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Our Actions Influence Our Feelings
Occasionally I hear people say, “I can’t help it. I just feel that way.” It turns out, we have more control over our emotions than…
May 12, 2009
You can’t lose what you never had
A Team Member spoke regretfully to me the other day: She was negotiating to sell a house, going back and forth with a potential buyer,…
May 7, 2009
Trayless Dining
In one fell swoop, we are going to – conserve water – reduce food waste – save energy – save money, AND – combat obesity…
May 4, 2009
Alexander Technique
Alexander Technique is a method of re-educating and connecting with your body based on principles formulated by F. Matthias Alexander between 1890 and 1900. Popular…
April 29, 2009
PopCap: Prosperity: The Solution to Global Warming?
(A populist capitalist blog) Intuitively, many people feel that for the environment, simpler is better. And from there it is a relatively short leap to…
April 24, 2009
The Virtues of Soft Power
One recent dawn I walked along the beach of Green Turtle Cay on the Abaco Sea. In between watching the clouds as they heralded the…
April 22, 2009
The Edge
How do you measure greatness? How do you get an edge? In many fields of endeavor the low-hanging fruit, the fruit in sight, has long…
April 13, 2009
The Encourage vs. Correct Continuum
My father was an engineer. I was taught early in life that if something broke, we were to take it apart, break it down into…
April 7, 2009
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Stop the presses: Zoning is the answer to childhood obesity! “Ninth graders whose schools are within a block of a fast-food outlet are more likely…
March 30, 2009
Sources of Lasting Satisfaction
When I was growing up in Gainesville in the 1960s, my father taught civil engineering at the University of Florida. The department sponsored an annual…
March 18, 2009
Pre-Positioning
Racquetball has been my exercise passion ever since I took it up in my early twenties on concrete three-wall courts on the University of Florida…
March 4, 2009