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Sometimes it doesn’t even feel like working!

Enjoy this video of my co-workers last night; unfortunately I skipped out before they took the stage.. Suzie, thank you for the great interpretative dance.

Keith rolled out his new site over the weekend- check it out!

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The new Hancock movie is going to be out on July 2nd, and the one thing I’ve noticed is that they’re promoting a movie with an unconventional slant on a traditional movie superhero.. well, quite conventionally. Billboards and TV (NBA Finals) tie-ins, but nothing (at least out here in Los Angeles, where the movie is set) that takes advantage of the plot.

This is a movie campaign that is ripe with ideas that could be done just about anywhere, and probably for less than the cost of a traditional billboard:

-Large scale graffiti project on the US Bank tower in downtown (ok, that’s a bit spendy..)

-Actually sticking a car on the needle of the Capitol Records building

-Punching fake “holes” through various office buildings throughout SoCal

-Fake bus benches that have been cracked/destoyed

-Whale outlines in sand along the SoCal beaches

-Crushed cars stacked in inconceivable ways along highways

Point is, just from viewing the trailers you can see that the opportunity was there to take advantage of our natural tendency to stop and pause for anything involving destruction or the unusual. It could’ve been fun and effective, but instead get the same old stuff that has grown tired and boring- just like some recent movies.

I’ve thought about it myself, but I hope to see more of it in the future. Ideally it would be great to have a bike lane on all freeways (think elevated and blocked from traffic interference) but until then I can only dream..

Click here to read more about this stunt and the group responsible for it.

Last summer, I decided to go car-free for a while (well, sorta.. I still use Gwen’s car) because I A) didn’t want to pay for another one right now B) realized that I needed more exercise and C) figured gas prices would continue skyward, making it nearly impossible to budget for in the future. I made the call that moving in with my best friend (Gwen) and splitting the costs (and commute) was a better way to roll- had I not done this, I’d likely still be driving the Z28 from Calabasas to Marina del Rey and back again everyday; that’s 50 miles a day in a car that gets 9mpg. Yikes.

On the way in today I felt a little better about my decision:

I get more exercise now than I have in a decade, my bankroll is steady, I have more time to pursue the things I enjoy (and not whittling away at my short time on this planet with a long-ass commute) and I also get to live with my best friend. Sometimes going against the grain can work to your advantage.

Of course I’m going to take the plunge at some point, but it’ll probably be vintage (and red/fast).

He’s one of my personal favorites and this video was an absolute treat. I highly suggest taking a look.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197

[I didn't write this, nor do I know who did.. it's been hanging on my wall for a number of years and can't find a copy online. Enjoy!]

Top 10 tips for facing failure:

1.  Failure is normal. Everyone has faced failure. Some people talk about their failures. Some people don’t talk about their failures, which makes it look like they never fail. Don’t believe it.

2. Define or refine. Failure can define you or refine you. If you quit, you have allowed failure to define you. If you keep going, learn from it and get stronger, you have used failure to refine yourself.

3. Learn from it. Every failure has something to teach us, if we will only be teachable. To be teachable, we need to ask good questions such as “What contributed to this failure?” or “What can I do differently and/or better next time?”

4. Change your definition of failure. We live in an either/or culture. Either you totally succeed or you completely fail. Many times it’s neither.

5. Redefine what failure means to you. A failure is simply evidence that you took a shot at accomplishing something, that you want to be a doer instead of just a talker.

6. Successful people fail often. How can you be successful and fail often? You become successful by taking risks. Risk implies that you might fail. Otherwise it would not be called risk-taking; it would be called sure-thing taking.

7. Build on your failures. Many of the great success stories are built on what was learned from failure or the motivation that can come from failure.

8. Don’t fear failure. The of failure holds us back from doing many of the things we would like to do.

9. Give up your belief in failure. A wise person once said, “Failure? I’ve never encountered it. I’ve just learned lots and lots of ways that don’t work, and turned that into a few successes.”

10. Never, ever give up. An ancient Japanese proverb suggests that we are to “fall down seven times, get up eight.”

http://sobertraveling.net/

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