Doug Jones's (dougj) Blog

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“It’s just another day…”  Those are words from a Beetle’s song and sometimes I approach life that way.  Yesterday I did a magic show for a large group.  I have done hundreds of shows.  It was a good show but was it my best or was it just another show?  It is never just another day (or show, or ev...

These were written in 2006.Today is St. Patrick Day and everybody is Irish… that really is the Truth.  Beneath it all we are all Irish, and Jewish, and Mexican, and Iranian.  I look at people and see the same; not different.  Gandhi was correct when he said: I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a...

A Quiet area in the San Francsico Bay Area. There can be 'country living'in the Bay Area. This condo is in Pleasanton off Foothill Road; 33 minutes from downtown San Jose and Silicon Valley.Check out the virtual tour pictures at www.tourfactory.com/3157905$570,000 2113 Arroyo Ct, unit 2, Pleasant...

“I left it to circumstances to guide me.”  This quote comes from Dr. Albert Schweitzer from his book Out of my life and thought.  Dr Schweitzer is considered one of the greatest people of the 20th Century.  Sometimes it is best to make decisions by letting the circumstances guide us; trust life. ...

This was a test just to see if I could still post a video on Active Rain. Fun, appropriate showmanship (showpeopleship?) can really sparkle sales. Getting any customer or buyer to laugh is worth everything.I became a magician as the result of teaching a sales class. The class was studying showman...

I have heard the expression, “It takes a village to raise a child.”  When we think about it, we realize the truth of the statement. None of us can raise ourselves and really none of us is self-sufficient.  We can be independent but at the same time we need to be inter-dependent._________________T...

I am posting 45 days of affirmations that I wrote in 2006 and recently found them in my garage. Day 14 will be posted this morning but in the meantime just for fun I asked AI to write affirmations for Realtors and here they are. Hello AI.Absolutely, affirmations can be a powerful tool for Realtor...

If I hang in there long enough things will usually turn out the way, I hope.  Sometimes my gains don’t seem to go as quickly as I would like…sometimes it seems I am going downhill.  The key is to sometimes, just hang on…_______________________I am capable of earning  a wonderful living and creati...

For most of us success comes so slowly.  It is the daily work; the little efforts that will eventually lead us to our success.  Remember when you learned to read?  Did you learn the 200th day of the 4th grade… or was it the 12th day of the 6th grade.  When did you realize that you could read?  Fo...