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Keeping Your Options Open Will Cost You

By on March 19, 2012 in What We Know, Work-Life Integration

Keeping your options open will cost you more than you may realize. Whether it’s personal relationships or business decisions, more choices can actually work against you. This seems paradoxical, but it’s true. When we give ourselves more choices, we’re actually lessening the possibility that we’ll decide on which one would lead to a desired outcome, [...]

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Sandhill Crane and Snow Geese Migration: Half a Million Strong

By on March 10, 2012 in Nebraska, Photography

Along the banks of the Platte River, about 150 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska, there is a staging area for a migration pattern that has been taking place since the beginning of time. The Sandhill Crane, a bird for which fossil evidence dates back over nine million years, gathers along the Platte after wintering in [...]

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A Valentine Love Letter to Our Children

By on February 14, 2012 in Uncategorized

Years ago, one of my favorite writers, Erma Bombeck wrote a love letter more like a valentine to her three children, explaining why she loved each of them (oldest, middle and youngest) best. My mother kept that clipping in her wallet for years. I remember reading it and understanding that each child is the parents’ favorite for [...]

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Reality Check: Spending Doesn’t Make You Feel Better

By on January 5, 2012 in Work-Life Integration

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what’s real and what’s not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. – Charles de Lint (Celtic folk musician and story teller, b. 1951) It wouldn’t have been fair to publish this post before Christmas, with [...]

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My Three Words for 2012

By on January 2, 2012 in Work-Life Integration

Continuing with a tradition that is now several years old, in 2012 I’ll again focus on my three words. The value of mindful focus into a narrow niche has been powerful, more so than any goal setting theory I’ve tried throughout my life. Here’s why: smart goals are specific destinations, and smart goal setting requires focus to weed [...]

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At the Crossroads of Blues and Rock’n’Roll

By on December 8, 2011 in Travel

If God had made a day to explain what the blues is all about, it would have been Sunday, December 4, 2011 in Memphis: cold, constant dreary rain pouring out of melancholy skies, the kind of damp that gets under your skin and drags your mood into what might be a dangerous place if you [...]

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