There are opportunities for learning all around us, but recently I’ve attended many wonderful programs at library conferences. They’ve really got me thinking, but they say the best way to learn something is by teaching it, and there is certainly…
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Learning
What I’ve learned this week: I learned about a neat website called crosswalk.com. It’s neat for a lot of reasons, but especially for the Bible search tool. I’ve been trying to decide what I want to learn more about. Do…
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two ways to die, two ways to live
I watched the movie “Assault on Precinct 13” last night. When things get dicey, criminal kingpin Bishop tells Sergeant Jake Roenick that he’s seen many people die, and there are two ways to do it: with self-pity or without it.…
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A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest! And the grave is not…
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A solid foundation
I dreamed last night about discovering a huge uneven gap in the foundation of the house where I was in the dream. It was a two foot gap or better between the broken edges of the basement wall, because, after…
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Talents
Booknotes on “First, Break all the Rules” by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman. The Gallup Organization conducted two in-depth studies. First they asked: what do the most talented employees need from the workplace? They developed 12 questions that measure the…
A Prison of Our Own Making
This weekend I went to see the movie “Walk the Line” based on the life of Johnny Cash. It portrays his struggles with coming to terms with a difficult childhood and other pressures. In the audition that launched Johnny on…
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A Weekly Personal Development Plan
There are many life areas to set goals and develop personally. The Life Area Energy Level Gauge is a tool that makes it easy to see where to begin with areas that are low. Then plan for actions to take…
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Celebrate!
Looking back over the past year, be sure to congratulate yourself on the successes you have achieved. Sometimes we are in such a hurry to move on to the next goal that we don’t take the time for the pat…
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Visualization Exercises
How do you see your life in the next year? The more clearly we can paint a detailed picture, the more likely it is that it will come true. The following exercises are from the book “Experiences in Visual Thinking”…
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