Terry Starbucker

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The Zen of Trash: 10 Life Lessons From Collecting Garbage

Terry Starbucker

Sanitation Engineer, more affectionately known as a “Garbage Man”. From 7AM to 3PM, five days a week, my teammates and I went up and down the alleys and streets of our town, collecting the trash, putting it into the back of large compactor truck, and then taking it to a “transfer center”.

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Bill Murray's Choice, and What It Means For A Life Worth Living

Terry Starbucker

All you need is the Internet, and Google (or your favorite search engine). There are thousands upon thousands of people out there, on the Internet, who bravely decided to put “ life in first place “, took a huge risk, chucked their old job and way of life, and started over. We can all learn from and be inspired by them.

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Ideas Plus Influence

Terry Starbucker

My peers are engineers and surveyors, and we seem to believe that “right is right&# and if the idea is “right&# that other people should go with it…after all, we know best! – denise lee yohn Reed December 4, 2010 at 1:03 pm Terry – you are on the correct path on this one.

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Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle

Terry Starbucker

Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be. We can’t change personalities that were locked in long before they arrived at the interview. Mr. Peter was right – you cannot put square pegs into round holes.

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I'ma Blogger? Nope, I'm A Writer

Terry Starbucker

Out there for the search engines to find and world to read. It hides in journals, in Word docs on computers, on personal sites that never see the light of Google. For my some of my writing, that was me. I like writing so much I’ve bought a domain and started publishing my writings as a blog.

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

Just remember the little engine that could and did. I am so glad that you wrote this post and recognized the value in even the minutest noble failures. You are such an inspiration to me, Terry! dee Gardner May 20, 2010 at 7:39 am Wonderful. I think this is why we all the love the quote from Spencer W. Kimball, that Nike uses.