We’re not failures, it’s just that a do-nothing, no-talent celebrity, pouring wine on her ass, is suddenly more significant than our success. There’s an odd relationship between our culture and success. It seems, especially in these days of immediate information and constant distraction, success has become infinitely
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There’s something irrational about feeling the pain we feel from Robin Williams’ death. Who are we to mourn the death of someone we’ve never met? Who are we to assume his family needs our condolences or worse, reminding of the tragedy that has destroyed their lives? We
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This post was originally published in a personal rant on Facebook. After thinking about it, I decided to pull this post over to TheBrandChef.com to push it to a point. This is a PERSONAL BRANDING issue if there ever was one. Alex Rodriguez (“A-Rod”) and his doping
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Today I got to take the “Mr. Marketer / BrandChef” hat off for the afternoon and spend it at the Iowa State House with my wife and my eldest son to lobby for a cause that, over the last year, has become very dear to our hearts
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It’s that time of year again. The Holidays are winding down and the obligatory list of New Year’s Resolutions start showing on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and other open forums of much-too much public personal platitudes and promises. The one thing I’ve noticed on these lists, year after
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Grandpa Mac’s Call-To-Action for the Upcoming Generations. When did the skin of America become so damn thin? Remember when we were the chapped, rebel, bad-asses on the block? I do. Anymore we act like a bunch of pampered playboys (and girls to be P.C.) looking for the
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This is an OPEN INVITATION to ALL of my friends, colleagues and extended network! (please read all of this post… kinda long, but VERY important.) I wanted to make sure I invited all of you to this amazing event, the 2012 Business Growth Summit coming up on
FEED ME MORE! >> →Jonathan Fields is an author… That’s where it all started for me. I read his book, Uncertainty, Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance. And for those that know me, I NEEDED it. I can’t say it changed my life. I’ve personally understood what he wrote
FEED ME MORE! >> →“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” — Alexander Graham Bell This is for those of you out there that dwell just
FEED ME MORE! >> →While I try not to mix business, personal life and my public persona with ANYTHING remotely political, I usually refrain from posting content such as this. But in this election season started by the Iowa Straw Polls this week and destined to continue on through the next
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