Author: Dave Rhodes
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Don’t forget the training wheels
When I retired from the Air Force I ran for the last time. Didn’t really enjoy it and my back had enough. I did go out and buy a bike…and I love bike riding. The saying is true…”it’s like riding a bike”. I got right on it and took off…but that wasn’t how I started…
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The answer to every unasked question is “no”
How many “good ideas” or improvements have never happened because you or someone else kept it to themselves? This can happen for many reasons…but like the title says: “the answer to every unasked question is “no””. Maybe you “thought” you knew the idea would get shot down. Perhaps the person you have to ask has…
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Invest in You
Many times when we hear the word “invest” we think money. Investing effort in making you better can be just as valuable…maybe even better. The best thing…companies are willing to help invest in you because a better you is good for them. This might seem like a pat on the back, but this is just…
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Are you fluent in body language
If my memory serves me correctly, every year in school I took some sort of English class. Along my journey through school I was also given the opportunity to take a year of Spanish and 3 years of French (I remember very little). One language they never really teach you about is body language. This…
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Just put the puzzle together
Now I know that everyone probably doesn’t use this method…but many do. Think about how you put a puzzle together. You dump the pieces out, sort the pieces with straight edges (so you can put the frame together first) then probably prop the top of the box up so you can see what the puzzle…
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Take advantage of your commute
Mid-March of last year we were sent home and told to figure out how to do our work from home. Since then, besides a few weeks of preparing to retire from the military, I haven’t worked outside the house. I remember many years of driving in traffic coming to and from work…always saying how I…
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Use your turn signal
Have you ever been driving and taken time to really think about what is going on with all of the vehicles on the road? Sure, there are some accidents from time to time, but big picture, it is an amazing thing to watch all of the vehicles driving around, maneuvering through traffic, and everyone finds…
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Just Draw in the Dirt
You’ve heard me say many times that in order to get somewhere you have to set a goal…have a plan…makes me think about playing football when I was a kid. We’d grab all the neighborhood kids we could, a good game would be 5-5 or 6-6 teams. Most of the time the quarterback would get…
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Sometimes you just have to jump
How many times have you set a goal and you didn’t meet it? We do it all the time…just ask anyone that has set a New Year’s Resolution. Sometimes we just talk about that one thing we’ve always wanted to do but just never have done it. We can set goals, we can talk about…
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Every day you change a life
For the most part, I’d think it is fair to say that most of us either provide some sort of product or service in whatever industry we are in. I’d also think it is fair to say, most of us will never see the actual user that will use the end product that is delivered…and…
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