David's Blog

Check this out! This amazing video of a Rube Goldberg type machine that wanders throughout a house is 3:17 long.  It must have taken hours, if not days to put this together, and likely had to be filmed in quite a few "takes."  (There looks to be far too much that could go wrong.)

The East Orlando Chamber of Commerce is hosting a community-wide, town-hall style forum for East Orlando to discuss how to make the vision of Innovation Way a reality. Specific topics to be discussed include: transporation, schools, health care, public safety and other issues.Date: Thursday, Marc...

I just ran across an article in a blog titled, "15 Reasons Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever."  What an inspiration!Would that we were all such a positive influence - not only in our families and for those with whom we're in constant, but for our communities and beyond.I didn't get through...

According to these two articles, this foreclosure proceeding has been going on since the owner, Joe Lents, stopped paying on his mortgage back in 2002!He doesn't dispute owing the money, he claims he just wants to be sure he's paying it to the rightful Lender.Defending himself has, so far, cost m...

I was continuing to work on developing the new habit of reading this morning and came across a passage that included the famous phrase above... well, not exactly.  But I believe it's the passage from which the phrase above was derived.The actual phrase I came across read, "For as he thinks within...

"To hear the Lou Dobbses and Bill O'Reillys of the world--not to mention politicians ranging from Ron Paul to Hillary Clinton--the middle class of America (however you define that term) has never had it so tough. Between credit squeezes, out-of-control immigration, rising costs of education and h...

As I commented in Jim Fischetti's blog, I've been reading and struggling my way through Think And Grow Rich.  Now that I've finished the book, I think I'll post a bit about it.I've heard about the book for quite a few years (it was first published back in 1966.)  And it came VERY highly recommend...

This morning I went to one of my (new) regular networking group meetings.  The leader of the group had forewarned us that he'd be giving a book review of The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino.  He talked about how this little book had made such a profound impact in/on his life as he st...

Yesterday I wrote about Exceeding Expectations versus Meeting Needs.  I proposed that we should first and foremost focus on discovering and meeting the needs of our clients. Today I want to talk a little bit more about exceeding expectations, but more from the perspective of trying to achieve exc...

I was just reading this blog entry by Lisa Spalding and it got me thinking...What are we focused on trying to do?  Exceed expectations?  Or Meet needs?What, if anything, is the difference?I believe we should forget about trying to "exceed expectations" and put the vast majority of our energy into...