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Non-negotiable What’s the important stuff? This time of year I always warn people about the impending craziness and busyness. Ever since I have moved about in the working and living world of society I see people struggling with this. It’s the beginning of the school year. It is the budget cycle in business. It is …
Slippery When Wet Five ways to keep from breaking your neck when the things get sloppy It’s been raining up here in the North East. It’s one of those 2-week periods where it rains almost every day. It’s good for the vegetable garden. It’s good for the plants and the ducks. It’s not so good …
A short review of a short book on fear. There is an imprint in the UK, part of Random House publishing called “Quick Reads” that published short books. I know this because I bought one. It was called “Feel the Fear and do it anyway” by Susan Jeffers. I did not know I was buying …
Cape Cod The footsteps of Thoreau. I am browsing through a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod that I received as a gift. He wrote consistently through his life. He read consistently too. He read in many languages and had a broad, scholar’s grasp of the available literature of antiquity. I have read Walden, …
Strengthsfinder 2.0 Lifelong learning includes learning about you. I recently read a book and took the assessment for a methodology called StrengthsFinder 2.0. I make it a practice to continually learn and especially continually learn about myself. There are a number of these social psychology type methodologies available that try to organize the messiness of …
