Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: airport, attention, celebration, comfort, conference, core, country, decision, direction, efforts, experience, focus, friends, harbor, history, hotel, humility, inspiration, laughter, lesson, life, memorial, mission, moment, motivation, progress, reality, relaxation, success, thought, value, values, vision
Why are core values critical to our success in business and in life? Because our values are critical guides for making important decisions. And when in doubt they cut through the fog like a beacon in the night.
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John Blumberg has written the best book we’ve ever read on how we build value…with values. And if there was ever a time in the history of this great country that we need to re-visit our core values…the time is NOW.
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Enjoy an excerpt from John’s book, Good to the Core…Building Value with Values.
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An Excerpt from
Good to the Core
by John Blumberg
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U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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I was in Honolulu to speak at a large national conference. I scheduled an extra day onto the trip since I had never been to Honolulu and because a few great friends were also at the conference. The day after the conference, we awoke at the crack of dawn to visit Pearl Harbor. As we stood above and looked down upon the sunken USS Arizona, the depth of our experience came to life. It was moving and humbling.
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Upon our return to the hotel, I had some time to spare before departing to the airport. A couple of my friends and I decided to rent a raft large enough to hold three adults. We targeted the white-capped waves, out in the distance, as our destination. With the incoming waves, we had a hard time getting away from the shore. At first, there seemed to be enormous momentum keeping us “grounded.” Slowly, but surely, we began to make progress. It seemed to get easier. We eventually got within a few feet of the whitecaps and decided to board our raft and relax as a celebration of our efforts. It was in our moment of pause that we felt the reality
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: ability, airplane, art, aviation, classroom, contest, courage, craft, experiment, family, friends, idea, imagination, inspiration, lesson, life, link, mind, movie, opportunities, partner, possibilities, reality, secret, teacher, team, vision, winner, world
Peter Drucker once said, “It is easier to come up with new ideas than it is to…let go of the old ones.” I couldn’t agree more! That comfort zone is…well, pretty comforting for all of us.
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What are some of the secrets to taking risks and turning problems into new
Mar 05 2010
Posted: under "DID YOU KNOW".
Tags: adorable, attention, audition, ballerina, Britain, celebrity, children, classic, contestant, dance, Idol, judges, link, music, pattern, performance, photos, reality, runway, sensation, show, singer, smiles, spotlight, success, talent, television
Lungs Of Steel
Hollie Steel
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At first, 10-year-old Hollie had trouble dancing, but then she started to sing. » Better than Boyle, Shaheen?
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Posted Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:40am PDT
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I don’t know about you, but I’m already sick of Susan Boyle from Britain’s Got Talent. And I don’t even live in Britain! I’ve just reached my Boyling point with her.
Well, it does seem now that the population of Britain agrees with me, at least, because U.K. viewers’ fickle attention has already turned first to younger and cuter 12-year-old Britain’s Got Talent hopeful Shaheen Jafargholi and then, as of last night, to the even younger and cuter 10-year-old singing ballerina, Hollie Steel.
Hollie’s performance on Britain’s runaway-hit talent show is the latest Interweb sensation after airing on U.K. television yesterday, and along with the obvious
Posted: under Advice & Tips, Inspirationals.
Tags: action, advice, beauty, church, concern, dream, earth, energy, example, expression, faith, food, global, globe, God, heart, inspiration, language, life, man, minister, others, pastor, pope, practice, prayer, preacher, priest, quotes, reality, reverend, role model, sermon, speech, thought, tips, truth, universe, weight, woman, words, world, youth
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH - OR BETTER YET, DON’T PREACH, JUST PRACTICE.
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THINK ON THESE THINGS
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Aligning Actions And Words
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
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Words carry a lot of weight in this world, from how we say them to what we say with them, but it is through our actions that we bring things into being. This is what we mean when we say to one another that actions speak louder than words. In many cases, what we say doesn’t necessarily line up with what we are doing, and it is here that it becomes clear that it’s easier to talk about doing something than it is to actually do something. At the same time, it’s easy to keep doing something that we don’t necessarily acknowledge ourselves doing verbally. It’s good for all of us to take a look every once and a while to make sure there is alignment between what we say and what we do.
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Apr 21 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: award, economics, expectation, happiness, honor, joy, lawyer, life, Nobel Prize, reality, settlement, wife, winner
“Well, what do you expect?” Has anybody ever asked you that?
Sometimes, my greatest disappointments have come because I expected
something that was simply not realistic.
You may know that Robert Lucas won the 1995 Nobel Memorial Prize in
economics. His ex-wife received half of his $1 million award. Yes, his
EX-wife. As it happened, when they were divorcing in 1988, she had her
lawyer add one tiny clause to the property settlement: “Wife shall
receive 50 percent of any Nobel prize.” And her clause had an
expiration date: October 31, 1995. He won the prize on October 10.
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Apr 20 2009
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Advice & Tips.
Tags: advice, beauty, bliss, body, breathing, earth, eyes, food, happiness, healing, humanity, imagination, inspiration, life, listening, meditation, mind, mood, music, nourishment, pleasure, power, quotes, reality, rivers, source, thought, tips, water, waterfalls, world
Full Release
Water Meditation
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Our bodies are over fifty percent water, so it makes sense that human beings have always considered water to be a sacred source of life and healing. It is literally half of who we are, and well over half of the earth’s surface is water. Water cleanses and hydrates, contains and produces nourishment, and when we enter it, holds us in an embrace that leaves no part of us untouched. Meditating with water can be a powerful way of aligning ourselves more fully with this support system that makes life both possible and pleasurable on so many levels.
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We may wish to conduct our meditation while in physical contact with a body of water, whether in the intimacy of our bathtub or the vast container of an ocean. We might float on our backs in a swimming pool or sit with just our feet submerged in a pond or creek. On the other hand, we may simply close our eyes and choose a location based on our imagination. Whatever we choose, we can begin by closing our eyes and listening to our breathing. At the same time, we tune in to the particular music of the water we have chosen—the loud rushing of a river or waterfall, or the surreal silence of the world beneath the surface of the ocean. We might consider how the type of water we choose reflects what we seek—the peace beneath the hectic surface of life, the cleansing power of a river racing through a canyon, or the mood lifting, melodic bubbling of a lively creek.
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Apr 18 2009
