Finding Truth
“Once a person is caught by belief in a doctrine, one loses all one’s freedom. When one becomes dogmatic, that person believes his or her doctrine is the only truth and that all other doctrines are heresy. Disputes and conflicts all arise from narrow views. They can extend endlessly, wasting precious time, even lead to war. Attachment to […]
The Hidden Good
“It’s one thing to see the obvious bad in the world. Quite another to discover (or become) the hidden good.”
—Robert Thomas
Perhaps we’ve stepped through the looking glass, entering a world precisely opposite of that which we truly desire.
Honesty is on the ropes. Integrity […]
Tabula Rasa
The Sales & Counselor SellingSM Series
Tabula Rasa
(Latin: “scraped tablet” or “clean slate”)
Tabula Rasa is a Latin phrase often translated as “blank slate” in English and originates from the Roman “Tabula:” a smooth piece of slate covered with bees wax; […]
Here Be Dragons!
Fear of the Unknown
Pushing the Edge
Land of the Shadow
Far Side of the Swamp
Fiscal Cliff
The Ghosts in the Shed
Beyond the River Styx
The Edge of the Earth
Demon Town
The Dark Side
Bogeyman in the Closet
Mordor, Where the Shadows […]
This July, Think about Dependence
“We must all hang together.
Or assuredly we shall all hang separately!”
– Benjamin Franklin
American Printer, Writer, Speaker
Founding Father
(1706 – 1790)
Eight Spinning Plates
(The Dismissal of Artificial Goals)
“Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”
— Robert Fulghum, American Author
Right Going Forward!
“A cat who sits on a hot stove top, will never sit on a hot stove top again. And that is well. But she will never sit on a cold one either.”
— Mark Twain
American Author, Humorist and Philosopher.
Yeah, you really messed that up! It was understandable of course. You were young, and aggressive and knew it all… But some […]
Forgiving Faster
“I concluded a particularly humbling foreign assignment and came home to lick my wounds. The Boss, after a solicitous interval said, ‘Are you going to be laughing about this in 20 years?’ I responded, ‘Well, yes…’ He smiled and said, ‘Why not laugh now?’”
— Jennifer R. StJohn
There’s a lot of time wasted in self-flagellation […]
Shelf Space
“In the supermarket, there’s a noisy and expensive war going on between Brand A and Brand X. Brand A is the favorite, and they have the money to protect their position, so they spend a lot of it renting the most valuable shelf space: precisely at eye level! And the truth holds: Whatever is seen repeatedly at center stage, SELLS!”
