THE DREAM IN ACTION

Map from 10/24/07 – fires were still growing My family is safe and away from danger from the San Diego wildfires.  Thank you to all of those who were concerned. Please pray for all those who were affected whether it was a lost home or just a few days of missed work or school.  It was a [...]

Given the recent kudos I gave to Google, you could probably have guessed that I am in full support of the recent discussion between Verizon and Google regarding a mobile phone partnership.  Verizon is in deliberations about carrying a mobile phone that would be customized to Google’s soon to come mobile OS.  Verizon, the second [...]

Gmail, hands down the best internet based email provider, is stepping it up yet another notch.  They will be adding an easy to use contact manager, more keyboard short-cuts and a quicker way to search for and pull messages which will speed up the performance of the tool. Phenomenal. On the Gmail blog they state: “Even on [...]

  Today I read in the Wall Street Journal about the increasing cost of babysitting. The avg. cost of babysitting has rising 39% percent over the last 5 years, much faster than the general inflation rate.  The cost of a babysitter is not something I hope to have to worry about for some time but [...]

I receive a short career help and motivation tip once a week from a friends father. Every week it helps me to refocus on my job and more important the quality of the job I’m doing at my job. Peter Berner is inspiring, motivational and thought provoking. This weeks CAREER MOMENT is worth sharing… From CAREER MOMENTS by Peter Berner Here’s my weekly [...]

If you are familiar with Lifehack.com’s “Mind Hack” posts this is the first Mind Hack post for ActionsTalk.com.  I hope that this changes the way that you approach decision making and benefits you in you career and your life. Decision making is one of the most important skills an individual can learn.  People say that [...]

Jott.com“gott” me very excited. It is a start up that allows you to voice record messages and send them as text messages to the people in your contact list.  It took me about 10 minutes to set up the account and it took me about 5 more minutes to set up the ability to Jott [...]

Cha-Ching… Today it was announced that Microsoft is to invest $240 million in Facebook and expand their existing relationship into international markets.  The $240 million is less than a 2% stake in Facebook.  I just wonder what Zuckerberg and pals are going to do with the other 98%?  Read more at TechCrunch.

This city (NYC) truly is a great example of what we as humans are capable of accomplishing. There are dreams walking these streets. There are dreamers walking these streets.  New York City is truly an incubator for hopes and dreams.  The “American Dream” as cliche as it may sound thrives in New York City.  The [...]

So, looking back at the Homecoming weekend, it was pretty much perfect.  Had the opportunity to see some bro’s that I’d not seen a quite some time, didn’t think about work for a second, and for a minute or two there I really thought I was back in college. Everything that I went there to [...]

Q: What is your great opportunity Ryan… A: Well, I can’t go into it in detail… for very un-obvious reasons, how every I think that if a person our age is presented a great opportunity it is foolish for that person to not take FULL advantage of it… I’ll expand on this later, when I feel comfortable… I understand [...]

  Yesterday was Blog Action Day.  An organized effort by over 15,000 bloggers to discuss different ways to give back to Mother Earth.  It was a day to post  something related to giving back to the environment and being “green”.  Obviously, I missed it.  I was a day late but I’m still going to try and make [...]

If it takes more than this poster to motivate you, try this… Yossi Vardi, (an original investor in ICQ) quoted a Theodore Roosevelt speech from 1910 in a discussion held a TechCrunch40 last month to draw a parallel to today’s entrepreneur.             “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out [...]

    Homecoming weekend is very appropriately named.  After four short years in college I think most of all feel a sense of comfort, a “hominess” toward the place we called college, and rightfully so.  Let’s be honest…it’s not like our lifestyle was difficult in any sense of the word.  Over the last 2 years of college [...]

Apples new version of the MAC OS version 10.5 called “Leopard” is due for release this month.  It looks like the release will occur sometime around the 26th of October.  This is definitely a huge factor in waiting to buy a new machine.  If you’ve followed ActionsTalk you probably know that I’ll be buying a [...]