Welcome to all Typepad users visiting today! This is my first advice post for bloggers. Every day I offer a single piece of advice to assist you in your business, marketing and relationship life. Come back on the weekends for music recommendations from the world of independent and world music. I’m a professional speaker and …

Face it; your emails are part of a snow storm blowing into someone’s Crack berry. Your carefully worded opus is part of a day’s load of information that you expect to poke through, get read and hopefully elicit a response. If you want to jump out of the e-noise and improve your readership with your …

I just love how random an IPOD can make life. You put it on shuffle and let it choose one of five thousand songs. One recent shuffle landed on a band I hadn’t thought about in ten years: Morphine. When they came out in the 90’s, they took over the college live music scene. Their …

Every day, many of us experience the interrupt stress of email coming in. Spam, memos, love notes, pitches, newsletters, they just keep coming in.  You are working on a spreadsheet and the little envelope starts jumping or you hear a bell — and you stop what you are doing to check and see what just …

I’ve always noticed that Mondays are treated like mountains in our business life. They are tall, you can’t go around them and they are always there to stand in your way on the way to next Friday. We charge inand try to do 100% of our week’s obligations on Monday. One person recently told me …

Today I could spend about seven to eight hours watching two can’t miss playoff games. The sports media gang is smug in their belief that, unlike American Idol, they are TIVO-proof. You have to watch the games in real-time, right? Yeah, if you are having a social event. But what if just YOU were watching …

The two music categories I scour are indie rock and electronic/world.  I’m thrilled to tell you about two brand new records that will curl your toes with musical delight:Saint German des Pres Cafe, Volume 8This is a collection of swank lounge funk nujazz downtempo and head tracks.  Saint Germain is a brilliant French DJProducer that …

This week’s musical recommendation is Cat Power. Her name is Chan Marshall and she is a wonderful solo artist from the southern US with a sound that is PJ Harvey meets Mazzy Star sweet. Her songwriting is brittle, yet tender. Recommended listen: The Greatest by Cat Power

Do you remember the days where you had the weekends clear of “work chatter”? If no one had your home phone, you left on Friday and resumed your work life on Monday. Pagers came into our lives and began to erode this. Cell phone became popular in the late 80’s and eroded this sanctity further. …

I have a television in my home gym and it has changed the way I watch football. My wife is a football widow, I love USC, The Cowboys and even World Cup style football (England was my team). All in all, I spend a great deal of time watching football. This year, though, I’ve made …