Category: Personal Experience
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English and the Foot Long Sandwich
When it’s your first time going to a foreign country, even simple things like ordering food can make a lifelong impression.
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How I Got Into Distance Running and What I Learned from the Experience
How I learned to discover, accept and love my body for what it is.
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Win Customers By Helping Them Take Their Business Somewhere Else
Don’t worry. If you do it for the right reason, they will come back.
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The Best Border Inspection Experience!
I gave up hoping for a quick check through the immigration when the Department of Homeland Security officer put my passport into a red folder and motioned me to step aside and wait. Out of thousands of passengers arriving in LAX that day, I was one of the lucky people…
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Lessons Learned from A House Project
1. A general contractor, no matter how smart he speaks, is NOT a designer. 2. And neither is he an architect. 3. What is generally accepted as good is not always for you. Find your own style 4. Put every little tiny annoying detail in writing. People forget. When they…
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Power of Vision
This is an experience that I have kept to myself for over two years. In a selling skills class that I recently co-facilitated, I thought it would make a good illustration for a point that I was getting across, so I shared it for the first time. I suppose I…
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The Curse of The Abominable Paper Stack
By the end of last year, I finally achieved something that seemed to be impossible. I cleared my desk at the office. I found the biggest cardboard box, put all the stuff that had been piling on my desk for months, and shoved the whole thing under my desk. Voila!…
Life At Slow-Mo 