The Real Blind Influence

Magical thinking can kill you. Now it’s been proven. After James Arthur Ray, self proclaimed ’self help expert’ and one of the stars of the book and movie The Secret charged 70 participants $9,933 each to attend a sweat lodge event, two died, 19 went to the hospital and the ‘law of attraction‘ [...]

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Socialnomics has put together a video driving home the reality of how social media is fundamentally shifting how we communicate, connect and consume culture in the 21st century.  Share it with anyone who tells you that social media is a fad, technology is isolating people rather than facilitating face-to-face meetings, or that Twitter is stupid.
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Before you watch the video below I want you to have someone read a short poem by Robert Frost to you.  If you read it to yourself it may not have the same effect.  So go ahead, ask whomever is closest to you right now to read this to you:
The woods are lovely, dark and [...]

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Have you heard of Brian Keith Voiles? Probably not, but if you have eyes you’ve seen his ad campaigns and you probably even bought products that he created ad campaigns for.
Would you like to have the formula he gets paid $12,500 to put into use for Fortune 500 Companies?  Are you curious as to how [...]

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Technology has rocked our world repeatedly in profound ways. This will happen many more times and is about to happen again with Google Wave.  It’s going to be a tidal wave!
Imagine email, instant messaging, document sharing and much more integrated into a real time platform.  Or don’t imagine it and just wait a few months [...]

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Last night I attended the Entrepreneurial Mashup hosted by Silicon Flatirons.  It was an event honoring the biggest entrepreneurs in Boulder.

It’s quite amazing to be in a room with 150 fun, successful, optimistic dreamers committed to building a better future.
As you’d imagine, it’s the opposite feeling of hanging out with people who follow every tidbit [...]

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Laws are not selective, unless you’re either rich, powerful, a celebrity , politically connected, or know someone who is when you break one.
Gravity is a law. It works 100% of the time with no excuses whether you like it or not.  In fact, you don’t have to buy a book or movie to see how [...]

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As the new year begins our hopes, dreams and goal setting flourish.  …and then the year moves on.
As time clicks by how strongly do you influence yourself to follow through with those hopes, dreams and goals?
Most people don’t even set goals and the majority of those who do set them find it challenging to stay [...]

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Influence is all around us and most of us are blind to it.  Hence, the title of this blog.
In reflecting on this I was amazed to see how far reaching influence is in our lives.  With the boom in social media this is becoming more and more obvious as people who were “nobodies” yesterday are [...]

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It’s not news that how you think the world is defines how it is for you.  What’s amazing is how many of us learn this, but continue to go through life thinking that our way is THE way.  Is your glass half full or half empty?
With the unending drum beat about the economy “crisis,” pounding [...]

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