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What I learned in Yoga today: Changing the collective whole by changine your consciousness. It all made complete sense. If you are relaxed and at ease, your world will be relaxed and at ease. If you are anxious and frustrated your world will be anxious and frustrated. Pretty obvious, huh?

Running a Service Business is without a doubt the hardest job in the world. The reason is because there are endless variables. No matter how many systems you have in place you can’t plan for everything. Imagine this scenario… you and some people on your sales team are pitching a giant project to a major…

Mike Coppola is a friend of mine. I’ve known him for a number of years. I was actually his bartender at the Medina Country Club when I got out of college. Mike is a Benefits Insurance Agent. He can help your company find the best benefits plan for you. If you are in the Akron,…

You’ll forgive me for thinking out loud here. But I’m in the process of trying to find a group to join that I can really get behind. My focus is Workers’ Rights. But what does that mean exactly? My interests in that area currently are all the middle class people churning away their hours at…

This has been an interesting week from a conscience point of view. The question has been, do you have a moral obligation to stand up for your beliefs… No matter the consequence. This question becomes all the more interesting from a blog point of view. Now you can stand up for who you are in…

Akron Mayor, Don Plusquellic has defended himself in today’s Akron Beacon Journal in regards to a run-in he had with a local valet attendant. You can read his entire editorial here: Beacon Journal | 07/31/2005 | Mayor: What’s at stake downtown I will give him credit that he does admit at least a little wrong…

I added a bit more to this post finally My man, Peter Lewis, is featured quite prominently in the August 2005 Vanity Fair. I’ve never really done this kind of collection of data on any one person before. It’s turning out to be pretty fun. Here are some Peter B. Lewis notes of interest from…

This is a story that has two sides to it: Don’s and the parking attendant’s. They both agree on these things: [Plusquellic says,] “I swore at him, fine. I threw in a few choice swear words to suggest to him that he was not being reasonable.” They both agree that the mayor threatened his job.…

Google Quote of the Day Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. – Herman Melville Man, isn’t that the truth. This is my agenda… not allowing the powerful to push around the weak.…

OK, this is just crazy. This thing has you think of something (anything) and within 20 questions it tells you what it is you are thinking. So far it’s 2 for 2 in the office: 20Q.net – the next generation of Twenty Questions

There is a new blog in town that is strangely addictive – at least to me: Damn You Ohio It features all of the things that are wrong with Ohio. I’ll leave you to decide if you think it’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Don’t forget. If you are ever thinking to yourself, “Boy, I really need to get Sage a gift, but I just don’t know what to get him.” Hop on over to Sage’s Wish List I have a wide selection of affordable gifts for you to send me. Oh, and if our paths aren’t going to…

“You’re one in a million, kid, but there are a thousand kids in China just like you.”

Zazen Posture Zazen (pictured above) when done correctly means taking the correct posture and entrusting everything to it. It leads to many good things: better circulation, allieviated congestion, lessened excitability, better digestion… Once you take the correct posture in life, you can allow whatever may happen, happen. The outcome is no longer your responsibility. You…

Here’s a great Healthcare M&A blog: Steve’s Blog: If It?s Not Medicare, It?s Medicaid

This is a very nice article about positive thinking… very inspirational, very encouraging. blah blah. This dude ran with the bulls in Pamplona. WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE!!! He was a rifleman in the marines in Vietnam and he ran with the bulls in Pamplona. I can’t take it. I have got to…

This speech is so good, it’s joining the all time great viral pieces found on the internet. It’s so good, you almost have to think it’s a hoax. But it’s not, you can read the text of the address right here on the Stanford site: Steve Jobs Commencement Speech at Stanford And I do recommend…