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A Story to Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Today’s blog is a short article from the sports page of the April 30, 2008 New York Times that tells such a

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We all go the same distance in life…

We all go the same distance in life, it’s just that some of us go in circles. And if circles is what

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Argue for your weakness and it’s yours

We all have our failings, our weaknesses, our areas of greatest potential improvement. It is important to know your weaknesses so that

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Can you summon your talent at will?

In a movie called “Devil’s Advocate,” Al Pacino is the devil in human form attempting to tempt Keanu Reeves, both of whom

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30 Methods of Influence

Listed here are Thirty Methods of Influence from Stephen R. Covey’s “Principle-Centered Leadership,” (Simon & Schuster, pp. 119-128). I could easily write

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Everyone who works for me is a volunteer

Everyone who works for me is a volunteer. Provocative statement, yes? I do not mean to say we don’t pay them. We

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Things turn out the best for those who make the best of how things turn out!

You often cannot impact the cards you are dealt in life but you can choose how you play those cards. Having that

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. Think about it. What future are you creating when you are

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“I am the one I’ve been waiting for…”

Every now and again I find that I’m waiting for something or someone to come along and resolve something or make something

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Rationalize = Rational Lies

Often our attempts to explain or analyze a failure to reach a goal devolve into rationalizations. And often those rationalizations are nothing

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“The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking”

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the

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Three Kinds of People

One of the mental exercises that people seem to love is to break down the world into different kinds of people. Here