Monday Meditations

The Natural Order of Things

Monday Meditations

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is [...]

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How I Quit Smoking: The Monday Meditation

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Three years ago today, I quit smoking. It shocked people who knew me. Few believed - including me initially - I could do it. I started when I was eighteen and never looked back. Of course, quitting saved my life, but it did more. Here’s a quick digest of how I did it and what [...]

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What’s Your Super Bowl?

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How you think it feels being Super Bowl XLV MVP Aaron Rodgers today? Wouldn’t it be cool to feel like that? To be at the very top of your game? That sense of accomplishment from a season’s worth of struggle and sacrifice? Beginning today, why not give yourself permission to kick off your own season [...]

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Are You Prepared? The Monday Meditation

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Are you stocked up with the milk, bread, and eggs of marketing and advertising? As boy scouts and elves know, being prepared makes life much simpler, and in business, it provides you an opportunity to take advantage of immediate reaction to get the jump on your competition. My region’s imminent Winter Storm Warning Snowpocalypse offers [...]

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Monday Morning Meditation: Godin Helps You Help People

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Morning! I just read this post from Seth Godin - Three ways to help people get things done - and I immediately thought of my friends in the not-for-profit sector (though it’s quite appropriate for any organization or family). Please read and share. Here’s my favorite paragraph: When people learn to embrace achievement, they get [...]

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Monday Meditation: Love

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I came across this desktop wallpaper somewhere a few months ago. Today seemed like an appropriate day to share it with you. A different Paul - Paul Hewson - may have written ‘Love Is Blindness,’ but he also wrote a moving tribute to the man we celebrate today. But, I’m sticking with this Paul today, [...]

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