Mice Problem in the Office
We have mice in our office and they are taunting us. You can read about it over at Peachy Perspective. There are now some funny comments on that post.
Strengths Finder 2.0
Tim Rath has put out the book Strengths Finder 2.0. The book gives a brief description about personal strengths and then goes into detail about 24 themes that describe what most people's strengths are. The idea of this book is to encourage you to work in your strengths and not focus on improving your weaknesses. The book also will give you access to take an online test through Gallup, which will tell you what your top 5 themes are.
Incidentally, I have also read Buckingham's Now, Go Discover Your Strengths which gives you access to Gallup's 1.0 version of the strengths finder test. I like the course of action that you take with the Strength Finder 2.0 test much more than version 1.0. Version 1.0 virtually does nothing other than tell you what your top five themes are.
It is interesting however, that 1.0 and 2.0 gave me different results in terms of what my top five strengths were. Here they are below. What are yours?
Incidentally, I have also read Buckingham's Now, Go Discover Your Strengths which gives you access to Gallup's 1.0 version of the strengths finder test. I like the course of action that you take with the Strength Finder 2.0 test much more than version 1.0. Version 1.0 virtually does nothing other than tell you what your top five themes are.
It is interesting however, that 1.0 and 2.0 gave me different results in terms of what my top five strengths were. Here they are below. What are yours?
Strengths Finder 1.0 1. Competition 2. Maximizer 3. Individualization 4. Significance 5. Analytical | Strengths Finder 2.0 1. Deliberative 2. Significance 3. Intellection 4. Achiever 5. Competition |
Feeling Violated
So this post is for me more than anything else, but I am feeling a little violated and a little angry at myself. Sometime between Sunday night and this morning, someone helped themselves to our son's DVD player in the minivan. We don't usually lock our doors so we had it coming I guess. It's just that it makes things a little uneasy - oh and angry.
We live in a great neighborhood with many fine upstanding people, but there are a few bad apples. For example, a few weeks back we cracked our windows one morning when the weather was nice outside. Then we heard a girl screaming "He said I was no longer a part of the family!" as she walked away from what must have been her mother. She stomped off dressed in some kind of strange outfit. On Sunday night, we noticed that girl hanging out in the street with several other friends on skateboards not caring at all about traffic. It makes me wonder if it was them.
Anyway, now we have to start locking our doors and my son's favorite DVD will need to be replaced - well maybe not since Baby Einstein was starting to drive me crazy. If it was some punk kid that took the DVD player, then I hope he/she loves it and finds a little happiness using it because I imagine their life has very little happiness anyways. Besides it's not like it was that expensive.
I suspect it was a kid, because they didn't pilfer. They just took the DVD player. They could have grabbed the other DVD player that came with the set that was in the back seat and the cash tucked away in the console. Geez, if you are going to steal stuff, at least do a good job doing it.
We live in a great neighborhood with many fine upstanding people, but there are a few bad apples. For example, a few weeks back we cracked our windows one morning when the weather was nice outside. Then we heard a girl screaming "He said I was no longer a part of the family!" as she walked away from what must have been her mother. She stomped off dressed in some kind of strange outfit. On Sunday night, we noticed that girl hanging out in the street with several other friends on skateboards not caring at all about traffic. It makes me wonder if it was them.
Anyway, now we have to start locking our doors and my son's favorite DVD will need to be replaced - well maybe not since Baby Einstein was starting to drive me crazy. If it was some punk kid that took the DVD player, then I hope he/she loves it and finds a little happiness using it because I imagine their life has very little happiness anyways. Besides it's not like it was that expensive.
I suspect it was a kid, because they didn't pilfer. They just took the DVD player. They could have grabbed the other DVD player that came with the set that was in the back seat and the cash tucked away in the console. Geez, if you are going to steal stuff, at least do a good job doing it.
Dave Ramsey vs. a 3 Year Old
This is a video clip of a girl whose Daddy has listened to Dave Ramsey and as a result told his daughter that the "Princess Express" card is a bad idea. He is teaching his little girl that "credit cards" are bad. You can watch it here. I'm sure there are grown ups who probably act worse than this when it comes time for them to give up their credit cards.
Way to go dad! I Love it.
Way to go dad! I Love it.
How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog
Over the past few days I have skimmed through Todd Stauffer's book, How to Do Everything with Your Web 2.0 Blog. There were several things that I picked up on about setting up and running a blog that I have never considered before. However, most of the book helped confirm a lot of things I was already doing or discovered.
Here is what I think. If you are new to blogging - this book is a great resource to get you started and explain how the blog-o-sphere works. If you have been blogging for awhile it's still worth picking up to pick up on a few issues you may not have thought about or have forgotten.
Here is what I think. If you are new to blogging - this book is a great resource to get you started and explain how the blog-o-sphere works. If you have been blogging for awhile it's still worth picking up to pick up on a few issues you may not have thought about or have forgotten.
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