SPEAKING
Have you ever lost a great employee? Guess what? The process of quitting happened months before they handed you their resignation letter. Leaving a job starts with moments of discontent, it’s the events that erode emotional engagement. It’s kind of like falling out of love with your car. You.
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We were the only non-writers in the room. We sat in the back, the waaay back, behind 25 other wanna-be authors. My friend JoAnn and I signed up for the How to Get Your Book Published class believing we actually had a prayer. Yet as we heard about the.
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I fell in love with PT Barnum in the third grade. I was also besotted with Thomas Jefferson. Yea, I was a weird kid. My heroes were a carnival barker and a writer. Watching the new movie The Greatest Showman, on the big screen last week, rekindled my passion.
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This is why we can’t have nice things. Well, sort of. I call it The Bookcase Problem. It’s when people take something excellent, then pile mediocre stuff on top of it and ruin it. I dubbed it The Bookcase Problem, after an experience with my Dad. He was cleaning.
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A friend of mine told me she hates salespeople. As part of her job, my friend has to buy large amounts of printing products. I asked her, “How do you purchase the things you need to run your operation? She said, “I don’t deal with the salespeople, I just.
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Consider the difference between these two phrases: “I have to.” vs. “I get to.” Imagine you’re going to spend the day taking care of a sick family member. Maybe it’s your father, or your brother, or maybe it’s your child. You’re going to spend a day taking care of.
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Do you remember when we all used to like each other? I do. In fact, I remember when our shared national aspiration was to dream big dreams and become bigger people. A few years ago, I was at an upscale burger place in Atlanta with my youngest daughter. The.
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Would you ever stand in the way of a rocket going into space? Do you want to hold your country back, or help it move forward? These are important questions. They’re examples of how the milieu creates the meaning. Milieu is the social conditions and events that provide a.
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Are you looking forward to the next round of family holidays? I’m lucky, I like my family, in fact, I love them. Yet as I listen to people complain about their awful in-laws, crazy sister or cheapskate uncle, I realize, not everyone is so lucky. If you have horrible.
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If you get caught in a riptide, the best way to survive is swim with it – go in the direction it’s carrying you. When people try to overpower the tide, they drown. Instead you should use the tides’ energy to go elsewhere. I was working with a Chief.
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