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Believe There was recently an all-day Star Warsathone on TNT. Google says it takes at least 15 hours to watch all seven movies. I wasn’t prepared to spend 15 hours in front of the TV, but periodically, I’d switch it on to see what the Skywalkers were up to. I found one scene during “The Empire Strikes Back” very insightful for this time of year. It was the one where Luke...
Keep your eyes on your goal The normal bedtime routine for the English house starts with the telling of a story. Most of the time, I contrive some sort of imaginative situation where a little boy or girl goes off and does something spectacular. The story ends after a grand adventure with the little one feeling so tired that they “go home, get in their bed and go to sleep.” The End. ...
Vilferado Pareto was an Italian economist in the late 1800s. While working at the University of Lausanne, in Switzerland, he noticed that income was unevenly distributed throughout Italy. After researching the issue, he determined that approximately 80 percent of the land in Italy was owned by 20 percent of the people. This led Pareto to investigate other countries where he...
According to a recent article by businessinsider.com, 80 percent of New Years resolutions fail by the second week of February. By the time you’re reading this, it will be the third week of February. So let me ask you, how are you doing? Another article I read by Forbes said only 8 percent of people achieve their New Year’s resolutions. That’s staggering. I’ve never...
I was talking to one of our helpers while we were working together on a recent flip. I asked the 18 year old if he’d done any goal setting for the New Year. What he said next, I think, is all too common: “I don’t have time for goal setting. I’m too busy working.” How many of you have heard the saying, “Time is money?” I disagree with this statement wholeheartedly. Time is not money...