To say that I’m a book nerd would be an understatement. I have a constant rotation of books on just about every flat surface, along with eBooks on both Nook and Kindle apps, and….two different “to be read” lists – a business list & pleasure list – that I’ll never outlive. With all due respect to non-readers (how do those…
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Do you remember when long, long ago when there was no such thing as the internet, or Pinterest? Remember when you needed a recipe for something and you reached for….your church cookbook? I grew up at St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin in the 60s and 70s. For many years, my mom belonged to, and was active in,…
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Years ago, when I oversaw a large call center, I had a young team member stop me and ask, “What is that thing?” While she was randomly pointing at “something” I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what. “What thing,” I asked. “That thing.” I could tell she was getting frustrated with me, she must have been thinking…
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Have you ever had a problem, whether at work or at home, that just doesn’t seem to get fixed? You keep whacking at it, throwing random fixes at it, then cross your fingers and hope they work. But in the end, your problem is still there and sometimes it’s worse! Root What? To truly resolve a problem, or figure out…
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Have you ever found yourself needing to make a decision, and you just can’t? It doesn’t have to be a huge, life-changing decision. It could be as simple as, “what should I make with this chicken?” And yet… you.are.stuck. Crazy as it sounds, sometimes even the simplest of decisions can be millstones around our necks. Why can’t I make this…
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If you’re a book lover like me, you probably have stacks of books laying around or loaded up on your reading apps. But do you ever feel like, “so many books; nothing to read”? I sure do! I find myself in a rut now and then, reading the same types of books over and over. I yearn for something different….
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I stumbled across a quote by Albert Camus just as the weather was starting to shy away from crisp fall headlong into brittle winter cold. “In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.” I’m not much of a philosopher, and I was never very good “literary devices” – the fancy term for the structure…
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