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May 18th, 2007 by Lani Voivod
 This melifluous quote comes compliments of my Uncle John, a “could-be” and “has-been” if there ever was one! 
“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.” -Milton Berle
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April 16th, 2007 by Lani Voivod
Thank you to our friend and fellow content strategist Eve Orio of www.GoldenSummit.com for flagging today’s Urban Word of the Day, brought to her by www.urbandictionary.com:
April 16, 2007: epiphanot
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=epiphanot&defid=2352903
An idea that at first seems like an amazing insight (at least to the conceiver) but later turns out to be pointless, mundane, stupid, or incorrect, and often is the root cause of bad decisions. Mostly occurs under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Here is a bimutual epiphanot from one of Americas cinematic masterpieces, National Lampoon’s “Animal House”…
Larry: Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. (Jennings nods) This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be–
Jennings: Could be one little tiny universe.
Larry: Could I buy some pot from you?
As a co-owner of Epiphanies, Inc., a word like this is priceless. Finally, we’ve got a name for all those “circular file” ideas that don’t pass muster after the wine buzz wears off!
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February 8th, 2007 by Allen Voivod
The makers and minds behind The Secret are appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show today, and if you haven’t seen The Secret - or Oprah, for that matter - today would be a great day to check your local listings for time and station.
The “secret” of The Secret is The Law of Attraction, phrased one way as, “You get what you think about. Your thoughts determine your destiny.”
In other words, you’re supposed to dwell only on positive things, and focus on positive outcomes for any life situation - personal, business, health, money, you name it. And the flip side is that dwelling on the negative outcome only makes a negative result more likely.
Put in a nutshell, the thought gurus behind The Law of Attraction are telling us that our minds control our reality.
And the down-to-Earth, hyper-intelligent brains behind the content of Wired magazine seem to be leaning this way, too.
Their latest issue features the topic “What We Don’t Know.” It’s 40 little essays (the online version has 42) about things like what’s at the Earth’s core, what causes ice ages, and where your keys are.
Here are a few snippets from four of the 42 that, together, may surprise you:
Is time an illusion? Plato argued that time is constant - it’s life that’s the illusion. … The most radical interpretation of [Einstein's] theory [of time]: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn’t seem to happen at once.
How can observation affect the outcome of an experiment? Physicists have no problem with the cognitive dissonance of [a photon's] “wave-particle duality.” But… so… what’s light made out of, really? The dichotomy raises the mind-boggling prospect that unless we observe an event or thing, it hasn’t really happened, that all possible futures are quantum probability functions waiting for someone to notice them - trees falling unheard in a forest.
How do entangled particles communicate? According to a famous doctrine called Bell’s Inequality, for entanglement to square with relativity, either we have no free will or reality is an illusion.
Is the universe actually made of information? “What we call reality,” [John Archibald] Wheeler writes coyly, “arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions.” He adds, “All things physical are information-theoretic in origin, and this is a participatory universe.”
These are hard-science people addressing these questions, not airy-fairy folks strumming harps in between mantra-chanting.
Please watch Oprah today, and check out The Secret for yourself. It took me a while to come around (I’ve got a hard cynical streak in me), but I’m officially a believer in the Law of Attraction. And I deeply believe it’s worth your consideration, too.
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January 11th, 2007 by Lani Voivod
I may have just died and gone to my messy Heaven!
An e-newsletter from Creativity Coach Susan Fuller sent me to an article in Inc. magazine touting the virtues of being messy — er, I mean, being too darn brilliant and wildly entrepreneurial to live by the completely impractical advice doled out by get-organized gurus.
As someone who’s been downright depressed for never being able to keep a clean desk for more than a millisecond (THIS Herculean feat of forced clutter control broke records by lasting for two days!), an anarchical premise like this is DIVINE.
Here’s a sample snippet of the five-page counter-cultural blast:
The business world–indeed, the whole world–is much too biased toward neatness and order and overlooks the benefits of at least a modest level of messiness and disorganization. In contradiction to a hundred years of personal productivity and management wisdom, being somewhat disordered can be quite smart. And this holds true not just for personal neatness and organization but for structuring companies and designing work processes. And it applies to offices and homes and even to science and art and the rest of society.
Let’s take a simple example: the messy desk. Most of us have one, according to the survey, and if you think about it, it probably works quite well. Researchers who have taken the trouble to study desk neatness, like Microsoft senior researchers Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper, generally find that messy desks do a good job of reflecting the way people work–and thus can be more productive than a neat desk. No wonder. To keep a desk free of clutter, you’ve got to get everything that comes across your desk filed away or else processed and shipped to someone else’s desk. That may sound gloriously efficient, but it’s really anything but. For one thing, it takes time to get everything promptly filed or processed, and that’s time you could have spent making decisions or talking to customers. In other words, there’s a cost to neatness, one that people tend to ignore. In addition, by trying to deal with everything on your desk, you’re spending time with papers that could be safely ignored for a while–that’s bad prioritization. And, of course, if you want to retrieve a document, you’ve got to hunt it down in filing cabinets that often seem to eat important papers.
With a messy desk, on the other hand, you’ll end up with piles of clutter in which the more important, more urgent work naturally tends to end up close by and near the top, while the safely ignorable stuff gets buried near the back. You’ll sometimes have to hunt through a pile to find a document, but you’ll probably have a good idea where to look. That would explain why people who claim to have “very neat” desks in our survey report spending 36 percent more time looking for things than people who say they have “fairly messy” desks. Not only will work be at hand and be easier to find with a messy desk, and not only will you avoid the time cost of having to file and process, but you’ll also get the special benefits of serendipity–that is, you’ll occasionally stumble onto a useful document that if filed would have remained hidden forever and perhaps even make an inspired connection between two seemingly unrelated documents that end up together. (A National Institutes of Health scientist named Leon Heppel made such a connection while excavating through his spectacularly messy desk in the 1950s, and it led to a Nobel Prize for a colleague.) That may be why, according to a survey conducted by professional staffing firm Ajilon Office, office messiness tends to increase sharply with increased education, salary, and experience. Yet there are still many companies in the U.S., including General Motors and UPS, where you can get reprimanded for having a messy desk.
If you’ve ever struggled with organization, or felt unworthy because you “prefer” sweeping, plain view, horizontal filing systems to those pristine hidden filing get-ups, check out the whole article. It’ll make you feel so much better about yourself (dare I say, SUPERIOR to neat freaks?), and it may change the way you look at your awesomely creative desk, home, and lifestyle for the rest of your life.
Ditch the stress, own your mess!
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December 31st, 2006 by Lani Voivod
For solo professionals, entrepreneurs, and small biz owners everywhere - this one’s for you:
Ahhhhhh….2006’s come and gone - time to put your game face on
Looking back, you’ll likely see a manic-type of history
Little leaps and giant FLOPS, spurts of “Go!” and wicked “Stops!”
Bank accounts that flow and ebb, big advancements on the Web
So many ways to live your dreams, but nothing’s easy as it seems
Alas, you face another year, determined to flourish! Banish your fear!
Ready to do whatever it takes - mash insights with action, see what it makes
And while you’ll surely flop ‘n leap, reach some goals and lose some sleep
Seize opportunities far and wide, yet still cringe when others slide
May you always have some room to wiggle - and never, EVER forget to giggle!
Happy New Year, friends!
And if you doubt laughter’s clout, bite your tongue and check this out…
P.S. Want a little help getting 2007 off on the right foot! Well, hop on over to http://www.gonutsin2007.com/. Why? Because you’ll get to download a dynamite (and FREE!) special report we co-created with Acorn Creative. It’s an 18-page primer revealing a secret sauce that’ll help your profits soar in 2007…PLUS show you how to maximize your 7 major marketing opportunities while building deeper relationships with your clients (and get a bunch of new clients, too)! Don’t miss out!
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December 20th, 2006 by Lani Voivod
…A “very special and wise” mystery man, and presumably a friend of Lisa Wilder’s, since she ended her “How to Cope When Life Spins Out of Control” article with his profound quip:
“Keep your chin up and your t*ts off the floor!”
Amen to that!
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December 18th, 2006 by Lani Voivod
 Jiggidy-jig and away we go! Look at how Office Max gets savvy & hip with FUN, ENTERTAINING content - riding the holiday spirit wave…
If you watch the clip, you may notice that the pic of me to the left (which was taken at my home a week ago, I reluctantly admit) is the same one that’s on the dancing elf. Easy personalization, fun, quick, and perfectly branded, through and through. Bravo, Office Max! Thanks for knowing it’s good for your business to fund stuff that makes us happy. 
(If for some reason that link doesn’t work, or it’s got an expiration date, try your own at www.ElfYourself.com.)
Elfing yourself, it turns out, is a dynamite way to “A-Ha Yourself!”
Man - if artists, creatives, and programmers can develop and launch customizable animation like this in 2006, imagine what 2007 will bring…
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December 12th, 2006 by Lani Voivod
There’s newsworthy stuff, like peace rallies. But alas, the average announcement of a peace rally can earn more eye rolls than enthusiasts.
THEN there are peace rallies piggybacking on REAL newsworthy items, like a call for a worldwide orgasm party!(Talk about multiple orgasms!)
I found this article on a great little forward-thinking site called www.LASpirit.com, which advocates holistic living in fresh and thought-provoking ways. Enjoy - and by all means, take part in this important global mission!
 Two San Francisco peace activists have planned a massive peace demonstration for the Winter Solstice (the first day of winter, Friday, December 22, 2006), by urging everyone not to march in the streets, but stay home and have an orgasm while focusing on world peace. Donna Sheehan, 76, and Paul Reffell, 55, point out that the orgasm provides an incredible feeling of peace during and after. “Your mind is like a blank, like a meditative state,” says Reffell.
Their goal, they say, is to effect change in the energy field of the earth by way of a huge surge of human energy. The couple has cooked up other captivating media stunts. Sheehan, no relation to anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, organized 50 women in 2002, who stripped naked and spelled out the word “Peace,” spawning a min-movement called Baring Witness.
Sheehan and Reffell have studied evolutionary psychology and see war as mainly an outgrowth of men trying to impress potential mates. It’s a case of “my missile is bigger than your missile,” states Reffell. More details are available at www.globalorgasm.org.
Source: NHNE News
2006-12-07
Now THAT’S how to “A-Ha Yourself!” in a bold, fun, newsworthy way!!!
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December 8th, 2006 by Lani Voivod
It’s so darn cliche to like Seth Godin, but darnit, I do. Mostly because he often delivers soundbites that keep me alive, make me feel like all the hard work is worth it, and suggest I’m NOT crazy — that there’s more to success than a penchant for checklists, calendar systems, and organizational tools. All of which give me cranial ulcers.
For example, yesterday, on a plane ride, he found himself thinking about pilots. Methodical, procedural, focused, consistent, timely and always-better-in-the-background pilots. And though all who aspire to fly from one part of the world to another certainly appreciate pilots, those “pilots” in industry, business, and everyday life are as essential as a doily. (I’m paraphrasing.)
Behold, the simple soundbite that rocks my world, and makes me want to bust through the barriers of building a small biz and see it all play out:
We don’t need pilots. We need instigators and navigators, rabble rousers and innovators. People who can’t follow a checklist to save their life, but invent the future every day.
Brothah-man, Seth - thanks for saying that.
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