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My Enlightened Predictions of the College Bowl Conflicts (Ignorance is bliss in this Case)

This is a REALLY long post but there are REALLY too many bowl games, and I ain’t gonna short change one. I am going to make the call on every one. I promise no in-depth analysis and in fact I let my border collie select a couple where dog mascots were involved.

College football is awesome despite the 94 bowl games.

I love college football. College basketball just has so many damn games it’s hard to know what is really important until NCAA tournament time. And pro sports are just so passionless and teamless to me. This season started out gangbusters with all those supposed top ten teams getting kicked around every weekend. Every weekend seemed to have at least one great game. Having TCU and Cincinnati going undefeated as well as each of them going out and beating some non-conference, pretty high profile teams was awesome.

So. Let’s go bowling. here are my warped view predictions for all 94 (really 34) bowl games (note: because some games are complete they are easier to predict):

New Mexico Bowl: Wyoming vs. Fresno State
It is the day of the Cowboys. Saints go down to the ‘Boys. Bulldogs wrassled to ground by Cowboys. Wyoming is so happy to be out of Wyoming they drag the game out as long as they can (unfortunately for them only two overtimes). I am not sure anyone watched the game.

St. Petersburg Bowl: Rutgers vs. Central Florida
The Scarlet Knights had to win because they were playing a religious defender role of St. Petersburg – the patron saint of blue hairs. The seniors across the United States rejoice with a Rutgers win but bemoan the cut back of Medicare in the Senate. Fair trade off for all who can remember what the trade off was in the beginning.

New Orleans Bowl: Southern Miss vs. Middle Tennessee

(Editor’s note: This prediction was written on Monday, before Middle Tenn. beat Southern Miss. 42-32.) This game is being played tonight…but…Brett Favre played at Southern Miss. Oh. And Middle Tennessee are the Blue Balls…oops…I mean Blue Raiders…huh? Southern Mississippi easy. But. Regardless. There are too many vowels in this bowl game.

Las Vegas Bowl: Brigham Young vs. Oregon State (8:00 pm EST Tue Dec 22, 2009)
Cougars versus Beavers. C’mon. No brainer. But, uh oh. Mormons visit Sin City. This looked like an easy pick judging by mascots but Oregon State recruits some “professional escorts” to be cheerleaders, BYU is significantly distracted (and actually pick out several second and third wives during the game) and the Beavers damn BYU to a loss.

Poinsettia Bowl: Utah vs. California (8:00 pm EST Wed Dec 23, 2009)
Cal attended the class that reminded them eating Poinsettias is poisonous. That gets them off on the right foot at the pregame banquet. But then the actual game arrives. Utes have arrows. Bears get shot by arrows. Bears become pincushion for Utes’ target practice and become rug in main lobby of Poinsettia headquarters.

Hawaii Bowl: SMU vs. Nevada (8:00 pm EST Thu Dec 24, 2009)
Both teams drive the road to Hilo, get stoned out of their minds on some great Hawaii grass, start wearing hula skirts and drive the trainers crazy during the game with their ongoing munchies. Mustangs cannot keep their noses out of the feedbag all game long and Nevada shakes off the grass skirts long enough to run into the end zone more than SMU to pull off the Ganja Bowl win.

Little Caesars Pizza Bowl: Ohio vs. Marshall (1:00 pm EST Sat Dec 26, 2009)
OMG. Who cares? Pizza pizza. That’s all I can say. There will be a Thundering Herd toward the closest Little Caesars after the game so they can have extra pepperoni to take the sting off of losing to a team called Ohio without State after it.

Meineke Bowl: North Carolina vs. Pittsburgh (4:30 pm EST Sat Dec 26, 2009)
C’mon. This is a no brainer. The winner gets free mufflers. North Carolina has horse & buggies. Pennsylvania makes cars. And. Pittsburgh can melt them down and rejuvenate the city economy. Oh. And let me remind everyone if Pitt had won their game against Cincinnati they would be in a BCS game. How far the Cats have fallen. But the mufflers prove motivation to drive to victory.

Emerald Bowl: Southern California vs. Boston College (8:00 pm EST Sat Dec 26, 2009)
If USC actually cares about this game, it should be an easy win. They won’t. But this is draft showcase day for USC’s 48 5-star All Americans. They will gain 6 bazillion yards. They will give up 4 bazillion yards plus 1 bazillion in unsportsmanlike showboating, stupid penalties and their seniors come out with $1 bazillion in draft day bonus money and a bowl game win.

Music City Bowl: Clemson vs. Kentucky (8:30 pm EST Sun Dec 27, 2009)
This is a cat fight. Think Faith Hill versus Shania Twain. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…okay. Back to football. Tigers versus Wildcats. I am fairly sure tigers are bigger than wildcats (too lazy to check Wikipedia). I am not really sure which is Faith and which is Shania but Kentucky woman sings the blues with a loss. (Clemson wins).

Independence Bowl: Texas A&M vs. Georgia (5:00 pm EST Mon Dec 28, 2009)
I think this game is in Shreveport. Once again I am too lazy to check. Regardless. So fans have a choice of being in Athens Georgia, College Station Texas or Shreveport Louisiana. It will be quieter than a church at an atheist convention. So if a touchdown is scored and no one is there to see it does it really count? ROTC is forced to attend so the proof goes to A&M and they get the win (even though UGA may score more).

EagleBank Bowl: Temple vs. UCLA (4:30 pm EST Tue Dec 29, 2009)
OMG. If this isn’t proof that there are too many bowl games I am not sure what is. In DC and the healthcare debate/vote/whatever is still going on, In a fit of bipartisanship the House sits on Temple’s side and the Senate on the UCLA side (and ex president Bush, both of them, do the coin flip, each getting a side insuring a Bush win). There is a deficit of points, overspending on penalties and a filibuster to keep Rick Neuheisal from any post game comments after his team pulls out a one vote win.

Champs Sports Bowl: Miami (Fla.) vs. Wisconsin (8:00 pm EST Tue Dec 29, 2009)
This is a home game for the Hurricanes (ok, Orlando is close enough). Reverting back to the ole “U” days they steal new game jerseys from all the local Champs, rock a new look just for the game, blow out the Badgers and then blame Ray Lewis, who attended the game, for being a Chump for stealing everything from Champs.

Humanitarian Bowl: Bowling Green vs. Idaho (4:30 pm EST Wed Dec 30, 2009)
I believe the Humanitarian thing to do would be to shoot yourself rather than go to this game. Both teams are so frickin unhappy to be playing in Idaho on December 28^th instead of…well…anywhere else…they do the humanitarian thing and do their best to let the other team win. Idaho gets the state’s first Nobel Peace Prize and Bowling Green gets the win and the “Super Spud” championship trophy awarded by the state of Idaho. The game is so nice Idaho refuses to accept a Bowling Green unsportsmanlike penalty because they thought the guy didn’t really mean it.

Holiday Bowl – Nebraska vs. Arizona (8:00 pm EST Wed Dec 30, 2009)
The 2009 Holiday Bowl has all the markings of a great defensive battle. In other words be prepared to be bored to death. It is quite possible this could end in a 0-0 tie. Both teams could stop the other if the other had an offense. And with no offense, well, they will take to stopping fans from going out and getting more beer. The tie breaker? Easy. Nebraska players in San Diego for a week before the game. Needless to say their energy will be sapped and they give up a late 63 yard field goal to lose the game after neither team moves the ball from the 50 yard line all game long.

Sun Bowl: Stanford vs. Oklahoma (2:00 pm EST Thu Dec 31, 2009)
This should have been the best bowl game of all. The best young quarterback (Andrew Luck) versus the best quarterback in NCAA (Bradford). Unfortunately neither will be playing so it just turns out to be two good teams playing each other. The Sooners will realize Toby Gerhart is a truck, albeit a brilliant astro physicist truck. The boomer sooner wagon would be easier to stop than Toby. Oh. And the Cardinal remind us Oklahoma cannot win a bowl game.

Armed Forces Bowl: Air Force vs. Houston (12:00 pm EST Thu Dec 31, 2009)
New Years Eve. Houston would rather be out drinking. In addition because they pass 150 times a game this game starts on New Year’s Eve and ends January 2nd. Sometime on the 1^st the Cougar players revolt, start drinking jager bombs on the sideline and Air Force ends up flying by the Cougars in their wacky wishbone fighter plane to take this one in a long drawn out game that makes everyone want to start drinking or join the Army.

Texas Bowl: Missouri vs. Navy (3:30 pm EST Thu Dec 31, 2009)
As soon as Missouri gets into Texas they start having nightmares with Longhorns and Red Raiders and don’t sleep a wink before the game. Then the Midshipmen sail out with their destroyer option game plan and Missouri decides it would be easier to sleep then figure it out. Navy drowns the Tigers in a sea of fake handoffs and gimmick plays where anyone has a chance to run the ball.

Insight Bowl: Minnesota vs. Iowa State (6:00 pm EST Thu Dec 31, 2009)
Here is an insight. Cyclones never appear in December. Uh oh. Next insight. The gopher doesn’t appear until February. Holy shit. No team shows up. They play the game in a computer simulation. Multiple times so the fans can watch the scoreboard and drink. Cyclones win 51% of the time. There you go. Insight proves its computer savviness.

Chick-fil-A Bowl: Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee (7:30 pm EST Thu Dec 31, 2009)

Here’s the deal. Virginia Tech is good. Tennessee is not. Despite the fact I am still unclear what a Hokie is, their uniforms are always interestingly odd. Assume the Tennessee Volunteers let a Hokie block a kick or two while Lane Kiffin is sending a cheerleader over to talk to a recruit and then Michael Vick shows the Hokies all the Atlanta hot spots to celebrate afterwards (bonus prediction: Hokies end up on probation in 2010 but Vick is allowed to return to finish his degree and leads them to the “Lassie where have you Gone” Bowl in 2010).

Outback Bowl: Northwestern vs. Auburn (11:00 am EST Fri Jan 1, 2010)
The weather is great so no fans show up for the first half (so they reset the scoreboard to zero zero and do a do-over). At half time both locker rooms get choice of all you can eat bloomin’ onions or house salad. The Tigers (or War Eagles whichever you want) feast on fried onions and carb up. The pansy ass smartys of the Big Ten (really 11) choose house salad (with fat free dressing). It’s not even close. Auburn takes Northwestern out back and gives ‘em a good lickin.

Gator Bowl: Florida State vs. West Virginia (1:00 pm EST Fri Jan 1, 2010)
This bowl is Bobby Bowden’s retirement party. Who cares? (and his biggest fan is Lou Holtz which is kinda the kiss of death). Anyway. Bobby has an ACC team (remember, he was smoking everyone before they joined the ACC). Nuff said. Florida State sucks. West Virginia is actually pretty good. Mountaineers give Bobby’s moon a good shine as a going away present.

Capital One Bowl: Penn State vs. LSU (1:00 pm EST Fri Jan 1, 2010)
Lions and Tigers oh my. Besides this being one of the best match-ups of the major bowls, the differences between the vanilla Paterno and the moose tracks Miles makes this better than a trip to Baskin Robbins (which means it is worth watching). I think it comes down to the last series. Luckily Les Miles is away looking for his hat (which he left on a bathroom break) so time management is all good and the Tigers beat the Lions. Oh my. Bring on the bears.

Rose Bowl: Ohio State vs. Oregon (4:30 pm EST Fri Jan 1, 2010)
The only thing in question in this game is what in the world the Ducks will be wearing when they show up? Probably something so god awful Tressell will want to make a sweater vest design for the following season. Ducks eat Buckeyes in Ohio I believe. That alone makes it an easy pick. The quack attack snacks buckeye nuts all game long. And Big Ten loses another in California.

Sugar Bowl: Florida vs. Cincinna
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The Bearcats are as good as any team you have never seen (and I have never seen a Bearcat either). But. Urban Meyer, while he may chafe you like an unwashed pair of underwear, can coach. Plus. Cincinnati doesn’t have a coach. Bearcats slip in the swamp and become gator bait. (but this should be a good game). Onward Christian soldier. Gators win.

International Bowl: South Florida vs. Northern Illinois (12:00 pm EST Sat Jan 2, 2010)
If including North and South is international then I guess I can go along with it. Anyway. Bulls against Huskies. If this were the Iditarod I would go with the Huskies. Plus. Northern Illinois wears red. Red pisses bulls off. Bulls gore the Huskies.

Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi (2:00 pm EST Sat Jan 2, 2010)
Stillwater and Oxford go to the Big D. I think the big city lights may blind the Cowboys and Rebels a little. The scary part is they both got guns. In Oxford they know the South really won the war because the Rebs were the best shots. I think they prove it and win a good ole shootout in the Big D.

PapaJohns.com Bowl: Connecticut vs. South Carolina (2:00 pm EST Sat Jan 2, 2010)
So. When the folk from Connecticut get to Birmingham they will realize they ain’t in Kansas no more that’s fo’ sho. Then with all the free Papa Johns coupons they get they start walking in and ordering “pies” and getting apple pie and get even more confused. Fortunately for them the ole ball coach has no desire coaching teams in a Birmingham bowl game. Huskies get several orders of Gamecock wings and chow down.

Liberty Bowl: East Carolina vs. Arkansas (5:30 pm EST Sat Jan 2, 2010)
Skip Holtz is a good coach. Petrino is better. And Ryan Mallet is the real deal. Anyway. Eddie Money plays the half time show and I think the pirates may need a break from chasing Razorback receivers who were “shakin’ (Eddie Money reference) all over the place. In the end I think the pirate ship gets stuck on Mud Island and the Razorbacks get the booty.

Alamo Bowl: Michigan State vs. Texas Tech (9:00 pm EST Sat Jan 2, 2010)
The Red Raiders football team scores more points than its basketball team. If this were a basketball game the edge would go to the Spartans. Unfortunately this game is on a gridiron. There may not be enough numbers on the scoreboard as Texas Tech passes for 8 touchdowns and 800 yards. Oh. And minus 1 rushing.

Fiesta Bowl: Boise State vs. TCU (8:00 pm EST Mon Jan 4, 2010)
Broncos and Horned Frogs (although I have learned it isn’t really a frog so that helps). Against any other team I would give the Broncos the edge but the Horned Frogs are out to prove their version of purple is the hot winter fashion color. It’s hard to argue with fashion statements even if they are on frogs. Frogs hop over Broncos with a win.

Orange Bowl: Iowa vs. Georgia Tech (8:00 pm EST Tue Jan 5, 2010)
Cattle farmers versus Engineers. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…if this were wrestling there would be no debate. Unfortunately the engineers run an offense you need a blueprint to be able to understand. Cattle farmers don’t read blueprints. They have oxen named Blue. That’s it. Yellow Jackets buzz along to an easy win.

GMAC Bowl: Central Michigan vs. Troy (7:00 pm EST Wed Jan 6, 2010)
WTF. This game is played on the 6^th between the Orange Bowl and the championship game. GMAC cannot make a car but they sure can negotiate a sponsorship deal. The Chippewas do have a good quarterback and I know nothing about Troy except that I didn’t like Brad Pitt in the movie. Also going in the Chippewa favor is the recent ruling to award American Indians 3.4 billion dollars as restitution from 225 years ago. If they aren’t out partying with the money, they win this game easy.

BCS National Championship – Alabama vs. Texas (8:00 pm EST Thu Jan 7, 2010)
Good news for Texas. They don’t have a pass defense. Alabama will come out throwing what they call passes but everyone else calls groundballs in another sport. The bad news for Texas. Mack Brown is their coach. Nick Saban can coach. At halftime he will remember he has the second coming of Bronko Nagurski at running back. Texas completes a gazillion passes and gets 1 touchdown out of it. Alabama completes 2 out 25 but the 2 are touchdowns. And Bronko Ingram runs into, over and thru Texas for 1000 yards. Bama wins.

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judgement, judging failure needs context, judgment is not easy, juggling versus balancing, Just think about it, just this once, keeping your feet on the ground, kindness in words creates confidence, knowing what is right, knowing what is right is not enough, knowledge, Knowledge and experience, Knowledge and experience can only take you so far, lack of alignment, lack of responsibility, lack of self confidence, lacking hope, laws rules and ethics, laws rules and ethics in business, lazy decision making, lazy or shallow thinking versus invested thinking, lazy thinkers, lazy thinking, lazy way to outline expectations, leaders and character, leaders are still and active, leaders have strength of character, leadership, leadership split, leading, learn and listen, learn to resign with good grace all that you are not, learning, learning begets more enlightened ignorance, learning more about having a soul in business, learning the difference between these two things, less important to do things first then to do things right, less than perfect, less than zero, lessons, lessons learned through their eyes as a child, lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone, letting go is difficult, letting go is not simple, lies, lies and truth, lies the trouble in dealing with a shallow thinker, lies will win, life, life formulas, life gives you a bazillion second chances, life is a ragged diagonal, life is a string of minutes, life is a struggle, life is a winding road, life is about making choices, life is about risk and return, life is complex, life is not a mission, life is not a straight line, life is not as simple as it seems, life is often not lived best gently, life is tough, life is tricky, life lessons, life not defined by meeting objectives, life thoughts, Life truths, life’s untruths, life’s white lies, lift it onto a higher level, listening, listening and learning, listening and responding, listening to choices, listening to friends, literally an elephant in the room, little failures versus big failures, live life to the fullest, living life backwards but still question, locate that part of ourselves, logic & illogical, logical decision making, logical to one may be illogical to another, logical versus illogical, logical versus the illogical, longer you wait to deliver a result the higher the expectations, look for objections to changing, looking beyond material rewards, lose an opportunity to help lift society to a higher level, losing sight of effect management can have, losing the chance to appreciate the whole truth, losing your soul, lot of athletes don’t want to hear, lot of athletes don’t want to hear at this stage in their lives, love a good debate and discussion, love college football, lying to your friends, lying to yourself, maintain autonomy, maintaining relevance globally, majority actually kind of gets grumpy, majority of people, make the hard decisions, make their truth exciting and new, make up your own mind using common sense, make weaknesses irrelevant, makes people suggestible and docile, making a living doing something other than playing basketball, making changes personally, making choices, making the best choice you can, making the hard choice, making the people who need to believe, making your own decisions, management, management be accountable, management by exception, management is about human beings, managers, managing an organization, managing attitudes, managing people, managing people to be successful in life and business, managing perceptions, managing perceptions and Chesty Puller, Managing perceptions of how you are getting the shit done, managing transitional moments, mankind progresses through thought, many participants to self-administer an electric shock, marines, marketing, Maslow, maslow and decisions, masters of unsaid words, match up their own experiences, matters is the shaping of attitudes, maybe business isn't all about ‘high living, maybe it is better to admit we failed at something, maybe life is not that complicated, maybe the world is a better place to live, McTague questionable wisdom, meaningful ideas, means 98+% of college athletes never play professionally, measurement of failure, measuring generational attitudes, measuring generational behavior, measuring life, mediocre ethical behavior, meeting the challenges of concentration, message is worth listening to, message that a lot of coaches don’t want to send, messages must be the truth, messages we put on those pages, messaging, metaphors for some human extreme or flaw, minority majority paradox, moments are like a balance sheet, moments of passion, money does not have a soul, moral compass, moral depravity, moral fiber, moral or immoral, moral people will slide down the slippery slope of mediocre ethical behavior, moral responsibility, morality of marketing & advertising, more honest online, most important factor in affecting our lives is our thoughts, most things in life are not black or white, motivated by a desire to achieve, motivation, multiple agendas, murphy and finagle, murphy’s law, my ethical barometer, name in the advertising business, name with respect, ncaa, need to fire this kid's ass because, need to think a little bit harder, nefarious conspirator to hide is inside a conspiracy theory, never a good ingredient in the formula for happiness, Never argue with stupid people, new knowledge, new thinking, next generation of thinkers, next on our to do list, no action ignore the buzz space, no bigger fuckup in this world than the way we mangle the environment, no ideas, no lazy thinking, no longer have a coherent grasp of reality, no need to make up something new, no one says you failed any more, no one wants to trust chaos, no substitute for judgment, no such thing as global idea, nobody’s life is perfect, nonsense cherished by the wisest men, not a cultural trend issue, not a quantity of words person, NOT a reflection of cultural trends, not all big ideas are good ideas, not all opinions are created equal, Not all solutions, not all solutions are created equal, not always right, not everyone can give good advice, not going to be suggesting college athletes are dumb, not good like one out of a hundred, not having enough time to, not just follow in our footsteps, not knowledgeable enough to do anything better, not likely to lead to a career, not meeting an objective is not failure, not overthinking, Not the power to brainwash overnight, not thinking certain things, not truth, not willing to think about this on your own, not within the law, Nothing I hate more than hasty problem solving, nothing is original, now is the time to listen, numbers are facts, numbers are facts crap, numbers are facts nonsense, numbers are not accountable, numbers can play a role, numbers have a role, numbers show possibilities, numbers will confess anything, obligation to do, obligation to do the right thing, Observational Evidence., obsessed with time and maximizing it, odds are you are not unique, odds are your opinion isn’t equal, offered him on the market, offering solutions, often they cannot protect their thoughts from, oices that look easy are complicated, once doubt enters it takes on huge proportions, one foot in history one foot in future, One of those truly unequivocal truths, one person can save an entire organization from a terrible fate, one step at a time, ones who speak to our moral soul, ongoing search for the right words, only 1.2% of college basketball players will be drafted, only few find the way, Only people are moral or immoral, only to find you're different in some small way, open our minds, opinions and thinking, Opinions drive ratings, optimism, optomistically cynical, ordinary life with extraordinary responsibilities, ordinary people don’t think they are remarkable, organization not aligned, organizational, organizational behavior, organizational conformity, organizations, organizations are living orgamisms, organizing chaos, original ideas, original ideas are typically nuances of existing, our minds create, our obsession with time, over 50% of Americans do not drink, overall point of view on climate change in USAToday, pain of thinking, paradise gained, paradise is there if you look, part attitude and a lot of behavior, partner, partnership, pay attention to your moral compass, peak moments of clarity, peer pressure makes any time wasting, pendulum of trust and doubt, people are moral or immoral, people confuse process and disciplined thinking, people hated being left to think, people need help, people need some ideology, people need to take a view to face all problems, people say stupid shit on occasion, people who give best advice have been through the most, people with more wisdom. people who have experienced more, perfection is crap, perfection is the thief, perfection procrastination, persistently curious, person requires a special character, Personal & Nonsensical, personal business ethics, personal creative destruction, personal mental imprints based on experience, personal thoughts, perspective can help with the complex, perspective of childhood dreams, philosophical thoughts, placed his hopes, plain packaging for everyone, Plain packets for everything, play an incredibly high level of basketball, play this trick, Pluralism both in society, poking holes in conventional wisdom and faux science and conspiracy theories, positively affecting society, power actually resides, power of words, powerful words, predictions, present possibilities for the human race, pressure to maximize time is actually leading to minimizing time, prioritizing actions, prioritizing what is right or wrong, problem is so pervasive, process, process is a means to an end, Production and consumption are two different things, productivity, Professional communicators also make choices, Professional doesn’t have to mean the NBA, profit emphasis, progress and improvement for an individual’s mind, proof that global warming is a real issue, proper method for hastening the decay of error, providing perspective, purposeful fragmentation, pursue or find our destination, pursuing the way, put failing in perpsective, putting pressure on yourself with to-do lists, quality versus quantity online, quest for purpose, questioning everything, questioning the unquestionable, quite surprised to see how often common sense, quotations, quotes, random act of kindness, randomness of life, Rants and Observations 2010 when I wrote about climate change, rarely non-debatable absolutes, rational thinking is overrated, reach for the stars, reaching any solution, real action steps, Reality is tough, reality shows us that it is an uneasy relationship, really good ideas are rare, REALLY too many bowl games, reason for being, Reason seldom works, reason to believe, recent Public Policy Polling survey conducted, recognize real truths, reduce men to intellectual uniformity, reduce people to intellectual uniformity, reflection of the pace of modern life, Reflective thinking, regrets, regulating affairs of mankind, related to prevent or to stop, relationships, remember a conspiracy theory, remind them of responsibility, represent the hope to fulfill the dreams, research, resilience, resiliency, resiliency and character, respect, respect for individual choice, respect to business management, responsibilities of being a parent and an adult, responsibility, Responsibility assumes you are neither impotent nor harmless, responsibility if you are in business, responsibility in business, responsibility in HOW you do what you do, responsibility is a burden, Responsibility is responsibility, responsible for an entire business, responsible for survival instincts, restless consistency, results, results achieved, results is management criteria, right but wrong, right is right, right words, rise above our habitual ways of thinking, risk something to achieve a dream, role of internet, Rules cannot cover every situation, running a business, running a busniness, safe, salvtion by society, say it is happening when it isn’t, say thanks and get a shrug, say that something is happening when it is, saying it is fine when it is not, saying the right words, scared, science of climate change remains unsettled, Scientists are asking businesses, seamlessly step into, see within the circumstances, see your own reality, seeing the other side of choice, seek out events without fear, seek out the genius in the ordinary, seek to make someone speechless on occasion, seek truth, seeking, seeking the way of truth, Select bulk action Filter by date Filter by category 41 items « ‹ Select Page of 3 › » List View Excerpt View Select All Title Author Categories Tags Date SEO Title SEO Description SEO Keywords Select, self actualization, self doubt, self esteem through problem solving, self truth, self worth, self-bias phenomenon, Selling stuff doesn’t matter, selling your soul, Selling Your Soul event in NYC, serious life decluttering, shades of gray, Shallow opinions, Shallow opinions are really really hard to defend against, shallow opinions tend to have really sharp edges, shallow sharp edged opinions, shallow thinkers, shapers of society, shapes society, share some thoughts about managing perceptions, shared ideas, shared ideas and offered philosophical thoughts, sharing experiences, sharing opinions, sharp insights are best, shirking responsibility, short term concentration capabilities, shortcomings leading to consequences, significant amount of pressure on business ethics, significant cause of dramatic warming, silly expectations, simplicity in life, simplicity seems too chaotic, simplifying to make choices easier, simplistically pigeonhole the discussion, simply do your bes, simply do your best, simply illogical behavior cancelling out illogical behavior, simply look around and view it, sincere people must understand, Sincerity, six impossible things before breakfast, skepticism, skeptics, slippery slope, slippery slope of despair, slippery slope of I am not fine, slippery surface of irrelevant brilliance, slowing down actually makes us more ethical, small gestures in trivial looking moments, smallest actions contribute, smelled of simply trying to impress others, Smoking doesn't kill everyone, so busy measuring public opinion, so much to do I can barely keep my head above water, So shines a good deed in a weary world, social perfection, social priorities to economic priorities, social responsibility, society consents, society consents to have its choice narrowed, society will lose, soft choices, solid foundation of a variety of learnings, solved the problem, solving problems, some dark & forbidding, Some moments in life make you speechless, some of my realities become dreams, Some solutions are beautiful, some solutions are ugly, some widely held perceptions, someone who has crappy instincts, something more important than fear, something to think about, sometimes produce completely irrational results, sometimes stop us choosing wisely, sometimes systems work that should not work, sometimes the illogical occurs, sooner or later some decent soul gets screwed, sorting out the truth, soul in business, soul is defined by a combination of fame & fortune, soul of another is a dark forest, sounds purposeless, soyoufailed.com, spans capitalism, speak after listening, speaking, specialist, specific proof of behavior, speechless, speechless. finding the right words at the right time, spiral of loneliness and despair, spoke truth and shared ideas, Spur of the moment unplanned comment, stand for something within yourself, standing on the uncertainty pedestal, standing up every time we fall down, start thinking about what could be, statistical decision theory, statistics, statistics cannot make the decision for you, statistics getting in the way of a good decision, statistics of death, stay or go, still be debating climate change, still crazy debate over, stimulus, stimulus reponse, stop and think, straight lines, straight lines are rare in life, strategy, strength against adversity, strength of character, strength of character to make change, stressful decisions, strip away the undoable and identify the doable, Stronger than any lie, struggle between energy and indolence, struggle between vitality and decay, student athlete, Stuff I Like, stumble upon doing it right, stunning grace in the face of overwhelming life, subconscious influences behavior, subconscious is really a place of super-fast data processing, succeeds in influencing people’s minds, such a thing as a climatologist, Super Bowl of denial versus skepticism versus calamity harbingers, supposed top ten teams getting kicked around every weekend, swallowing nonsense, symbolic dynamics, symptom of a larger problem, systems remain stagnant, tactics, take revenge on doubters, talking, talking about business ethics in the abstract, tangled ball of string, tangled up people, teaching every man to think for himself, teens, telling the truth is not impossible, that i will be tomorrow, that is a truth, the answers are within you, the antichrist bigfoot and global warming, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, the art of procrastinating, the best advice is priceless, the climate change proof, the competitive edge to being mindful, the core of your business character, the day I cried about thinking, the discussion is a solution, the experts are confusing, the grocery shopper, the issues are confusing, the law says is right or legal, The life which is unexamined is not worth living, the majority minority paradox, the minority majority relationships, The moment you lose perspective you have lost, the moments that render you speechless, the moments that words fail, the moments where words fail me, the moral depravity of capitalism, the morally corrupt, the morally corrupt advertising, The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere, the most powerful weapon in life is not a mission, the myth of original, the myth of the proprietary process, the new realities, the numbers told me what to do, the odd moment of beauty where time is not the same, the ragged aspect will not bother you as much, the randomness of life, the really smartest people, the subconscious, the truth is complicated, the uncomfortable fact, the word failure is tough love, the world is always changing, their heads and hearts, their strength is derived from their single task, there are no words, there is a consequence, There is a crack in everything, there is no formula for good choices, there is still some good to be found, they will drag you down to their level, thinking, thinking and talking, thinking harder, thinking impossible things, thinking is an unhappy experience without results, thinking is good, thinking is hard, thinking is messy, thinking too much, this i am today, this is murky territory, this post is about getting ahead, this sounds pretty common sense, this stage in their lives, thomas jefferson, thorn in the side of evil, those that believe nothing they are told, thought about responsibility in business, thought about their opinions, thoughtful and relevant, thoughts, thoughts initiate action, thoughts initiate action and progress, thoughts just get bent out of shape, thrive on dreams and possibilities, time, time and choices, Time pressure enhances the odds someone will make a less ethical, To avoid such confusion, to be sure of you, to slay a dragon you need to believe in dragons, today's world, today's world that sounds purposeless., too often we offer flippant opinions, torture numbers, torture numbers to make them tell the story, torturing numbers, training is woefully lacking, training means results, transactional branding, transformational people, trapped by fear, tries to create dissatisfaction, trivial moments, trivial moments in bigger life, true, truly falsely managing perceptions, trust, trust and doubt embodies people, Trust can be objective and subjective, Trust one side too much and it dulls, truth, truth about truth, truth and expectations, truth and lies, truth goggles, truth has never been more difficult to discern, truth in facts, truth is rarely simple, truth is slower than lies, Truth is truth, truth is what really happened, truth or lies, truth or nothing, Truth that while there are moral and immoral people in the world, truth to oneself, truth versus lies, truth versus made up stuff, Trying to make them unhappy is difficult, trying to preserve will lead to stagnation, tweak the components of the solution, tween strength, uncertainty is a bitch, uncertainty takes on geometric proportions, unclear leader, uncomfortable but necessary conversation, undermanned and underprepared to uncover stories, understand the realities, understand the realities of what that looks like, understanding what the consumer wants, understanding what you do as an organization, unequivocal fact or truth, unequivocal global warming skeptic, unfocused leaders, uninformed participate, unintended results, uninterrupted thinking as a horrible experience, unquestionable, unrealistic expectations, unshakeable, unstructured, untainted by personal wealth objectives, untangling people, until we meet again, Until you live it you may not understand, uped by selective truths and speculative thinking, Upton Sinclair, use your imagination, used for evil purpose, using data out of fear, very much like interviewing, vibrantly alive in repose, vision, voice of the public conscience, voices of a generation, wacky wisdom, waiting or living, walk in our footsteps, walking beyond our own footsteps, warners, warning, warped view predictions, waste of valuable time, wasted energy worrying, we actually waste a shitload of time, we all fail, we all have the same amount of time, we also die, we invest so much time trying to manage time, we may not be working hard enough, We should all seek to make someone speechless on occasion, What are my chances, what are we going to do with the times in which we live, what can be deeper than truth, what do you do when you get what you want, What do you think the chances are, what I know opinions, what is management, what is management drucker, what is right and what is wrong, what is the alternative, what is the place of words, what looks like chaos, what society perceives, what we are seeking explanations, what we have is not what we need, what we need is impossible to get, what we need to get us through, what we want is not what we need, what you do with your time, whatever it takes, whatever it takes to cross that dark bridge, where danger can look divine, where do I go from here?, where it might go, which are for sale, WHICH end justifies the means, who speak to our moral soul, why not all the way, wide range of attitudes and beliefs, will take a lot of work, woefully inadequate data, words, words can be weapons, words reflecting experiences, words that become deeds, Words to think about, words worse than nothing unless they do something, work hard and good things will happen myth, work is often up to people, work nevertheless, working on a problem, world economy will be fine, world is full of cowards eager to believe, world of consensus and collaboration, worry about implementing a great idea versus protecting it, yhprum’s law, you are not a failure because you fail, you can solve that kind of problem, you cannot dwell on every moment that slipped by, you fail, you're telling me there's a chance

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