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Sherlock Holmes for President
Just because following politics and watching the news are not high on my “to do” list — in fact most days they aren’t even on it — that doesn’t mean I don’t love America. I absolutely do. My answer to people who thank me for my service when they learn
Making Progress in Your Life
Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking about making progress. Moving forward. Improving. Getting down the road. Or, as it is often called in business, traction. Maybe you do this as well, but when a concept like progress takes up residence in my brain, I apply it to all
Getting Back to Good
The phrase “like riding a bicycle” implies that once you’ve learned some skill, you can always do it. When it comes to bicycles that may be true. If I had a bicycle handy, which I do not, I would go try it and report back to you. There was a
Have You Been Conned?
The public, including me, loves stories about con artists. Just do a quick search on movies about con artists, and you can quickly get a list of “50+ Best” There are shorter lists, but on all of them I looked at, The Sting is at the very top. If you’re
How Do You Learn To Be A Leader?
Great question, isn’t it? Especially if you are someone who really wants to move into a leadership role. But it is also a great question for anyone who has found himself or herself in a leadership role and suddenly realized that personality will only take you so far. One place
Words (like socialism) mean things. But what?
Do you hang out on social much? I don’t, but I wandered into the “world wide web” the other day, and I spotted something that made me laugh. Which is generally a good thing, because laughter is good medicine and most of us don’t get enough of it. In fact
Happy Birthday, America!
When parents have children, they hope those children will outlive them. When entrepreneurs start companies they hope the same, as do those who write books, craft songs, plays, sermons, and invention things. I am certain that the men — and women — who were responsible for the founding of the
Do you have a plan?
There are a number of ideas about how we should live: The reason these and a lot more exist is that in every generation, humans try to figure out how they can go from living (merely existing) to living well (finding happiness). It is one of the many things that
Get Out of America for a Minute
Several decades ago I was driving alone on a two-lane highway, going from one small town to another. I was somewhere in Southern Illinois, it was spring or early summer, the day was beautiful, and the weather was great. With little traffic and the windows down, I was enjoying the
You’ve Got A Friend
One of the great challenges of our super connected world is seen in a statistic that seems completely counterintuitive. Loneliness is on the rise. Weird, right? But it gets a little weirder. I just read, “The highest rates of loneliness are reported among individuals aged 16-24, with about 40% admitting
Who came up with that?
A few days ago I was chatting with my friend David. We live in different states now, and while we don’t agree on a number of things that are happening in the world, we agree that we are and will be friends. Still, when he began with “I want to
The lost art of conversation
When you visit a coffee shop or café, what is the one thing you absolutely, undoubtedly, expect to find — not counting coffee? Free Wi-Fi, of course. I mean, what’s the purpose of a coffee shop if not to take up room, jump on your laptop or phone, and disappear
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