I am on an emotional high right now and it's going to be hard to sit down and dig into my Marketing paper tonight ( Read more... )

Well that was interesting. I just finished up my last chat before the holidays for my MBA program. However, instead of being the student, I was the leader. My professor was traveling and got hung up by mechanical and weather delays so she asked me to run the chat tonight. It was fun, but a challenge trying to keep track of what needed to be covered ( Read more... )

Congratulations to President-Elect Obama!!!!!

I am looking forward to his presidency. He faces many challenges, but I am confident he will not shy away from these challenges and take them head on.

We went to our latest Taekwondo tournament this weekend. It was in Sioux Falls and it was the biggest one we attended since our first tournament in St. Paul. This one went much better than St. Paul. I'm happy with my outcome and once again our older son surprised us. In Fargo he surprised us by taking first in forms. This time he won two sparring ( Read more... )

I experienced two leadership opportunities over the past couple of days ( Read more... )

I am very fortunate to work for a company that recognizes when their employees put out extra effort to help keep the company an industry leader. We recently had a project that we brought in a couple months early. The upper level management wanted this project released as soon as possible to help bring in additional revenue for the rest of the year ( Read more... )

Today our family participated in a Taekwondo tournament in Fargo, ND. Overall it went well. We traveled to the tournament on Friday and the trip up was fine. During the evening we watched some of the high-ranked black belts compete and it was interesting to see how things are different and how they are the same as colored belt competitions ( Read more... )

I have been a member of the Toastmasters club at work for the past two years. I am excited to say that I made through the 10 speech projects and have earned my Competent Communicator award from Toastmasters ( Read more... )

Older son had the first two games of his soccer tournament tonight. I missed the first game because our younger son and I had Taekwondo class but I made it to the second game. They lost the first game in a shootout. The second was also close and ended 1-1. Once again it came down to a shootout. The fifth player on our older son's team finally ( Read more... )

I know, I know. I haven't posted in a while. Been busy, busy, busy. Here's just a couple things that have been going on ( Read more... )