking at the facts, and you could always use more of them.You see life as your lab - and you're always trying out new things, people, and ideas.
The master of mix and match, you're always coming up with unique combinations.You are good at getting a group to reach consensus.

What's" Your Thinking Style?

Jedi

2005-07-08T21:46:00.000-07:00

Obi-Wan Kenobi
You scored 73% wisdom, 42% aggression, 65% power, and 64% morality!

You are one of the wisest Jedi of them all, and have had a very eventful career full of failures and successes. You are a skilled fighter, having defeated many powerful opponents in your time. You are not overly aggressive, though. You are more reserved and collected. Your sense of morality is without question, and you are a model Jedi.

Builder.com - Beyond the code

2005-07-06T11:03:00.000-07:00

Cool Web Design Stuff
Builder.com - Beyond the code

Find Your Dream Career: Short Term Job Adventures

2005-07-04T07:29:00.000-07:00

WOW! Anybody looking for work? Check these opyions out!
Find Your Dream Career: Short Term Job Adventures

Jim Edwards' "I Gotta Tell You" Blog

2005-06-29T15:11:00.000-07:00

Are mp3's illegal?

Jim Edwards' "I Gotta Tell You" Blog

Learning Library | Learn about Learning with Articles on Education and E-Learning

2005-06-23T23:00:00.000-07:00

Learning Library

Learning Library | Learn about Learning with Articles on Education and E-Learning

Learning Library | Great Thinkers | What Makes a Great Thinker?

2005-06-23T22:55:00.000-07:00

It's a good read on great tyhinking!

Learning Library | Great Thinkers | What Makes a Great Thinker?

Cory Rudl Out the way he came in.

2005-06-03T12:54:00.000-07:00

Cory Rudl died in a cer crash in La Jolla CA at 34 years of age. I didn't know Cory but I have studied some of his things and they were very good. My sympathies go out to his new family. If you would like more information on this visit these links.

Here are some links to the news. [+] http://www.nbc4.tv/news/4562562/detail.html With photos of the car [+] http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-speedway3jun03,1,3734695.story?coll=la-news-state

And his site is located here. www.MarketingTips.com

Spend some time telling those you love that you do today. God bless.

Ethan Hale
www.highperformanceconsultants.com
coach@highperformanceconsultants.com

Systems Thinking

2005-05-28T08:12:00.000-07:00

Systems Thinking

Democrats Block Independence Day Celebration - ThinkingAgain.com

2005-05-28T07:52:00.000-07:00

Read this!

Democrats Block Independence Day Celebration - ThinkingAgain.com

Axon Idea Processor - Design Concepts

2005-05-27T18:02:00.000-07:00

This is the GREATEST on-line thinking tool in existence. If you want to learn new ways to seek solutions and create ideas, this is by far the top of the list tool!

Axon Idea Processor - Design Concepts

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

2005-05-09T09:55:00.000-07:00

This site educates for liberty. What a great concept!

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

www.worldgame.org

2005-04-21T23:10:00.000-07:00

How would you run the world?

www.worldgame.org

Motion Induced Blindness

2005-04-20T08:01:00.000-07:00

This is an interesting activity that creates an illusion in your mind.

Motion Induced Blindness

del.icio.us/tag/mind

2005-04-20T05:36:00.000-07:00

Links to several mind/brain related sites.
del.icio.us/tag/mind

Brain Power Club brought to you by MSO Worldwide

2005-04-19T19:47:00.000-07:00

Brain Power Club brought to you by MSO Worldwide

MindZine - News & Information about the world of Mind Sports - MSO Worldwide

2005-04-19T19:46:00.000-07:00

MindZine - News & Information about the world of Mind Sports - MSO Worldwide

World Wide Brain Club

2005-04-19T19:42:00.000-07:00

Title says it all.

Yahoo! Groups : wwbc

43 Folders: Mentat: Wiki on becoming a better thinker

2005-04-19T19:40:00.000-07:00

This is a site dedicated to exploring ways to become a better thinker. I think I'll do some joint venturing with them.
43 Folders: Mentat: Wiki on becoming a better thinker

Internet Time Blog: Making It Work (Implementing)

2005-03-03T22:06:00.000-08:00

Internet Time Blog: Making It Work (Implementing)

Perfect Labor Storm

2005-02-17T07:29:00.000-08:00

Interesting and useful stats and other stuff on labor and work.

Perfect Labor Storm

Ten Assumptions

2005-02-15T09:24:00.000-08:00

Useful assumptions for dealing with life.
Ten Assumptions

hells.org: topics

2005-02-15T07:43:00.000-08:00

This is an eclectic group of thoughts from mostly young people on the world tody. It has some great promise and some dark mysteries. There are even some very possible mergings of the two. Plan to spend some time looking around.

hells.org: topics

My Other Blogs

2005-02-07T09:10:00.000-08:00

My other sites
Visit my site to learn more about me or one of my other blogs on coaching, thinking and project management.

Jon's SciTech Blog

2005-01-30T21:51:00.000-08:00

Brand new science cenered blog
Jon's SciTech Blog

Workforce Management

2005-01-30T20:55:00.000-08:00

Workforce Management

Random American Civilian

2005-01-25T19:19:00.000-08:00

Interesting thoughts.

Random American Civilian

Underachieving Mastery

2005-01-19T17:13:00.000-08:00

Underachieving Mastery

Leadership Now � Organizational Productivity

2005-01-15T20:52:00.000-08:00

Business leadership thinking blog. I provide training to one of the world's largest municipal management company's and I'm always looking for good business information.
Leadership Now � Organizational Productivity

Free Traffic Tips - the blog: Free Traffic Tips: Feed of the Day - Blogger.com's Recently Updated Blogs

2004-12-29T22:58:00.000-08:00

Free Traffic Tips - the blog: Free Traffic Tips: Feed of the Day - Blogger.com's Recently Updated Blogs

FREE traffic tips

AdSecrets Marketing Letter

2004-11-23T15:33:00.000-08:00

This is Carl Galletti's advertising website. Can be very informative.

AdSecrets Marketing Letter

Think Philosophy

2004-11-21T13:33:00.000-08:00

A very good philosophy and thinking spot.

Think Philosophy

ThinkQuest

2004-11-21T12:28:00.000-08:00

The Oracle site mentioned below.

ThinkQuest

I Don't Flip Burgers!! - The Entrepreneurial Success Website for Students

2004-11-21T12:07:00.000-08:00

This site is one of over 5000 sites created by students and hosted by Oracle (http://www.thinkquest.org/index.html). It seems pretty cool! Think about it.

I Don't Flip Burgers!! - The Entrepreneurial Success Website for Students

Exercise Advice Blog

2004-11-12T07:00:00.000-08:00

Exercise Advice Blog

Biz Stone, Genius

2004-10-22T13:03:00.000-07:00

Biz Stone, Genius

Mind Development - Helpful Links

2004-10-22T11:51:00.000-07:00

Great mind development site.
Mind Development - Helpful Links

Unique Thinkers!

2004-10-07T21:43:00.000-07:00

You know I was thinking about how amazing we as humans are. Then I thought about how our differences exhibit themselves in our individual body's. Some of us are right handed, others left, and still others can use either equally well, though they usually use one hand for some tasks and the other for others. We have a dominant leg, eye, ear. We have different hair color and texture, eye color and hue, even our faces have dominant and non dominant sides. We all know about the two hemispheres of our brain, but less of us are aware that there are an upper and lower (or limbic) section to each hemisphere. Every human has a preferred way to look at life's moments, encounters, and situations. These are associated with the different areas, or "quadrants" in our brain. Each of these areas has certain characteristics associated with it, and certain preferred ways of thinking go with each one. Upper lefts prefer information that is logical, analytical, fact based, and quantitative. Lower lefts prefer to think in an organized, sequential, planned, and detailed manner. Lower rights are known as interpersonal, feelings based, kinesthetic, and emotional. And Upper rights thinking can be perceived as holistic, intuitive, integrating, and synthesizing. Things really become individualistic though when you start adding in secondary dominant quadrants and degree of introversion or extroversion.
So when you take all these unique qualities of an individual you end up with a person that has their own unique thinking and learning style. I am as always fascinated at the magnitude of potential and growth that we as a species, and as individuals have for being Unique Thinkers! STRIVE ON!!

Driving Force Impacts

2004-09-20T01:39:00.000-07:00

Strategic scenario planning

Driving Force Impacts

Success...One Day At A Time: Just Think For A Moment

2004-08-27T07:19:00.000-07:00

Success...One Day At A Time: Just Think For A Moment

Another thinker!

Success...One Day At A Time: January 2003 Archives

2004-08-27T07:13:00.000-07:00

Success...One Day At A Time: January 2003 Archives

Here's an interesting and fact filled blog from Gary Vurnum.

I've been thinking

2004-08-11T08:54:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking. It seems to me that there are 3 main themes in higher level thinking skills with several sub-catagories under those. I believe that the 3 top levels of advanced thinking skills are: Critical, Strategic and Creative. I think that these three upper level skills will suffice when used to talk about advanced thinking. Critical thinking is need to know info. Strategic thinking is planning info. And creative thinking allows for the development of multiple ways of accomplishing a task. What do you think?

MSF 2

2004-08-01T21:19:00.000-07:00

WOW! That MSF BRC, Basic Rider Course, is amazing. I have ridden for over 30 years and the class was still challenging and entertaining to me. I finished the first weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) of a three weekend course today. We actually took and passed the same test the students coming to the course will take. (I'm in the Instructor Course). I am still amazed at the organization and content of the program, it is nearly perfect. The right information, presented in the right way, at the right time. COOL!!!!!

Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic Rider Instruction

2004-07-30T22:17:00.000-07:00

Started a class @ OSU_ OKC today to become a MSF certified motorcycle riding instructor. It's a cool class. I've been riding for over 30 years and I think they have a good way of explaining rider awareness issues. Seem to stress that experience makes the best teacher. Our job as instructors is to instill enough knowledge to ensure they (our students) live long enough to get experienced. This is an intense 3 weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sun) 60+ hour training and I've got homework to do. Talk at ya l8r.

Reference.com/Web Search/thinking

2004-07-28T21:02:00.000-07:00

Here's a handy list of site's about thinking.

Reference.com/Web Search/thinking

Dictionary.com/thinking

2004-07-28T21:00:00.000-07:00

This is a good place to start any conversation about thinking skills. It is dictionary.com's definition of thinking.

Dictionary.com/thinking

What is thinking?

2004-07-28T20:53:00.000-07:00

Webster’s dictionary gives a good definition: 1. to use the mind for arriving at conclusions, making decisions, drawing inferences, etc.; reflect; reason (& I add ---mentally create).

Thinking is the very essence of our humanity. Each sentinent being possesses at its' core some concept of self. This awareness and genetics then guides our existence. As humans we have a very well developed sense of self and are also acuately aware of 'other than self'. This acute awareness triggers something in us to search for order and patterns to name this 'other than self'. So perhaps at its basest thinking is just seeking order. What do you think?

My other sites

2004-07-26T23:23:00.000-07:00

Visit my site to learn more about me or one of my other blogs on coaching, thinking and project management.

audio welcome

2004-07-26T22:45:00.000-07:00