Behavior Matters

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey The truth is that in every relationship – personal and professional – what you do has far greater impact than anything you say. You can say you love someone – but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions,

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an either-or?

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD As children, we were given a choice between the talented but erratic hare and the plodding but steady tortoise. The lesson was supposed to be that slow and steady wins the race. But, really, did any of us ever want to be the

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The odds of finding like-minded people are much lower with a smaller pool of individuals

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Lifestyles or interests that deviate from the mainstream need critical mass to survive; they atrophy in smaller communities not because those communities are more repressive, but rather because the odds of finding like-minded people are much lower with a smaller pool

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King Lear

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THERE WOULD BE a strong argument for saying that much of the most powerful preaching of our time is the preaching of the poets, playwrights, novelists because it is often they better than the rest of us who speak with awful honesty

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Perfection

From “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life” by Richard Rohr If there is such a  thing as human perfection, it seems to emerge precisely from how we handle the imperfection that is everywhere, especially our own. What a clever place for God to hide holiness, so that only the humble and

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