How I Quit Smoking: The Monday Meditation

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Three years ago today, I quit smoking. It shocked people who knew me. Few believed - including me initially - I could do it. I started when I was eighteen and never looked back. Of course, quitting saved my life, but it did more. Here’s a quick digest of how I did it and what [...]

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Live Blog: Mommy’s Day Away

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Like most mamas, Dee works really, really hard to make sure our children don’t eat each other. Saturday, she set out for a richly-deserved day and night away from us. We hope she comes back. I thought I would sorta try my hand at mommy-blogging while she was away so, when she got back, she [...]

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My Favorite Super Bowl Ad

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I love the concept. I love the copy. I love everything about it. It made me want to check out the car. I just wish the Chrysler Eminem Detroit Love Story had been for Ford. Sorry. I also loved the VW ad. But I was bummed they showed the short version, and I think it’s [...]

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“Yes, but it’s a wet cold …”

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Heading out to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, this morning to kick off Behind a Wizard’s Curtain: The 2011 Radio Advertising Workshop. It’s, umm, kinda chilly there. I’ve got fleece packed and flannel packed and some polar bear food, and I’m ready to go. In truth, they’ve been great, and I’m excited. They’ve done all the [...]

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What’s Your Super Bowl?

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How you think it feels being Super Bowl XLV MVP Aaron Rodgers today? Wouldn’t it be cool to feel like that? To be at the very top of your game? That sense of accomplishment from a season’s worth of struggle and sacrifice? Beginning today, why not give yourself permission to kick off your own season [...]

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Super Bowl Party Game (for people who don’t care about sports)

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I’m attending a Super Bowl party this weekend with probably a dozen adults and approximately 471 small children. Of the dozen adults, maybe a handful of us would call ourselves sports fans. This is fine. This is common for the Super Bowl, I’m sure. But, in an effort to spice things up and remember the [...]

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My Space

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Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had a few people ask about the space I use to do (the majority of) my work. Warning - this is gonna get geeky. I work from home. Our house has two master bedrooms - one of which we (and be ‘we,’ I mean ‘my wife’) converted into this [...]

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Need To Dig Out? Boost Your Energy.

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You ever feel like you’re not sure how you’re going to dig out - either metaphorically or literally? We’re digging out from Columbia, Missouri’s first blizzard in recorded history. Last night, Interstate 70 was closed down from St. Louis to Kansas City, and we woke up to 17.5″ of new snow on the ground. We [...]

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Are You Prepared? The Monday Meditation

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Are you stocked up with the milk, bread, and eggs of marketing and advertising? As boy scouts and elves know, being prepared makes life much simpler, and in business, it provides you an opportunity to take advantage of immediate reaction to get the jump on your competition. My region’s imminent Winter Storm Warning Snowpocalypse offers [...]

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It’s The Weekend. It’s Elmo.

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Great. Weekend. Thing. Elmo surprises a pregnant woman at the screening of his documentary. Everybody?! Everybody?! Happy Weekend, Everybody! Hello in there! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or have new posts emailed directly to your inbox. Thanks for visiting!

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