Posts tagged as:

Sustainable

Goals Define Choices

March 12, 2010

Everything you do in life takes you closer to your goals, or further from them.
Without clearly defined goals you have no standard by which to judge your choices. Yesterday I shared four of the key choices I have made in my life over the past year. Each of those choices has brought me closer [...]

Read the full article →

Trust as Currency

March 10, 2010

Today I experienced first hand what if feels like to hold the currency that is the trust of another human being. Early in the day I learned that a new customer has chosen to go with my proposal based upon the recommendation of “Fred,” a customer I wrote about in my Regaining Trust post. Later [...]

Read the full article →

Blogging is How I Live Real, Authentic and Sustainable

March 3, 2010

It’s real because writing is the doing part of thinking.
It’s authentic because my writing comes from the heart about what’s going on in my life right now.
My life is sustainable because my thoughts turn into words which in turn become actions.
Earlier this week I had the privilege to speak at MKELive’s Ignite event. I was [...]

Read the full article →

vBlog: A Real #shoplocal Experience

February 6, 2010

Last weekend my wife Cheryl and I ventured to In Step Running and Waking Center in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward, a shop local mecca of restaurants and shops. Cheryl had come in search of new running shoes. Our salesperson Amy did such a great job properly analyzing our running shoe needs and providing multiple shoe [...]

Read the full article →

New Source of Daily Inspiration

February 1, 2010

I am often asked how I sustain a positive and upbeat attitude. Referring back to My Top 10 Personal Development Success Tips, take a look at tip #9. Everyday (Monday – Saturday) for at least the last five years and probably longer I have read Ralph Marston’s The Daily Motivator web-site. In my opinion Ralph’s [...]

Read the full article →

More Time Through Radical Thinking

January 31, 2010

If you are like me you need more time and energy to sustain all the wonderful projects and relationships in your life. Until recently my own linear thinking had me believing the conventional wisdom that time and energy are finite. Neither assumption is true. Let me explain.
Recently while loading up our bread maker (We don’t [...]

Read the full article →

Fit Milwaukee is Real, Authentic and Sustainable

January 24, 2010

I have these three friends Anne Munkwitz (@bananza), Tracey Gessner (@tmgessner) and Brennan Stehling (@BrennanMKE). Together they started Fit Milwaukee. Yesterday two teams of four people (who did not even know each other one year ago) ran a marathon relay together. Some people ran and some of us just watched and cheered them on. All [...]

Read the full article →

Life at a Conference the Real, Authentic and Sustainable way…

January 20, 2010

If you follow me on Twitter you know that recently on a moment’s notice I spoke to about 150 people on the topic of social media…what follows are my speaking notes….
1. I am Jim Raffel and most of you know me as a “color guy,” after all, my company ColorMetrix does sell the best color [...]

Read the full article →

Q: Work More or Less? A:Yes

January 18, 2010

I suspect the title of this post leaves you thinking “huh, he wants me to work more and less, how does that work?”
Well, let me explain how this works. My friend Joe, who has only known me for a few months, somehow managed to crawl inside my brain and figure out what makes me tick [...]

Read the full article →

Color & The State of Printing Industry 2010

January 1, 2010

Color & The State of the Printing Industry 2010 also appears on the  ColorMetrix Color Conversation blog.
It never ceases to amaze me how integral color knowledge is to the graphic arts industry at large, yet how few people in the industry really understand the topic. The problem is that color, like the game of chess, [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

On FacebookOn TwitterOn YouTubeRSS feed