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Today, I joined a friend of mine for some shopping at Ikea, Lowes, and Target. I'm not a traditional female. That is, I don't know a lot about gardening, color combinations, or, I hate to admit, about cooking. I've made do with pasta, rice, and cereal for longer than I care to admit.

With experience, I've learned to navigate the twists and turns that is Ikea.…

I like you guys. A lot.

What I love about all of us is that we're all from different areas of the automotive biz. We all have one other thing in common (other than the obvious connection to the automotive realm), and that's the desire to help and…

One thing I've learned in my twenty-some years on this earth is that everyone I can meet either "Can do something so incredibly well" or "Can't do THAT, it's too out of my realm."

"I can do that! It's incredibly easy!"

"I can't do that, I never learned how"

"I've done this a million times before.'

"I've never done anything like this."

My answer is always: "Prove it."

Not that I don't believe what people…

Each season, like clockwork, I hit this mental block. 

I feel like I've reached my capacity and I have no new content to give, no no tips to provide, and no more help to offer.

Some call it seasonal depression, I call it a mental clutter. I think I'm an idea hoarder.

Throughout the year, I take tons of things in, recycle it, reword it, use it over and over again. This works for a while... but eventually, you need new material. I think of bands who…

When someone says something to you, do you listen? I don’t mean do the words pass through your hearing canal, but do you listen to them? Do you allow the words to enter your brain and form a clear vision of what is being said to you? If you haven’t put this much thought into this, then there is a very good chance you aren’t listening to the things…