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Cell Phone Manners

Research shows that people like you less when you put your phone on the table during the conversation.  

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Feedback

Practicing without feedback is like bowling through a curtain that hangs down to knee level.  You can work on technique all you like, but if you can't see the effects, two things will happen: You won't get any better, and you'll stop caring. 

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#Leadership

Whatever the specifics of the company or the industry, leaders who break new ground are those who are willing to make promises that other leaders won't make, because they have a point of view about the future that other leaders don't share.  As the English poet Ralph Hodgson put it, "Some things have to be believed to be seen." 

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Choose Kindness

"Hate is too great a burden to bear."  -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Risk-Reward

"If you cannot risk, you cannot grow.  If you cannot grow, you cannot become your best.  If you cannot become your best, you cannot become happy.  If you cannot be happy, what else matters?"  -Dr David Viscott, Author

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Goal Setting

"A goal properly set is halfway reached."  -Zig Ziglar

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Obstacles

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."  -Helen Keller  

Survey Says

According to a U.S. study among more than ten thousand teens, the degree of empathy has dropped by a whopping 50% over the past decade.  Accompanying this lack of empathy, we've also witnessed a spike in suicide rates; multiple studies confirm this surprising connection.

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Priorities

No tombstone has ever featured the amount of money earned by the person lying beneath.

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Silver Linings

Silver linings only reveal themselves to this who look for them.

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