I recently read a quip I have never seen before that said, “When nothing goes right, go left.” I’m not sure why that sort of caught me by surprise, but it reflects something I believe pretty strongly: sometimes when we’re in a rut or things are not going our way for a while, doing something […]
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In the excellent movie Jerry Maguire, Jerry, who is played by Tom Cruise, is a sports agent who’s leaving the big firm he’s part of to go out on his own. Dorothy Boyd, played by Renee Zellweger, is an assistant at the firm who decides to leave and join him to build this new venture. […]
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One of my favorite sayings is, “No one ever complained that something was too easy to read.” It’s a continual reminder for me when I’m writing for business, or personally, to keep things as simple as possible, not to use big words when small words would do because I want to make sure that the […]
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One of my favorite quotations is from Albert Einstein who said, “A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new.” There are at least two great ideas packed in to that brief quotation. The first is that we should try stuff in life. We should do things and see how they turn out […]
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A friend sent me an article about four habits that help people perform at a very high level, and the last of the habits mentioned was really interesting to me. First of all, seems ironic because it was listed last, because the habit is to do the hardest thing first every day. I have heard […]
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One of my favorite scenes in the very powerful movie, The Shawshank Redemption, takes place towards the end of the movie when Andy and Red are talking outside in an empty courtyard at the prison. And Andy says, in this very poignant moment, “Get busy living or get busy dying!” Red has a certain interpretation […]
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In Gabriel Garcia Marquez book “Love In the Time of Cholera”, the main character is frustrated in trying to give a box of chocolates to a love interest. He tries for months every day, and frustrated at his failure, he hands them to a complete stranger and says, “this is for a love going all […]
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One of my favorite quotations is from Milton Berle who said,” If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” It’s a reminder that if there’s something we really want in life, it requires some outside help from the world, and we don’t do anything about it, usually nothing happens. I believe very strongly that the universe […]
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