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10 Positive Lessons from 2020

It may be difficult to find the silver lining in 2020, but there are some invaluable takeaways. People say, “you learn more from your failures than your successes.”  Then 2020 made me a genius.  You, too.  We’ve experienced the Covid – 19 pandemic, high unemployment, social upheaval, economic downturn, national [...]

By |March 20th, 2021|

7 Traits of Empowered Women

7 Traits of Empowered Women This has been an intense year for all of us. There has been enormous disruption to the status quo.  Yet, there are some women who seem to always make the best of a bad situation.  We wanted to know how they do it, so we [...]

By |February 19th, 2021|

Bruce Lee – New Learning

Bruce Lee, the world-famous martial artist, told this story about his teacher as a lesson for Lee's students. It is about the Japanese Zen master who received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. It was obvious that the professor from the start was not so much interested [...]

By |January 5th, 2021|Tags: |

10 Positive Lessons From 2020

10 Positive Lessons from 2020 It may be difficult to find the silver lining in 2020, but there are some invaluable takeaways. People say, “you learn more from your failures than your successes.”  Then 2020 made me a genius.  You, too.  We’ve experienced the COVID-19 – 19 pandemic, high unemployment, [...]

By |January 3rd, 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

Quote for Discussion

You have the Power "... no matter what happens in our life that we cannot control, we can always control our response to what happens.” Victor Frankl, who was a survivor of a Nazi war camp, said that choice is the greatest human freedom. When you work with difficult people, or [...]

By |December 17th, 2020|Tags: , , , |

24 Gold Coins

A man I knew was given six months to live, yet his outlook on life was inspiring. I asked how he could stay so positive knowing he only had a short time to live. He shared these thoughts with me. “Each day when I wake up, I receive twenty-four gold [...]

By |October 14th, 2020|Tags: , , |

Criticism

There are two types of criticism: Destructive criticism - where someone is trying to put you down. Constructive criticism - where someone is trying to lift you up. Don't mistake the later for the former.  Help is everywhere if you are receptive.                 [...]

By |October 13th, 2020|Tags: , , |
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