Monday, July 26, 2010

Download Mindmaps, Increase Productivity

posted by Chance Brown at The Mindmap Blog - 1 week ago
It used to be that mindmaps were simply about organizing your thoughts spatially with pictures and colors on a piece of paper. Of course, there is still benefit in that. The benefits of mindmapping on a si...

Monday, July 19, 2010

View from living room... St Augustine Fla.


So, we had planned on going to Cocoa Beach for our vacation. We had a 2 bedroom condo, oceanside reserved (Or so we thought) and everything was set. When we were about at the Ga/Fla line we called ahead to get check in times and found out the company had given our room away. We would have a 1 bedroom instead of 2.... Then we got there, the condo was horrible, and we decided we would do anything but stay there. We started looking around and found a house in St. Augustine and relocated there. Since the house would not be ready until Sunday we had to get a hotel Saturday night. We went to 12 different hotels to find a room after we arrived in St. Augustine and ended up in the last room of a Holiday Inn, a smoking room for 125$, thanks alot Holiday Inn.. Woke up Sunday morning and went to eat breakfast, at what turned out to be a bar. The food was horrible, I am the only one who ate what I ordered, 45$ down the drain..
Then we got to the house, and this is the view from the living room, its awesome! Vacation rescued, we love it and are finally getting to enjoy our time.

Saturday, June 5, 2010


Hall County Med-8 t-boned a passenger car during an emergency response. All F.F. were wearing seatbelts, minimal injuries.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Public ran as private.

What kind of financial picture would local gov be in right now if each department/division were operated in the same manner as a private company?
What about state government as well? If I spent 200,000.00$ on a project that was frivolous while working for a private company would I keep my job? Why do we tolerate this in local and state government?

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Mindmap of a point based career solution, promotions etc..

Embedded Notes:
Inputs: attending classes
being nominated employee of the qtr
special rec by CoD
training milestones

Outputs: points would be used toward promotions
extra time off

points could be taken away by disciplinary actions

Thursday, March 25, 2010

P/PC

The past few weeks at my job have made me reconsider something, the P/PC concept. It’s because of the difference between production and production capability, two terms used by Stephen Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Production is our ability to produce something (or in other words, our ability to do productive work), while production capability is our ability to maintain the level of production.

You see without attention to the P you loose the PC. I really do wonder who understands that? The manufacturer of my personal truck has been sending me requests for recall work to be done free of charge, for the past three years. I have put it off, time and again due to PC and now I have finally decided to get the work done because of the above....


On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless million, who, at the dawn of victory sat down to rest, and in resting, died.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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