Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do […]
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Several times in the last few days I have been bombarded with the message that playing it safe is perhaps the riskiest choice you can make. The really hip way to say it is — Safe is the New Risky! Usually when I hear or read the same message several times over a short period
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When did basking in our achievements get such a bad wrap that we fear taking a few minutes out to celebrate? I just listened to one of those “blah blah” sort of voicemails that gets cascaded in a corporation from the head honchos to the worker bees. It is moments like these that I am
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In the movie Peaceful Warrior, Socrates (Nick Nolte) asks young Dan Millman (played by Scott Mechlowicz) “Are You Happy?” Dan replies, “What does happy have to do with anything?” To which Socrates replies, “It has everything to do with everything.” Needless to say, “Type A” driven champion athlete, campus stud, straight “A” student Dan initially
Between e-mails and the harried life we lead, it seems a miracle if people remember to take a moment to say thank you at all anymore. It is a shame because acts of gratitude have an exponential positive impact — on the person saying thanks and the person receiving the thank you. And, quite frankly
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