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Category: Life

Entrepreneurship and The Art of Pivoting

By Frank Posted on November 24, 2024 Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Life Tagged with business, entrepreneur, systems integration

 I am an entrepreneur.  I have worked for myself for 22 of the last 28 years, and have had to dodge and pivot often along the way. Sometimes I try new ideas (like starting the Automation Academy site 4 years …

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Happy New Year 2024!

By Frank Posted on January 1, 2024 Posted in Life Tagged with education, Mastering the Machine, new years

Another year has passed and it’s time to look at what happened in 2023 and plan for 2024. I have mentioned in previous New Year’s posts that one of my inspirations for this end of the year ritual is Chris …

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Random Thoughts Video

By Frank Posted on March 4, 2021 Posted in Life, Me, System Integration Tagged with Automation Academy, systems integration

I recorded this video while driving from my home in Lebanon, Tennessee to visit a customer in Knoxville. It is the day before the one-year anniversary of the tornado, and I just kind of discussed the stuff that I have …

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Working from Home

By Frank Posted on April 12, 2020 Posted in Life, Me, My Little Factory, Trainers Tagged with Allen-Bradley, COVID19, Fischertechnik, Micrologix, PLC Videos, RSLogix, SLC500, tornado

A friend of mine, Shawn Tierney from The Automation Blog challenged us on Linked In to post a picture of our hobby space, the place where we spend our time at home when we aren’t working. In my case, since …

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Coping with Change

By Frank Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in Life, Me, Random Thoughts Tagged with change, COVID19, pandemic, tornado

Last month was quite a whirlwind for me, if you’ll pardon the expression. First there was a tornado that paid a visit on March 3, and now Covid19. Like everyone else, my daily routine has been disrupted. I had a …

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Devastation…

By Frank Posted on March 12, 2020 Posted in Life, Me, My Little Factory Tagged with Automation Consulting, tornado

As some of you may be aware, several tornadoes ripped through Middle Tennessee last week. Unfortunately, my training facility and office took a direct hit and was completely destroyed. I live about a mile and a half from my office, …

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Update – Excuses…

By Frank Posted on October 14, 2018 Posted in Life, Random Thoughts

So I guess its pretty obvious I haven’t posted for a while… and I really don’t have any good excuses. Of course I still travel a lot, and I am still working on a lot of projects when I’m in …

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Happy New Year 2017!

By Frank Posted on January 1, 2017 Posted in Life, Thoughts Tagged with 2017, education, goals, learning, New Year planning, training

Well, its that time again where people around the world review the last year and make plans for the new one to come. While this can be done at any time of year, people often choose this particular day to …

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More on Life…

By Frank Posted on September 7, 2014 Posted in Life, Me, Travel Tagged with business, systems integration, training, travel

As I get older I often spend time thinking about the way my life has gone. I started with many advantages; I was born in one of the richest countries in the world during the most interesting… or at least …

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New England Adventures

By Frank Posted on March 30, 2014 Posted in Life, Me, Travel Tagged with Boston, Maine, New England, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, travel

I think I mentioned in a previous post that I’ve been traveling a lot lately. By my calculations I’ve been out of town for all but four weeks since last September. I work for myself, so there’s no-one to blame …

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