My New TV Show

Title: My Not So Carbony Life (Ok, the name might need some work)

...But, I've had this idea for quite some time to create a documentary / TV series following and proving or showing the ability to live a sustainable, carbon neutral life and still be a normal, functioning, and involved member of society (ok, this is dry for a sec, hang with me).

The idea would be to build a house entirely with renewable energy and local materials or materials delivered without the use of fossil fuels.

The focus would be the demonstration of whether it is possible to

Custom Magazine Covers

A few magazines covers that I created for my Dad's Birthday, Christmas, and Father's Day.

Selflessness - Playing for the Team

[Originally written on 09-Feb-2009]

Coach Dan Herr and '08 Truckee JV Boys Basketball

Don’t think about winning, don’t think about the score…play for the moment…play in the now…the rest will follow

Every member of a team has a job, a role…you may not always like your role, but you have to play it. If you are in the game, you have a role, if you are the 6^th man, you have a role, if you are riding the bench you have a role (cheer the team on…help the coaches out). If you play your role, giving up the selfish ego, we will win as a team…and everyone likes winning

Its not about winning…its about being

What I would give....

If I could give one thing to the world... one thing that would change it and sustain it... it would be the oxymoron of a non-profit organization that's goal and purpose in life is to create, invest in, support, and build sustainable businesses... an organization that reinvests what is earned into the community and the world around it... building businesses not merely with the intention to get rich and the desire become the largest of the Fortune 500's, but the goal of becoming the best business they can possibly be... choosing instead of big, instead of gargantuan, to be great.

Every day you live you die a little more. Only so many days left on the clock.
If every day you're dying tomorrow why not live in the fullest today?
- Daniel Herr 31-May-2010

[Updated 16-Nov-2011]
I just read Steve Jobs' quote a few weeks ago... Kinda neat to compare his to mine:

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap
 of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.
There is no reason not to follow your heart."

Good People

Good people like to be associated with good people…but not boring good people…not good people just filled with rhetoric…good people filled with action.

Praise-free action

Something I have firmly learned in my travels is that you feel so much better about life when you do something for someone else expecting nothing in return. Helping someone beyond what they expected and receiving praise for simple actions above and beyond. By taking initiative and doing what is needed and never asked; what is appreciated more than you know but hidden with all but the slightest hints.