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He tells me that the people on line that have already received and activated their iPhones must be boasting and lying or they must have special access because they are bloggers. What is this guy smoking?

Disconnect from iTunes, restart and reconnect. All is well. I'm syncing as I type.

Today I spotted a little boy two tables across from me at a picnic. He's very carefully trying to shield others from spying his blue pump as he enters his carbs that he has in front of him for lunch. I decide not to flag him with my "pump wave".

My grandson spots him too and looks up at me for recognition. Later the two of them are playing. The boy hangs upside down on the monkey bars and holds his t-shirt over his stomach to shield his pump, he plays alone. My grandson, a good four years younger, approaches him. Oh, no. My grandson points at the boy's pump and back at me, he's outed me.

The boy ambles slowly over, pretending to be busy at other activities. But I'm on to him. I'm a Grandma type, 52, and he's only 10. It would be so uncool to talk to me, wouldn't it?

He sits with his mom, sitting across from me. I give him a wave with my pump. We have the same pump I tell him. His eyes brighten and he displays the hidden pump, same one as me, different color. Suddenly, we have the world in common. He asks when I was diagnosed, I smile and tell him. He tells me he was diagnosed a long time ago, when he was nine. I tell him the pump is a whole lot better then needles and he agrees. We have a quiet discussion about the pump. I don't feel so good he says, I think I'm low, and his parents pop out a juice pack for him.

HIs mom begins to discuss various diabetes related topics and he drinks his juice. I have to go, I give him another wave with my pump and he waves with his. We are diabetes buddies, forty years apart. I hope he finds another buddy closer to his age, although I'm pretty cool with all my body gadgets, I'm still a grandma type. I know very little about the embarrassment and isolation he feels. I'm way past that, I don't care who sees my pump, I test my blood without regard for anyone looking, I don't hang upside down and I don't have a spiderman sticker on my supply case. But we're still buddies, aren't we?

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Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, shows us in his How to Stand Out in Crowded Marketplace video, how to look for and break existing patterns in order to truly stand out.

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Each year I try to buy myself an end of year present. Most of them have been successful, some, not so much. Last year it was a pair of boots I never wore – silly given that I live in Southern California. I managed to repeat the bad choice this year with a guitar. I haven't played since I was a teenager.

I opened it up, started to tune it and the last string wouldn't hold the note. Close inspection revealed that the tuning key was cracked. A quick phone call to customer service and they told me they were out of the guitar, couldn't offer any parts, couldn't tell me where to get it repaired. My only option, return it. Granted, I should be happy with getting my money back, but I'm bummed. No guitar and a perfectly good (unusable) iPhone app that I've been working on to tune it with.

If you sell guitars, shouldn't you also sell parts for guitars?

This morning, we sent him off to 6th grade camp for a week. You'd think he was headed off to college by the way we're acting. But the past year and a half has been such a living hell for us that this is just one more person to miss. I must come to terms with each of my children flying the nest, temporarily or permanently. I'm just not ready to let this one go yet.

This folklore has been disproved by other scientists actually testing the theory of bumblebee flight and recalculating how a bee takes flight.

But its an interesting piece of folklore to think that the bumblebee doesn't know any better and flies anyway. Isn't that how we should approach most things? Don't listen to the naysayers that tell you that you can't do this or you can't be that because of some supposed limitation you have.

Why not always try? Most successful people didn't listen to those that told them they can't, they did it anyway. You won't go to your grave with the things that you failed at on your mind, you'll go to your grave with the regrets you take with you – the things you didn't try.

If you're team wins, who is responsible for the win? Ultimately it isn't the cheerleader. A good football team can win a football game with no cheerleaders at all. Without a coach, without a quarterback, without a defensive squad? Not so much. Yet, having a cheerleading squad can be the difference between a win or a loss. Each part of the team has a role in the loss or win. Each part of the team has a function that they must fulfill that could be the deciding factor to a winning or losing season.

Just like a winning or losing football team, your company's team members have a purpose and each team member needs to know that they make a difference in the day to day operation of your business. You're the coach if you own the company. You're also the cheerleading squad. You're probably the quarterback too. You are responsible for the failure or the success every day. You can't sacrifice the cheerleading just because it doesn't fit in as a 'real' part of the business. The 'feel good' part of your business should always be important.

A cheerleader makes the team feel good about being a member of the team. They make them feel capable of winning. They feel like they can pick themselves up and go on. They make them feel like they are appreciated.

Its an especially important part of doing business in this economy. We're all feeling pretty depressed about our state of finances – individually and as a country. Pep talks are even more important during a losing game than during a winning game.

Make a difference in your team today. Give them a good pep talk. Talk about your achievements, your victories, your failures. Let them know what you plan to change, what you'd like to see done differently, what's being done right. You don't have to wear a short skirt or balance your secretary on the top of a pyramid. You won't have learn any fancy yells. But take a lesson from the cheerleading squad and give them a good 'Go Team!'.