Daily Intent

Santa Barbara, CA ~ By Jeff Bochsler ~ Follow me on Twitter or tell the world on Facebook via the link above.

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What were your highlights of 2011? Do me a favor and write below your TOP 7 “To All That is Good” list.

Live and Be Well,

Jeff Bochsler

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Santa Barbara, CA

It brings me great joy to announce, this Friday, January 28th, I will begin a four month South American Sabbatical.  I will arrive in South America February 2, 2011 with a return flight back to the states on June 1, 2011.

Rio de Janeiro at Night

Bank of America has graciously agreed to sign-off on this personal leave of absence that will afford me time to explore my long standing attraction to and interest in economic development efforts in the “developing” countries of South America, most notably Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.

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A Tribute to Dorine Ann Lydon: November 8, 1929 – December 4, 2010.

Eat. Pray. Love.

Simple, important words, though often terribly difficult to consistently live out.

It seems fitting to focus our Christmas and New Year’s card on these three words, not because Hollywood recently popularized a wonderfully successful book, but because my mom, the kids’ grandmother, Dorine Lydon, exemplified each in a way that we can all learn without traveling the globe. 

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If I remember the parable correctly, you can give a woman a fish to eat, though it is far better if you can teach this woman to fish, filling her belly for a lifetime.  What is peculiar to me is why more people don’t stop to inquire as to whether the woman even likes fish.  Perhaps she is Vegan.

Sadly, being a high school valedictorian didn’t correlate to an inquisitive, curious, and jovial mind; rather it exemplified my greater ability to promptly complete busy work, arrive to class on time, please others, and find favor with classmates and teachers.  Indeed I had my moments of such greatness, but I wasn’t consistently challenging schools of thought, or making attempts to see things differently.  I was happily naïve and fittingly successful.   

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“Ideas are eons away from products and products are eons away from a viable business.” –Dr. Yulun Wang, founder of InTouch Health.

Eons away. 

Have you ever had a great idea and never wanted to share it with anyone for fear of the idea being stolen?  It is your idea.  You don’t want anyone going off and building it out before you are able.  So you keep the idea to yourself.  You share it with only a few of the people closest to you and request even they keep it in confidence.  Then you wake up five years later and the idea is still an idea.  No serious product or even project has come out of it.  The only thing that happened in the interim is a couple more people in your sphere know about this “brilliant” idea.  

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Extra!  Extra!  Read all the commentary!  The results are in.  The notations are tallied.  We have a nice range of responses from the “Quarterlife Crisis” MSR written on April 30th.  I believe you will appreciate the perspectives and their points of reference.  Thus, I’ve left the names out and just included their age range.    May you find comfort in their wise words.  Should you feel compelled to respond, please don’t hesitate.

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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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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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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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