leisure sickness

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Leisure Sickness: Can Vacations Be Bad For You?

Recent studies have shown that the positive effects of vacations tend to be both short and weak.** Indeed, some people may even

joys of simplicity

The Joys of Simplicity

Effectively thinking outside the box requires a deep knowledge of the key elements of a system along with the raw courage to

who controls your future

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Who Controls Your Future?

This is about your old age and how you intend to live it. “Elderly” is the one minority we all are destined

Rectangle 10

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The Power of an Auteur

When it comes to design, Apple is run by a committee of one: Steve Jobs. Jobs reputedly concerns himself with the most

if everything is a priority

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If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority

When everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority. If everything is important, then nothing is important. Medicine responds to this

life is about choices

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Life is About Choices

“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask

if it were easy

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If it were easy, everyone would do it…

If it were easy, everyone would do it. And it would already be done. Face it, 90 percent of the time the

reality doesnt care

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Reality Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings

In the final analysis, it is performance that counts. When the tsunami comes ashore, what counts is how high and strong your

pied piper of happiness

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“The Pied Piper of Happiness”

Joseph Peter creates handmade “Books of Happiness” in what he calls the Happiness Factory at the intersection of Bleecker and Lafayette Streets

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Tooth to Tail Ratio

The U.S. Marine Corps likes to boast about its “tooth to tail” ratio versus the U.S. Army. The tooth being the combat

6 days a week

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Six Days a Week, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

May we truly be fully grateful for the lives of privilege and opportunity we are blessed to live. May we give back

what didnt you do

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What Didn’t You Do?

Often when a project goes awry or a deadline is not met, I am regaled with long explanations of all the things