Over the weekend, I replaced a broken bulb in my van’s tail lights. The van told me which one was broken. A quick YouTube search told me how to fix it, and a quick Google search told me the part number. Easy. So, I headed to my neighborhood auto parts store and picked up a …
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Measuring Growth in Your ‘Return on Lifestyle’ Business
In almost all cases, growing a business means one of the following: – ever-increasing revenues – ever-increasing share price – ever-increasing customer count – ever-increasing headcount These are the metrics reported in the business section. These are the numbers that get everyone – the leadership team, the shareholders, early investors, the office space owners, the …
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Your Calendar is Your Humanity
Before I understood how to use a calendar, I had blank, 3*5 index cards. I’d carry a fat stack of them, bound with a bulldog clip, in my messenger bag. I’d use them for everything; idea capture, task capture, ad hoc business cards, inspirational quotes, everything. One discreet notion per index card, detailed specifics on …
Why You’re Chronically Late
Where does the time go?
Time is the worst renewable resource. Absolutely the worst. Unlike coal or crude oil, time doesn’t even give you the option of not using it. Your time will be used whether or not you use it for anything deliberate, purposeful, or meaningful. Time continually evaporates. Completely ambivalent to you and your needs. While you can’t …
A Hunger
When I am running, left pulling ahead of right pulling ahead again and again and a gain faster than I think I can, my stomach is empty.
My Breath is the Wind
My breath is the wind and my body a cloud pushed through a clear summer sky ever faster, ever steadier, ever calmer, ever easier.
Resorting Taxonomy Listing by Meta_Value
To sort a taxonomy in the front end by a meta_value put this in your theme: $terms = apply_filters( ‘get-terms’, array(‘taxonomy’=> ‘TAXONOMY_TO_REORDER’, ‘meta_key’ => ‘YOUR META_VALUE KEY’,’orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’)); To sort a taxonomy in the admin view by a meta_value put this in your functions.php: add_action(‘get_terms_args’, ‘custom_get_terms_args’, 1, 2); function custom_get_terms_args($args, $taxonomies) …
All There Is
Back in 2008, I received a half pound of George Howell’s Terroir Coffee: El Salvador: Finca La Montaña. This particular coffee won the Cup of Excellence the prior year and then – the plantation was completely wiped out by near hurricane strength winds. Gone. The half pound in my possession, in the middle of winter …