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I didn’t even notice that the bathroom was top-to-bottom ’70s salmon or that the kitchen appliances looked like props from The Brady Bunch. I was looking at the neighborhood, the street, the lot size and the general layout of the house. I was in love, but my wife was in a slight panic. “If we [...]
While a few live for their jobs, most work at them. As such, many are easily distracted from those daily tasks that give little satisfaction. One way this tendency exhibits itself is as a veritable craving for office controversy — any reason to start email or chatting with co-workers about the latest goings on in [...]
“With this bureaucracy, including the judges on the bench, we can have … laws written by angels and they cannot lift us from the swamp. With bad laws and good civil servants (judges) one can still govern, (but) with bad civil servants, the best laws cannot help.” — Otto Von Bismarck (in a letter to [...]
“One of the important things that I always remember from my First Consulting Group days was a comment from (FCG Founder) Jim Reep: ‘Speak the truth as if it’s going to be in the newspaper tomorrow — say what needs to be said,’ and that’s what I try to live by, because I think you [...]
“The vigour of the human mind quickly appears when there is no longer any room for doubt and hesitation, when diffidence is absorbed in the sense of danger, or overwhelmed by some resistless passion. We then soon discover that difficulty is, for the most part, the daughter of idleness, that the obstacles with which our [...]
“I must be crazy,” I thought, as I looked out across my backyard. For whatever reason, it was only at that moment — after weeks of investigation and planning — that I realized it was foolish to make the sizeable investment required to grow a lawn without benefit of the in-ground sprinklers that would ensure [...]
“Let me go in the back and see if they are ready,” said the owner/operator of my favorite bagel shop. As he journeyed into the kitchen to see if the flagels were done, I knew I had a 50/50 shot at receiving good news. Jim, the owner, is a young entrepreneur, runs a very nice [...]
“You’ll be fine — you’re the most organized person I know,” a colleague at one of my last jobs said upon my promotion to editor-in-chief. While it may not sound like the best pep talk in the world, it was exactly what I needed at that moment because, to me, the ability to define and [...]
“We’re leaving … now!” said my wife, with my son in her arms and tears in her eyes. Though I’d been urging her to let him continue with his soccer sessions, I knew it was time to throw in the towel. A few weeks prior, she’d discovered a soccer class at her gym that accepted [...]
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