Today I attended a local simulcast showing of Chick-fil-A LeaderCast. I’ve been home for about three hours now, and my mind is still racing. The program theme was “Voices of Change.” Speaker topics were innovation, purpose, service, influence and hope. John Maxwell and Seth Godin started off the day. John Maxwell! Seth Godin! The morning [...]
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LeaderCast: What a day!
May 6, 2011Tuesday Tidbit
May 3, 2011Shhhh…what if you just listened? To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. – John Marshall When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. – Ernest Hemingway So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also [...]
Thank you Thursday
March 31, 2011After a five month shroud of gray skies and white snow, it is so good to see the colors of Spring. Even though we had a light blanket of snowfall in Central Ohio yesterday, Spring blooms poking through are still a reason for hopefulness. Temperatures will warm, gardens will flourish, moods will lighten. Today, I [...]
Imagine not noticing a mountain?
January 22, 2011Have you ever been blind to what you can see very clearly? This past week, I spent two days in Utah for business; one day with the happy, positive people in Price followed by a visit with generous and interesting people in Salt Lake City. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time devoted to sightseeing, but what I saw [...]
Commonality of strangers
January 15, 2011Yesterday, I stumbled across another blog titled “Being Fully Present.” The author, Jill, is documenting her way through radiation treatments for breast cancer. Aside from our blog names, a quick look through her posts brought the following commonalities to light: Jill is experiencing many of the same side effects from radiation treatments that my Dad experienced. [...]
New beginnings
December 29, 2010Have you ever wondered why you like the things you like? Is there a common thread that might open a new way of thinking for you? I recently connected the dots between some of my favorite things…watching the sun rise, looking out on freshly fallen snow, the shore as the tide rolls in and out. Each of [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
December 28, 2010As we head into the final days of 2010, here are a few quotes about new years. I’m looking forward to taking the lessons learned in 2010 and using them to help shape a new future. Generally speaking, I’m not a resolution maker, but I do know the future will present new opportunities to be the possibility of peace through a compassionate heart; [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
December 21, 2010Can you use just a bit of calm? This week is often a time of high stress – for some, last minute holiday rush. For others, family visits. Still others, perhaps loneliness. Here at work, higher than normal vacations and last minute customer requests can make things a little more hectic than even we are accustomed [...]
Tuesday Tidbit
December 7, 2010Have you ever noticed that sometimes, help arrives just when you need it and, often, from a most unexpected source? I was struggling with finding just the right tidbit for today. Then, yesterday afternoon, one of my daughter’s friends sent me a list of quotes she gleaned from an Entrepreneur’s Summit she attended a few [...]
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