I have started to post shorter and shorter articles on this site. The reason has a purpose. The reason is on purpose.

I am trying, for myself, to work on THINKing more and talking less. Be able to fully understand the concepts I want to convey while translating those concepts for others to fully grasp, understand and relate to those ideas.

Dan Roam is the author of BLAH BLAH BLAH and explains why we talk too much. He also has a nice way of illustrating how we can use our natural visual advantage that the brain gives us to become better problem solvers. Using the concept of “Vivid Thinking” is one way of becoming better communicators and story tellers.

Here are two videos that walk through these ideas:

Branding, Logos, the communication of ideas and identity has always fascinated me. Because people make decisions on whether or not they will buy, interact, embrace or maintain their relationship with you based on how they identify with you. Even how you allow yourself to be identified!

They will recognize and sustain the relationship based on habit or a need. Whether that need is of indulgence, want, or survival we cannot control. However, if that need is based on individual WANT then we can help in the way an individual views us. They can either NOT want or WANT to interact with you.

The following video below is the result of a Sunday project Adam Ladd had with his daughter.  After watching, think deeply.

Then ask yourself:

1. How do I project who I am?
2. Do others identify?
3. as a result… Should I change?

This is the world of corporate logos, as seen through the eyes of his  5-year-old daughter. Follow him at  @ladddesign

Have any of you often found a number of pennies in your pocket and nothing to do or spend it on. I have as well. While a penny had a lot of use back in the 1960′s and previous, they do not have a as strong of a benefical monitary value today.

As I wrote in my Thanksgiving rant on Black Friday, Hourly Wage and the Decline of Thanksgiving, I am all for inreasing the margin between opportunity costs and huge waste on our time and productivity in life and work.

Now I know you may have seen this already. Dan Pink beat me to the punch when he posted his thoughts in December of 2011. But I dare to bring you it again, an interesting argument for removing the penny from our daily lives. Except not me… I could use all the pennies you can spare!