Notorious Spinks Talks

30 Day Road to Discovery: Day 25 – Character

01.30.11

This post talks about identifying and living a life with character.

30 Day Road to Discovery: Day 24 – Loyalty

01.27.11

Tweet{I’m behind on posts! Please forgive me. This is Tuesday’s post} Yesterday millions of people around the world tuned into the Oprah Winfrey Show. Too bad I had to wait until it came on in my area which is 4pm CST while my Chicago peeps got to watch it in the morning. Well Twitter never… [Read more…]

My Fabulous Five…

01.24.11

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Tweet Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to help grant a friend’s wish! I’m honored to to spotlight My Fabulous Five Bloggers. Now let me say before some of my Spinkys throw… [Read more…]

30 Day Road to Discovery: Day 21 – Achievement

01.22.11

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This post highlights Randy Pausch's last lecture, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams and his book, The Last Lecture.

30 Day Road to Discovery: Day 20 – Ordered Steps

01.21.11

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This posts talks about the realization of finding out that the course you started is not the one intended or how it destined to change.

30 Day Road to Discovery: Day 13 to 16 – Community

01.17.11

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TweetI’ve been working on this post for four days. I had to really dig deep to find the words for this post. My emotions were really all over the place. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true… [Read more…]

30-Day Road to Discovery: Day 12: If

01.13.11

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TweetGood morning Spinkys! I hope your week has been superb. My week has been busy and productive. There are so many opportunities surfacing for me and I’ll share soon! In the meantime I just wanted to share one of my favorite poems with you. I had to learn it in the 10th grade and recite… [Read more…]

30-Day Road to Discovery: Day 11- Remember

01.12.11

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TweetOne-year ago today, a massive earthquake sent Haiti into a state of emergency. As I tweeted away I remember my time line filling up with reports of the quake. Like so many I turned my television to MSNBC to see what was going on. Hours later as phone calls from people in Haiti started to… [Read more…]