What can kids on the playground teach you about managing your employees? A lot. (And probably not what you think!) On Friday morning, I was heading back to the office after some morning errands when I drove by my son’s school and saw the kids outside on the playground. I needed to get back to […]
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Today’s word is STRIVING, as in: Striving to overcome. Striving for perfection. Striving to get ahead. Striving to achieve our goals. And I think it’s time we put an end to it. Uhhh… I think I can hear the cries of heresy. Isn’t striving a good thing? After all, to strive is — according to
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Agree or disagree: We live in a society that’s all about MORE and BIGGER, where smaller numbers — especially just one — are rarely worthy of discussion at all. (Unless you’re talking about the “#1” at the top of the list, or maybe to an Olympic athlete who missed the gold because of one millisecond.)
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As featured on MarketWatch.com, the somewhat contrarian advice of inspirational speaker, Shawn Ellis, is being called a “breath of fresh air” by attendees of his “This Moment Matters” seminar and keynote presentation. There’s no question that heavy workloads are getting people down: The accelerating pace and complexity of life and work today has 63 percent
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In recent years, it seems that everywhere you turn someone’s talking about happiness. (Even me.) There are well over 30,000 books on the subject at Amazon.com, like: The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun The
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