Daily Intent

Santa Barbara, CA
A man passes away leaving his wife and young children without a male role-model.  The wife reaches out for male support for her children as there are no uncles around to aid in raising the kids.

 A husband walks out on his wife and child amidst an economic nightmare, leaving her to fend alone for her boy.  The boy’s female teachers think the world of him.  They want to see his dreams fulfilled.  They reach out for a male role-model.

A child grows up under an alcoholic mother and/or father.  The child is brilliant and ventures out into the world alone, a safer alternative than staying home.

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Santa Barbara, CA
Yesterday, 10 entrepreneurs and myself were fortunate to spend 2 hours learning from an expert in “compounding creativity”.

Wayne Rosing is an executive outlier; it’s even fitting to call him an executive outlaw.

He is a man that wants world perspective changing results.  He thrives on grandiose ideas.  And he has the intelligence and unconventional managing know how to get it done.

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Santa Barbara, CA
When studying economics, one of the first things you learn is how to carry out a cost-benefit analysis.  You learn to see things and analyze them from a perspective that compares whether the benefits of something outweighs its costs.

In the context of a purchase, its benefits are determined by the future owner.  The costs, too, are determined by the future owner.   The benefits can be any number of things including the emotions the object will bring about, the experiences the object will enable, or the people the object will attract.  Similarly, the costs are not solely the actual dollars expended, but the emotions, experiences and people foregone.

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Santa Barbara, CA
746%. 

The white chalk stood tall and proud on the blackboard as I entered Dr. Neal and Nicole Barry’s Chiropractic office.  Without a back story, the three digits followed by a symbol meant nothing.  They had no effect on emotion.  They propelled forward no extra brain activity.  The white was solely lines striking through darkness.

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Santa Barbara, CA
“Green”…

What emotion, idea, feeling, impression, and/or image does this word invoke in you? 

Do you think of nature, the “Green Movement”, a loved one’s eyes, a favorite color, a type of tea, or a green beer which you drank Wednesday in honor of the patron Saint of Drinking, O’Patty?

If you can see the image above, the Market Street Report’s header image, what effect does the green in the picture have on your eye?  Does it stand out?  Blend in?  Or accentuate?  Does it offer a feeling of nature into the city scape?

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