THE DREAM IN ACTION

Happy Guy Fawkes Day.    “Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up King and Parliament. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he [...]

           A few great images that remind me of my fantastic trip to Ireland in August 2007. Left to right from top: (Galway harbor, Dingle Bay sunset, coastal drive outside Dingle, Aran Island fort wall, flower garden in Tralee, Kylemore Abbey)

  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 [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

How productive is it to have one place that you go to work everyday.  I sit in the same place everyday as many people do during their work day and I’m actually in a very good situation. I work on the 29th floor of a building in Chicago’s loop and I sit right on a [...]

What if we built out the actionstalk.com forum for us to discuss theories, ideas, and inspirations just like we do now and slowly built it out into a community of aspiring entrepreneurs to discuss anything along those lines. Getting good hits on the Internet is all about building a community of like minded or like [...]