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Communicating with Those with Whom You Disagree

Since this topic has up about a half dozen times this week alone (and the week is only 3 days old) I thought I would blog about it. While there are MANY ways to engage in conversations and MANY theories of communication, there is one core question I ask everyone who...

Tell Me You Can't…

...find something to smile about and feel good about in today's economy and I'll tell you to watch this: This video was made in the Antwerp , Belgium Central Station (train). On a Monday morning, with no warning to the passengers passing through the station, a...

Turning Traditional Business on it's Ear!

Both my wife and I have developed a network marketing business on the side, she with Shaklee and me with Send Out Cards. And one of the number one objections we get is the old school thought that only the people at the top make money with those programs, or only the...

Screw the Economy!

Sorry. I just had to say that publically.  Thanks for endulging me.  I'm just tired of using and hearing the economy as an excuse.  The world is what we make it.  If we want, we can make it a collapsed economic nightmare. OR, we can make it something else.  I vote for...

Here's a Thought

…Their generation went from horse drawn carriages to space travel; from teletypes to cell phones; from canon balls to nuclear bombs; from the abacus to the super computer… What, I wondered, could top that?…

Thank Goodness for Failure

After getting beaten over the head, time and again these past few weeks with the theme of "failure," both my own and others, I decided it was time to take a stand.  So here is the stand I have chosen to take: Failure: What a Blessing!!! How sad a state of affairs when...

Seven Empowering Virtues

Confucius said “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” That’s generally because people spend so much time looking at what needs to be fixed instead of what is already great. Baseball analyst Bill James said it great: “If you can’t learn to do something...

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