While someone might define success as being able to achieve great heights in one’s chosen field, another might define a successful person as someone who ‘has left the world better than she found it’. No matter what your definition of success may be, does it have kindness factored in? I…
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David Casstevens of the Dallas Morning News tells a story about Frank Szymanski, a Notre Dame center in the 1940s, who had been called as a witness in a civil suit at South Bend. “Are you on the Notre Dame football team this year?” the judge asked. “Yes, Your Honor.”…
I can’t remember where I read this but let me share with you the story of two tribes. There were two tribes that lived in the Andes Mountains. One was the Lowlander tribe who lived in the foothills and the other the Highlander tribe who lived way up the mountains.…
Sometimes things happen that we just can’t help. Something significant – A new boss. A reorganization in the company. Something terrible – A total collapse of the industry we planned to conquer. A family member falls terminally ill. Your marriage breaks down. Something seemingly insignificant – The rain washes out…