jeff marmins blog: misc. musings.

Funny that a friend, one that doesn’t know me so well, thought to post this short video clip on my Facebook wall.  Awesome scene.  Even better message. “The Pursuit of Happyness” is one of my favorite films. Will Smith is a REAL actor and Gabriele Muccino is a wonderful Director – they did “Seven Pounds” [...]

this is cool…

We’re proud to be associated with such a powerful message.  Who’s got your back is not just some new flavor of the month self-help book.  Our connectedness to others that are not just telling us what we want to hear, but instead telling us what we need to hear has been lacking.  This is the [...]

OneGroup – C, originally uploaded by vaXzine. I like this post…especially the uploaded handwriting to http://www.flikr.com. Nice thoughts.

My son Cole just had his first birthday. It is also the one year Anniversary of my foray into being a corporate-lackey-non-involved-hermit. My network withering and community involvement at zero, I begin reconnecting with clear perspective and focus. A year of learning the wireless industry from within the trenches of telesales at Verizon Wireless proved [...]

I talk to lots of folks about character – how they include it and what in means in their life.  Mostly, people seem to use it as a basis for making decisions.  A road map.  I find it’s a directive to simply listen to your inner voice.  We’ve all had that voice tell us something [...]

More wisdom from the rebe at www.chabad.org Self-pity is nothing less than an impulse to destroy yourself. And this is its script: “This is the way you were made. These are the facts of your situation. It’s bad. Worse than anybody else in the whole world. In fact, it’s so bad, it’s impossible to do [...]

An important component of being effective is connecting to yourself.  Know that your mind is fried and that you need to walk away from the computer for awhile and get some perspective.  I’m not sure who said it, but I love the expression, "When your mind is tired, work your body.  When your body is [...]

Joe Versus the Volcano  – a highly underrated and worthwhile film that encourages me to truly live and to appreciate the wonder of the world and the people in it.  My favorite quote from Meg Ryan’s character, Patricia: "My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody [...]