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Happy New Year! Now, Let’s Just DO IT!
I used to scoff a bit at the New Year’s resolutions. But no more… Everybody needs a “restart.” It’s one of the things that made high school or college so great; every year, or ever Semester, you got a do-over. But once you get into working adulthood, the do-overs are a LOT less frequent, and while [...]
Continue reading...10 Tips from Happy People
18. September 2009
This one requires little intro or explanation. 10 Tips from Happy People Are you happy? It’s a simple question, but with numerous variables underlying it. What makes someone happy? Is there more than one route to happiness and more than one way to measure it? If you’re an economist or a social scientist, you may conduct [...]
Continue reading...An Unexpected Gift
14. September 2009
This is probably one of the most amazing stories I’ve heard in quite some time…Words don’t do justice to it, so if you read the article and like it I’d suggest you also watch the video. What an incredible story of an unexpected gift. Although Phoenix cab driver Tom Chappell insists he always knows where he’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday Evening Session
26. June 2009
What a great evening that as one Associate described was just a roller coaster of emotions!
Continue reading...Yet Another Way to Live Longer
23. June 2009
When you do a Google search for images related to the word “purpose” I don’t understand why the results pull up esoteric whispy trees in the middle of green fields, or that of a person paddling a canoe in the reflective moonlight in the middle of a widespread ocean with nary a sign of life [...]
Continue reading...Lesson from 54A
3. May 2009
Thanks for tuning in this past week for excerpts based on my recent Servant Leadership article “Lessons Learned from Mother Teresa.” Funny as the way life goes, I had many great blogging ideas this week (seems to always be the case in the rare event that I’ve got a weeks worth of entries already considered). Thanks [...]
Continue reading...“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” -Mother Teresa
1. May 2009
The following post is part of my weeklong series “Lessons Learned from Mother Teresa” (read that post first). This excerpt is part three, the final component, of the Direct Selling News article from March. I’ll post the full article and link this weekend. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” [...]
Continue reading...“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” -Mother Teresa
28. April 2009
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” -Mother Teresa There’s a lifestyle component to our industry that sometimes we feel that we need in order to sell “the opportunity.” There’s nothing wrong with lifestyle; nice homes, comfortable cars, and exotic trips are all part [...]
Continue reading...“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa
27. April 2009
The following post is part of my weeklong series “Lessons Learned from Mother Teresa” (read that post first). This excerpt is part two of the Direct Selling News article from March. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa When you arrive in Kolkata, despair, more than anything [...]
Continue reading...Lessons Learned from Mother Teresa
26. April 2009
In January I took two weeks off to go to Kolkata, India to do some volunteer work and personal study at Mother Teresa’s organization called the “Sisters of Charity.” About the time I was leaving, I was asked to write an article on Servant Leadership for the Direct Selling News publication. So the decision of what [...]
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