SILENT HEROES LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA’S BIG MOMENT By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com It will be a moment, a moment when the entire world watches, as the United States of America inaugurates our first African-American president. There will be parties. There will be cheering. There will be speeches. I.
[Read More]HOW TO DATE LIKE A GROWN-UP (IF YOU MUST) By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com You get to a certain point in your life when you’re no longer willing to waste an entire evening on a bad date. If you’ve been married for a while, you may have fond memories of.
[Read More]SUICIDE LEAVES A LEGACY OF PAIN AND DESPAIR By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com A friend of mine just got the news that another man in her neighborhood killed himself. He’s the fourth in 12 months. Another man who decided that his family would be better off without him. Another man.
[Read More]RECESSION LEADERSHIP: THREE STRATEGIES FOR THE BOSS By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com I don’t know which is worse – losing your job or being the one who has to make the cuts. Yes, I know there are still some heartless execs out there slashing jobs and burning while taking huge.
[Read More]THE SHOWER SPEECH YOU MIGHT WANT TO SHELVE By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com You know it’s bad when you start practicing the speeches. You know, the little speeches you rehearse in your head for the grand and glorious moment when you finally get to tell so-and-so what you really think.
[Read More]ODE TO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS: UNSUNG HEROES OF AMERICA By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com You can usually tell by their hands. Gnarled and rough, dry and cracked, bearing scars from years of twisting metal, pounding concrete, ripping lumber, stripping plastic and pushing and shoving all kinds of rough material into awkward.
[Read More]GOSSIPERS AND GOSSIPEES: WHO HAS MORE STREET CRED? By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com Why are we so willing to believe bad things about good people? Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get sucked in by gossip? Sometimes it doesn’t even matter where it came from. If it’s.
[Read More]WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ME IS ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com “Don’t take it personally.” The reason this is such a common expression is because we so often do – take it personally that is. Especially children. I can’t tell you how many times my.
[Read More]WHY I HATE THE BACHELOR By Lisa Earle McLeod www.forgetperfect.com It’s wrong. It’s just plain wrong. It violates the social order of the universe. Yes, I’m talking about The Bachelor, the horrific reality show where a group of attractive young women compete for the attention of one man. It’s just.
[Read More]FORGIVENESS: ANTIDOTE OR ABSOLUTION? By Lisa Earle McLeod “I can never forgive him.” How many times have you heard that? We all want our own mistakes to be forgiven. But how many of us truly want to forgive? Especially on the big stuff? Every time I write about forgiveness,.
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