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A friend of mine told me about his trials and tribulations in completing a renovation project. He concluded his tales of contractor
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Self-knowledge* can be an elusive goal. I find I still have “built-in” assumptions about myself that are untested or even untrue about
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“A recession is when your neighbor is out of work, a depression is when you are out of work.” We are living
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This is a short post about a process, not a result. I ran across the phrase, “The Ten Wisest People I Know,”
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“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a
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Encourage comes from the 15th-century Middle English word encoragen, which in turn came from the Anglo-French word encorager, or en- for in
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Integrity in communication means honoring your words. Honoring your words means you either 1. Keep your word: keep your commitments, your promises,
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This is a blog on personal leadership and generally its tone is positive, optimistic, and growth oriented. So a title of “Things
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On the limits of ambition, the harnessing of desire, and the importance of balance. “It’s not that I’m not satisfied, it’s just
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The Einstellung Effect refers to the human tendency to repeat a known solution, even if it no longer is the optimium solution.
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I sat for my CPA exam in the late 1970s. For those of you fortunate enough not to sit for the exam,
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I want to live in a fair society, a just society where hard work, intelligently directed, is rewarded as frequently as possible.