What Can You Do With One Hour?

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I was walking around our home the last few days looking at this huge load of work I want to get done. There’s a driveway that needs repaving, a bathroom that needs gutting, an attic loft that needs trim finished, painting….renos galore. Then, there is the ½ acre yard which has not yet been put [...]

The Chandler Family Reunion

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I don’t usually post videos or news stories from mainstream media sources  at synaptici. However, Jan Wall sent this to me in an e-mail and it is truly inspirational so I just had to share it with you. Steve Hartman revisits the Chandler Family Reunion, 30 years after Charles Kuralt, who found this story one [...]

Humbled by an angel

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Recently, I was reading part two of an article that I appreciated by Bob Burg titled, To Have A Body. In it, he discusses how too often as humans we judge others by their appearance, like judging a book by its cover. Bob’s article brought back a memory I would like to share with you. [...]

William Kamkwamba on building a windmill

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When he was just 14 years old, Malawian inventor William Kamkwamba built his family an electricity-generating windmill from spare parts, working from rough plans he found in a library book. – from TED.COM I cried happy tears as I watched this remarkable young man make a short presentation about the windmill he built to produce [...]

It’s never too late to embrace our passions

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In one of my recent articles (Of skills, talents and gifts) I wrote the following: “I don’t believe that our gifts have an expiry date. Clearly, as we get older, it is more difficult. Sadly, most of us consider the idea of re-engaging our gifts or our passions as, impractical.” It doesn’t need to be [...]

Our problems are simply a blank canvas waiting for a solution. So, what kind of an artist will you be today?

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