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“Finding the Freedom of Self Control”
Self control is not a thing we are born with or without. Self control is not allotted at birth or a “blob of brain tissue…
December 9, 2009
Do Unto Others: The Golden Rule and The Ethic of Reciprocity
Most of us learned the Golden Rule at an early age, even if we might’ve been a bit long on theory and short on practice…
December 8, 2009
Genius vs. Chance
Take a hundred newly-minted Harvard MBAs. Set them to work flipping coins. Track who flips nothing but heads. When you are down to one person,…
December 7, 2009
Little Known Secret to Weight Control: Calorie Density
Read an interesting study the other day that said that while the number of calories we eat may vary significantly from day to day, the…
November 24, 2009
What You Resist, Persists
Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to lose weight and keep it off? Permanently? Forever? Then don’t diet! I weigh 150 pounds,…
November 19, 2009
PopCap: A “Modest Proposal” or Two
(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) Two thoughts… We read frequently about illegal immigrants paying huge sums to be smuggled into the United States. At the…
November 13, 2009
Internal Peace vs. External Peace
“It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work…it means to be in the midst of…
November 11, 2009
Top 10 Most Expensive vs. Top 10 Most Happy
Ran across this interesting exercise*: Make a list of the 10 things you have purchased that brought you the greatest happiness. Then make a list…
November 9, 2009
Healthy Aging
Can you name the seven major factors that create a healthy old age, both physically and psychologically? According to the Grant Study of 268 Harvard…
October 26, 2009
Don’t Believe Everything You Read… Part 3
Americans devour polls. We just love to know what everybody else is thinking. We give weight and credibility to poll results, especially when they are…
October 21, 2009
Candor: How Little We Get, How Much We Need It
We recently transferred a Team Member to a less-demanding position because, while he/she had terrific talents in many areas, this TM needed to work on…
October 19, 2009