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  • Taming the The Rhinoceros – LEAD

    If you want fast results that will produce no enduring fruit, release the rhinoceros in you in some crowded place. If you want to be a leader who inspires people to greatness, however, LEAD.

  • Timidity

    We stagger through life encumbered by the pressures of everyday problems and phantom concerns. We are sensitive to slightest slight and the subtlest gesture. We are quick to take offense and slow to receive healing when offended, much less to extend forgiveness. We step gingerly into new experiences and tremble at the very suggestion of…

  • Five Reasons You Should Visit a Toastmasters Club This Week

    Toastmasters International is an octogenarian organization (the club, not the members) that teaches leadership and communication skills in an atmosphere of fun, acceptance, dignity, and collegial support. You should visit and then, you should join. You begin where you are today. There is no judgment, no harsh criticism, and no big surprises of the embarrassing…

  • The Grow Flow

    We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork and play, day by day, our classes.We are classmates with our fellow creatures.These also are our students…

  • Be Hungry

    I was a little taken back as I sat in the training session for aspiring vacuum cleaner salesmen and heard the trainer say, "I hope you are all in serious debt or financial trouble. If you are, you will be successful." I didn't like what he said at the time, but I came to understand…

  • Getting It Done – Quotes to Motivate

    "We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough."  – Helen Keller " If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. " – Walt Disney " Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it.…

  • Lessons from a Penny

    I was trying to find something to write about a few years ago and was completely stumped. Hoping to distract myself into a state of concentration, I picked up a penny and turned it over and over. I asked myself what messages that small coin might give me.The following is the lessons I learned: It…

  • God’s First Creation

      If I were to ask you what God made first, you might say, "light" based upon the first chapter of Genesis. However, it does not say that. It says that He made everything in the beginning and that He made light before other physical phenomena, but Proverbs 8:22 informs us of a prior creation…

  • The Eyes of Time (Spelled I-Z-E)

    Time has eyes. In this case, it is I-Z-E: Sanitize Prioritize Optimize Strategize Energize I could throw in a few more just to be cute and thorough, but these may do. We can revisit categorize, synthesize, and scrutinize later. _____________________________ _____________________________

  • The Grand Courtship

    (Jeremiah 31:3 KJV) The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Everlasting love. It is as much of a quality as it is an expression of duration. In fact, what makes God’s love endure is that it is…