It's a Take Action Tuesday in Western PA

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.  It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.  

~Nolan Bushnell

So it's Take Action Tuesday!   My day started early and is scheduled to go very late... tomorrow too!   And it is take action Tuesday - be in action - be action.   

If you know what you are committed to produce, what action can you take now.  Even a little action that will move you further towards your goal.    

If you aren't sure what you are committed to - stop and ask.  What is really important to me?  If today were my last day, if this were my last moment - what would i want to have accomplished?   If you are like me, an action to take will become clear.  That's the thing to do.   I invite you to do it now.

Love to hear the results of your actions.  What you picked?  What you did?   What you produced? (or didn't produce)  

Go For It!!  What else is there to do?

Steve

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Finish Strong Friday at EDL Stadium

 This week I met a man in his late 70's.  He was amazing.  He'd recently lost his 2nd wife, who he'd found happiness with at 68.  He was focused on his future, on leading a vibrant, active, meaningful life.  He had so much more to contribute and he want to do that.  I was inspired

So it's Friday.  We've talked about this before.  What can I get into today that will make a difference to my game.  What can I get done this month... while it may look like only a little over a week left, it's actually 43% still to happen.

(i'd written this Game of the Day once and accidentally deleted part of it.... it sounds different this time.) 

God gave us the sun rise and the sun set, he gave us the changing seasons.  We made up the calendar; the weeks and the months.  Use it to your advantage, don't let it use you.   

It is your game, the one you are playing - as long as you're playing you might as well play to win.

Please take a minute to read my special request below - it's part of my game.

 

Have a wonderful day.

Steve

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I really appreciate your taking the time to read the Game of The Day.  It's been fun so far, has made me think and I hope contributed to you.   Thanks for giving me the opportunity to contribute.

 

 

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Make It Happen Monday!

 Wow!  It's make it happen Monday at Starting Gate Park!

So today is the day we've all been waiting for.   Today is "someday"!  

That's right, its the day all procrastinators look for.  It's the day when the thing we've been putting off is on the top of our to do list.  If you are a super-procrastinator with a really big list, just pick on thing and put it in the top spot.  

Today's is its day in the sun.

So take a look, pick something that you just haven't made the time for but you know you should be doing, get it done or started today.    It's sort of like an amnesty day, no guilt, no making yourself wrong for not having done this thing before.  

Take the next action and let us know what happens.

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Don't make excuses - make good.

Elbert Hubbard

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TED Blog: TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything -- and he answered

via blog.ted.com

Lots of good stuff in here.... how we educate, what we measure, a different paradigm for moving forward.

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Ingram Micro Cloud Summit: Top 10 Highlights

The Ingram Micro Cloud Summit is wrapping up in Dallas today. Roughly 250 VARs and managed services providers attended the conference. So what were the key takeaways? And better yet… what rumors surfaced behind the scenes? Here are some observations from MSPmentor.

The top nine highlights include:

1. Cloud Hosting Is Like A Hotel: Pay by the night and everything is taken care of for you, asserted Lew Moorman, president and chief cloud strategy officer at Rackspace Hosted.

2. Emerging Partnerships: As expected, Ingram announced cloud relationships with Amazon.com, Rackspace and Salesforce.com. And I hear more moves involving Ingram and Salesforce.com could be coming…

3. No Monopoly: Saleforce.com’s Peter Coffee predicted that there will be no Microsoft of the cloud. In other words, no single company in the cloud will generate the type of market dominance that Microsoft enjoyed on the desktop, Coffee asserted.

4. Market Shift: Roughly 10 percent of servers are in the cloud right now. That figure will shift to 50 percent by 2015, Rackspace’s Moorman predicted (sorry, I didn’t catch Moorman’s source for the data point).

5. Reliability: There will be hiccups. But cloud vs. on-premise is like airplanes vs. cars. Airplanes are more reliable but make headlines when there’s an accident. The case is similar with cloud computing, asserted Moorman.

6. Changing Teams: Sun Java veteran Matt Thompson is now an evangelist for Microsoft’s cloud effort. He says roughly 140 new applications debut on the Windows Azure cloud per hour. “We’re betting the company on the cloud,” said Thompson. “If I didn’t believe it I would have gone to one of 25 cloud start-ups.”

7. Public vs. Private Cloud: Several speakers dismissed private cloud opportunities. But Microsoft made the case that private clouds will be a bigger opportunity than public clouds.

A case in point: More than 10,000 customers now leverage Microsoft’s Windows Azure public cloud platform. But Microsoft evangelist Matt Thompson says the broader strategy is to take Azure’s core technology and make it available via on-premises Windows servers, SQL Server deployments and

8. Groundhog Day: Build your brand. Build your sales team. Hire some vertical market expertise. On one hand, I’m tired of hearing those messages. On the other hand, the messages remain true for VARs and MSPs heading toward the cloud.

9. The Dumb Money Has Entered the Cloud: Microsoft’s Thompson said VCs are now making pumping “dumb money” into cloud start-ups. In other words, VCs are hooked on the cloud hype but many VCs were late to the table and are now making wild bets that may not pay off.

10. What I Still Need to Check Out: I missed several breakout sessions today from a range of vendors. Although I couldn’t be two (three, or four…) places at once, I plant to catch up with some of those presenters tonight.

More thoughts soon. Thanks for reading.

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Interesting spectrum of comments and ideas about cloud computing and where it is going. Makes me more and more confident that the course of EDL is the main stream of the future.

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What's This Mean? Wednesday

    Todays game is a little different.   

Most of us have heard of this guy - Albert Einstein.  He's credited with having a pretty big impact on our understanding of our physical world with his theory relativity and the like.   

Below is a quote from our friend Albert. I noticed it recently as a post on a friend's post on Facebook.  Take a moment to read the words, question their meaning and look to see how they apply in your life.  Are you present to the mysterious?

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

Albert Einstein

Are you present to the mysterious?

Appreciate if you'd take a minute and put your thoughts and comments on the blog post of today's game.   Whatever you choose to say is fine, consider that it will most likely contribute to another person's experience.   Post it here at http://8pecks.com

Have an awesome day.

Steve

 

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Totally Terrific Tuesday

 Good morning everyone.   It's been a few days since the last Game of the Day - a week in fact.  Hope you missed it, I actually missed writing it.  There was nothing wrong, just busy.

Today is Totally Terrific Tuesday.   This is like a bonus day.   Everything today, no matter what occurs in the context of being totally terrific.  So my job, (and your's if you choose to accept it) is to find the terrific in everything around me today.  

There is a chance that one or two situations will creep in that my not look so terrific.  It's in finding the terrific in them that will give me "power", creativity and effectiveness in dealing with the situations.   That's what terrific Tuesday is all about, me causing today to be terrific no matter what life throws my way.

Confused about this?  No problem, let me know and I'll be glad to help you.

Welcome to Terrific Tuesday.

 

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Tell Your Story Tuesday

Welcome back to the game.   It's "Tell Your Story" Tuesday.   

Get the word out. Let the world know who you are and what you have to offer.   We all have something unique to contribute to others, to make a difference in their businesses, and their lives.   This is where our business comes from, telling our story

Not sure what story to tell, well use this as the opportunity to get your story clear.   You have one, we all do.   Seek out help if you need it, but get this done.   Each day that goes by with out your story being told is a loss for the rest of us..

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Time is within your control.

Luanne Oakes, Ph.D.

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