There are many kinds of violation and, in every case, the person violated rightly feels all sorts of emotions, including anger, fear, frustration, shame and powerlessness. Such was the case when I discovered that this very website had been broken into by some unknown persons who uploaded more than 60 posts. Luckily, they were benign [...]
For the past few years, we’ve been inundated with the idea that businesses must use social media to drive sales. The purported logic is that social networks are an effective and necessary avenue for reaching out to customers. The more you reach out, the more money you will make. However, USA Today says a new [...]
Last night, I attended a Gary Burton/Chick Corea concert at Santa Fe’s Lensic Theater. For these two jazz legends it was the last night of a grueling global tour, although there was no evidence of burn-out or boredom. As professionals, they gave their fans a polished and passionate performance, connecting with the audience through brief [...]
Maybe you’re a lot smarter than me and I should be embarrassed to admit this, but I’ve spent many, many hours in the past year online attending webinars and teleseminars, and downloading and reading free eBooks offered by dozens of “gurus” who promised to help me make a fortune online. I wanted to understand how [...]
Depression. Anxiety. Despair. We are familiar with the morass of emotions regarding old systems and beliefs that separated us and no longer work, and new creative ideas and ways that connect us but are not yet fully developed. We know things must change, but it’s often difficult to imagine ‘how’ when it seems the “powers-that-be” [...]