Creating a Positive Work Environment

Creating a Positive Work Environment

One by one, our daughters stepped up to the webcam, five girls in all: my three and her two. My home office isn’t huge and with all the girls joining us for part of the Skype call, it could have felt crowded, but it didn’t. I felt my world expanding in the...
Pardon the dust…

Pardon the dust…

Some big changes are coming to readers of 12 Minute Media. I’ll explain more later, but for now, I realize that there may be a lot of broken links here. Be patient with me? If you came here from a redirect from 12minutemedia.com, welcome to my favorite space...
Giving My Dreams Away

Giving My Dreams Away

A recent realization about work, dreams, and pursuing goals in life. Late Friday afternoon, about a week ago: I had exchanged a few tweets with a long-time Twitter friend while he worked to book speakers for an event. I had ideas for him: connections to make, friends...
Starting And Stopping

Starting And Stopping

Late Friday morning, after a busy morning of working, I stopped by our local post office to rent a box. While I filled out the paperwork and chatted with the clerk, my daughters wandered around the lobby. Looking at my business name, the clerk asked me how long...
Creating an Email Newsletter

Creating an Email Newsletter

Today is one of those days when I realize how much I am learning. A year ago, I had no idea what a friend was talking about when he asked me (about another friend) “Does he have a list?” I didn’t know that a list was a list of email addresses for...