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| I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY
 I am delighted by hearing Tasra Dawson's interpretation of my speech. In fact, I think she explains my thoughts better than I do. She's a great writer. Here's what she wrote:
LIFE IS LIKE A BAR OF SOAP: Seriously. Haven’t you ever heard that before? Okay, so I’m
paraphrasing a bit from what Gary Fong said in his talk last night, but
I think a little creative license is allowed, right?
My interpretation of Gary’s analogy of soap was that when we try to
grasp for it, the more we work, the harder we reach for it, the more it
just slips right out of our hands. It’s when we let it go and let it
settle that we are then able to pick it up again. That’s not unlike
life or our dreams. When we strive, grasp and try so hard to reach for
something, it often remains just outside of our grasp. Or worse moves
further away from us altogether. Gary calls this the “Law of Repulsion.”
The question is how do you reconcile this letting go with my post
just two days ago about hitting your target. I think they actually work
together. The principle Gary was talking about is what led him to
become and write the book, The Accidental Millionaire.
It wasn’t through planning and focusing on being a millionaire. It
wasn’t even about knowing what businesses he would one day run and own.
What led him to where he is today (a multi-millionaire) was an upward
spiral of constantly doing what it took that day.
He started with wedding photography, began inventing products for photographers,
and eventually went on to purchase two companies—one to manufacture the
products and the other to ship them. That’s not really a trajectory
that anyone would say is common or likely. Yet, by being open to what
came next, by seeing that what he was doing at the present moment was
preparing him for the future moments, that’s where he ended up.
So the principle of preparation and doing what you can in the
context of your current circumstances is sound. It’s the daily
discipline of improving your craft. It’s the constant focus on the
process, what you can control in the present moment and letting go of
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| DROID VS. IPHONE - WHICH IS BETTER?
 I don't have much time to write a ton about this because I have an early day tomorrow doing a sales staff training at Robert's Camera here in Indianapolis. However, I would like to report that I got a Verizon Motorola Droid and, well, the iPhone has been retired. Here's why:
1) swappable batteries. Need I say more?
2) super fast web browsing. It tears the iPhone 3GS to shreds
3) tons of apps. In fact I replaced all of my apps (Facebook, twitter, bloomberg, etc)
4) Maps are FAR superior than apple. Turn by turn navigation by voice.
5) 5 megapixel camera WITH FLASH. Video? Yes
6) Verizon! Verizon dusts AT&T for coverage and signal strength. AT&T has about oh the worst cellphone coverage next to Sprint.
7) Tied in with Google. Google Docs, gMail, contacts on Google are all indigenous to the Droid.
8) flip out mechanical keyboard and smaller size than an iPhone
9) FULL MULTITASKING. No need to close an app when you launch another one.
So far the iPhone has the edge in the fact that mine has my entire music collection and movies. I don't think those can be transferred into the droid, so if that's the case, my iPhone can be replaced with a tiny Nano or something. I think Verizon had some pressure to maybe bring in the iPhone when the exclusive AT&T deal expired, but they pretty much wiped out the need for an iPhone with this one.
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| PUG MEETING, INDIANAPOLIS
Today I did training at the Robert's Camera store in Carmel, and then went to Kevin Swan's home for a community Pictage User's Group (PUG) meeting. I really liked the format of being at someone's home and sitting on a bar stool the whole presentation.
I think because it was more comfortable and intimate, it was conducive to more interaction, questions, etc. I really like teaching. Teaching and reading. Oh and eating Sushi. I like eating Sushi and I like those bath cubes at L'Occitane.
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| ECOPLASTICS FACTORY TOUR, COLUMBUS INDIANA
Today I went to visit my plastics factory in Indiana. We recently moved to a much larger building and went over plans for how to cover the tremendous demand for the Flip•Cage. I got to meet Steve's crew and the plant is so clean and well-organized.
Steve is running the plant 24 hours a day, five days a week. He's doing a great job! And his buddy is going to tell him that he's featured on my blog :)
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