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Are You A Gift Artist?

03.04.2010 Play

Do you give great gifts? Perfect gifts? Are you that person?
Each of us has that one person in our realm of association who’s just a better gift-giver than everyone else. They make a high art out of giving just the right gift.
That’s a powerful skill to possess, my friends.
Think about how you scratch your [...]

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Charlie Makes a Difference

02.19.2010 School

I like it when dots connect … especially on Fridays. Don’t you?
My friend Charlie (I really think you’d like Charlie, by the way, but then again, it’s kinda hard to dislike someone named Charlie, isn’t it?) posted a YouTube link to a video by The Weepies to his facebook status last night.
Charlie wrote:
“Hard to say [...]

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Can you get to 50? What’s it take?

02.17.2010 Home

Weather extended my parents’ 50th anniversary celebration a couple extra days, and we got back to Mizzou last night. I spent a lot of time wondering on the eight-hour drive home:
What does it take – in the age of divorce – to get to 50 years of marriage?
And …
What does it take – in the [...]

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today

02.13.2010 Family

They said, “I do.”
And they’re the reason I’m here, sure, but they’re also the reason I like to think I’m polite and respectful and curious and, on occasion, a little funny. They’re also the reason I have two siblings – older siblings … much older siblings – whose reputations and good deeds I’ve tried to [...]

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Thinking In Pictures Saturday Night

02.05.2010 Home

HBO premieres Temple Grandin tomorrow night. It’s the story of an inventor, advocate, and author who made an awful lot of people rethink autism. Her book, Thinking In Pictures, is the first book many parents read when they learn their children have the developmental disorder.
Here’s a fine piece about the production by The Daily Beast [...]

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Two Kinds of Compliments

02.04.2010 Work

“Young man, I want to pay you two compliments,” he said – with a wink in his voice before even so much as ‘hello’ in our weekly phone call.

These calls always make me nervous. What if we’re tracking downward? What if the things we’re doing aren’t working? But, you make the call.
You do the hard [...]

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House Money, Four Little Words & The Night Everything Changed

02.01.2010 Family

Yesterday, as I planned my week ahead, I initially chose to write about strategic planning this morning. I owe you parts two through five of a simple way to make strategic planning doable. I was stressed about the week ahead – a monstrous to-do list as our practice and levels of responsibility continue to grow.
Then, [...]

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Good Tuesdays

01.29.2010 Home

Starting Tuesday, D. Rowe’s Restaurant (our client, in the interest of delighted disclosure) is going to start doing something cool. Well, it all started last summer. David and Meghan Rowe donated 5% of their gross revenues on Tuesdays last summer to help Sarah Hill and KOMU-TV send WWII veterans to D.C. to view the war [...]

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Important v. Urgent: A Blur of Inspiration

12.09.2009

I’ve been working for a few days on a draft of an introduction to strategic planning for 2010. I felt self-inflicted pressure to get it finished today.
My son got up early this morning and wanted to make adventure badges and wanted to know what adventures we were going to do today.
Didn’t you know you did [...]

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2 Awesome Ways To Start Your Day

11.11.2009 Volunteerism

Dovetailing onto yesterday’s discussion about my sister and her church’s awesome project, I wanted to point you toward to great ways to start off your day.
The Daily Good sends you an email featuring an inspirational quote and short anecdote to give a lift first thing in the morning. Join 100,000 of us who start [...]

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