Already May?

Where does the time fly?

It seems like I was just get­ting ready for the new year!

Here we are the 7th of May. What have I accom­plished so far? Seems like I have been very busy & what have I accom­plished? Where do I stand with what my plans were for the year?

I like to take this time to take an inven­tory & to reset my course if needed. One of my major goals was to revamp CBC & bring it up to date & make it a site that inspires my clients. Not just a site that is for infor­ma­tion gath­er­ing only. I am about a month behind on that and have taken action with a good start. I am refo­cus­ing my plan to have the site com­pleted by the end of May. I want to start fresh in June.

My other desire was to build my graph­ics busi­ness & bring my cre­ativ­ity to a new level. I feel that is being bet­ter than I knew to wish for. I am very excited with my graphic endeav­ors! No to push my cre­ativ­ity to a whole new level! Thank you Lynda.com for your won­der­ful train­ing videos that sup­port me. I have taken my skill lev­els to places I never thought pos­si­ble from work­ing with Lynda’s train­ing videos from adobe prod­ucts to how to full use my Mac products…

Now my first project next week is to take my under­stand­ing of the hosted Word­Press to a whole new level for a client… How excit­ing & scary!!!!

Cre­ate a won­der­ful day!

Tim

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Creating Custom Graphics

One of the ser­vices we pro­vide here at CBC
is cre­at­ing cus­tom graph­ics to your basic ideas.
We work with you to cre­ate a look that rep­re­sents you.

This is a fun process that can change quite rad­i­cally dur­ing the cre­ation. Here is a recent example.

Here is the orig­i­nal that we started with. We work with you from your nap­kin designs to an old logo as in this case…

Our 1st look from our clients orig­i­nal sample:

Here is what we ended up with for now… As with any cre­ative process, we are con­stantly in tran­si­tion & growth…

I love to inte­grate your brand­ing with your web­site to cre­ate a seam­less look for you on the web…

Cre­ate a won­der­ful day… Tim

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Updating the CBC Website & Branding

A New Look for CBC

The New CBC Logo

 

Toni & I spent the week­end cre­at­ing a new logo & updat­ing the CBC web­site & con­tent. Well, we are still work­ing on the content!

I have wanted to do this for months & finally I took the time to do it. Love to get your feedback!

Cre­ate a won­der­ful day, TnT

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The Transformation of US Health Care

I am cur­rently work­ing on an amaz­ing book by Dr. Mary Zen­nett on The Trans­for­ma­tion of US Health Care.

Health for US ALL

Health for US ALL ~ The Transformation of US Health CareIn the process of for­mat­ting the book for PDF & ePub dis­tri­b­u­tion, I have had the chance to really read this book. Wow! Dr. Mary you have cov­ered the sub­ject com­pletely & clearly that even a lay­man like me can really under­stand there cause & effects of our health care pro­gram in this coun­try! You also give us some very clear guide­lines on how to solve these prob­lems & cre­ate a health care sys­tem that works for everyone.

I will let you know when we have Dr. Mary’s book avail­able on iBooks, Ama­zon & Barnes & Noble for your eRead­ers. Dr. Mary is one of the most ded­i­cated peo­ple I know. Let’s sup­port her in mak­ing a difference.

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Empowering Ourselves for 2012 by Lee Harris

This is a beau­ti­ful video by Lee Har­ris on the poten­tial for change in a pos­i­tive trans­for­ma­tion in 2012.

I am shar­ing this video to sup­port you to live your success…

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The tradition of wassailing

 The tra­di­tion of was­sail­ing
(pro­nounced to rhyme with fossil-ing)is hardly a new one.

wassailing potIn cen­turies past, was­sail­ers went from door to door, singing and drink­ing to the health of their neigh­bors. The con­cept actu­ally harkens back to pre-Christian fer­til­ity rites — only in those cer­e­monies, vil­lagers trav­eled through their fields and orchards in the mid­dle of win­ter, singing and shout­ing to drive away any spir­its that might inhibit the growth of future crops. As part of this, they poured wine and cider on the ground to encour­age fer­til­ity in the crops. Con­tinue read­ing

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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

Francis Pharcellus ChurchBy Fran­cis P. Church, first pub­lished in The New York Sun in 1897.
[See The People’s Almanac, pp. 1358–9.]

 We take plea­sure in answer­ing thus promi­nently the com­mu­ni­ca­tion below, express­ing at the same time our great grat­i­fi­ca­tion that its faith­ful author is num­bered among the friends of The Sun:

 Dear Edi­tor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my lit­tle friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

 Vir­ginia O’Hanlon

 Vir­ginia, your lit­tle friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skep­ti­cism of a skep­ti­cal age. They do not believe except they see. They think that noth­ing can be which is not com­pre­hen­si­ble by their lit­tle minds. All minds, Vir­ginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are lit­tle. In this great uni­verse of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intel­lect as com­pared with the bound­less world about him, as mea­sured by the intel­li­gence capa­ble of grasp­ing the whole of truth and knowl­edge. Con­tinue read­ing

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Thank You Glenda

Glenda Green

Glenda GreenI have just com­pleted the 1st phase of a project with Glenda. We cre­ated a beau­ti­ful web­site, Christ Bless­ing that is a show­case for the beau­ti­ful gifts Glenda brings to all of us through Jeshua and her skill as an artist & author.

As I said in an ear­lier blog, I am so lucky to work with the won­der­ful peo­ple that come to me. Thank you Glenda!

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I am so Blessed

Grat­i­tude, the Grease that Turns the Universe

The Separation In Life

Sit­ting here on a beau­ti­ful Sun­day morn­ing, I have been think­ing about how lucky I am. First, another day to live this won­der­ful life expe­ri­ence. My amaz­ing fam­ily & friends… My daugh­ter Zöe & her boyfriend made it home safely after an adven­tur­ous trip in our friendly skies.

I started think­ing about my clients & how lucky I am to have these won­der­ful peo­ple as friends & clients. Most peo­ple want to sep­a­rate their pro­fes­sional life from their per­sonal life. That’s the way we have been trained. Also when you have a job like being in law enforce­ment, gov­ern­ment or some form of respon­si­bil­ity for oth­ers, some­times you want to sep­a­rate those worlds. ‘I don’t want to bring the stress of my job home’ is a com­mon say­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, this is impos­si­ble & that is why fam­ily & friends are so impor­tant for us. If we want to sep­a­rate our lives that means we are stuff­ing our feel­ings & emo­tions. There is an old adage, ‘What we resist, per­sists.’ So the more we stuff, the more our emo­tions & feel­ings come out and most of the time not in a way that is con­ducive to keep­ing a relationship.

I am blessed in that I have no sep­a­ra­tion between who I am & what I do.

How is this work­ing out in your life?

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The Importance of “Following Up”

Why is ‘Fol­low­ing Up’ important?

What do you think?

for a better worldWhat do I mean when I say ‘Fol­low Up’ & why is it important.

In this mod­ern world, we are all inun­dated with infor­ma­tion and audio/visual noise. Many of us have learned to insu­late our­selves from this noise and we call it ”Cocoon­ing”. This is why ‘Word of Mouth’ or ‘Direct Sales’ has become so suc­cess­ful. This is also why ‘Social Media’ can be suc­cess­ful. Unfor­tu­nately, much of it now falls into the noise cat­e­gory. Con­tinue read­ing

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