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GURU TASTING
… gurus are great in small bytes
Tuesday June 3, 2014 
 
 
 
Insight.
 
I love that word, as if saying it meant we can see inside ourselves. 
 
When we try, do we see what is real or what we wish was true?
 
I think we look for trouble sometimes where it doesn’t deserve to be looked for, doubt ourselves when we deserve so much better – because we look with a magnifying glass instead of a window, or we look in the rear-view mirror instead of keeping our eyes on the road ahead.
 
I have to be brief this morning – but I’ll leave readers some heavy meat. I’ve been a bit Tom Peters fan for more than 30 years. More recently, I’ve become a Seth Godin fan – and I get his blog posts every day . Really, why wouldn’t I like the daily utterances of an interesting bald guy? Seriously, he’s well worth following if you are interested in anything connected with thought, marketing, business and social media and change. He’s spectacularly smart, and yesterday he shared a link to 44 minutes of YouTube delight for me. The speaker is Tom Peters – he’s talking to a largely female audience, so his talk is tailored to them – but his message is relevant to everybody everywhere any day.
 
Must run, so I have to cut this short – I have a conference to attend.
 
 
 
Mark Kolke
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column written/ published from Calgary
 
 
morning walk: 8C/47F, we walked very early (I had a newsletter to get out), pre-sunrise in that twilight kinda-glow, a flight of geese honked overhead to Gusta’s delight but she was unable to get off the ground, but she gave chase for a short sprint that was good for both of us …
 
 
Reader feedback / comments always welcome:
 
 
TOO MUCH DIS-INFORMATION
Truth lives in all of us. Some of us hide it more than others, EC, Chicago, IL
 
TETHERED KNOT
Are they typos or intended puns?  In your "Tethered Knot" musing on the start of the month of June, a couple of interesting spelling and/or word choices caught my eye and my funny bone.  The first was "it is June, it will last all day, from MOANING till noon and then on to midnight".  I thought you greeted each new day by springing forth from your place of repose with vigour and enthusiasm, not moans and groans? The second was "A new month is adventure.  A new month is BLAND canvas".  The simple act of replacing a K with a D puts a whole new face to how you really feel about June.  Both letters on the QWERTY keyboard are typed by the middle finger - you used your left hand (the sinister one) to type the letter instead of your right(eous?) one.  Methinks Freud would have a field day interpreting your inner truths. Cheers, CM, Calgary, AB … P.S.  I had an aunt named June.  When she was pregnant, she was lauded with the song from Oklahoma that went "June is bustin' out all over".....

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