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Why Should I Read | Outliers
What is the question we always ask about the successful? We want to know what they are like, what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with. And we assume that it is those personal qualities that explain…
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Why Should I Read | Eat That Frog
“If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that it’s probably the worst thing you’ll do all day. According to Brian Tracy, “eating frogs” is a fun way to refer to overcoming procrastination. There are 21 practices outlined in this book. All of…
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Learning to be Heroes
You can define a society by the heroes it keeps. You can also define a person by the heroes he or she keeps. Who are your heroes? Who are you modeling yourself after? -Jeff Olson The Slight Edge As individuals strive to be what we are created to be there are different avenues to pursue.…
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So God Made a Farmer
Admit it, you watch the Superbowl more for the ads than anything else. I know, I know, the level of excellence in the two teams, striving to be the best in the country at running, tackling, passing, sacking and sweating is good too. Yet you enjoy the commercials more. Why is that? It’s because companies…
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The Law of the Vital Few
There are those moments when things come together. When a pursuit is verified by something unrelated. First Event, I just finished reading the Phenomenal book We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident: 12 Natural Laws of Freedom, Progress, and Success by Oliver DeMille. He makes the case in this book that even though most people talk a big…
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The one thing to do in 2014
You’ve all heard the phrase, All Leaders are Readers. And this is true. If you’re hoping to lead, you need to be hungry to be grow. If you want to become more than the person you are now, then by definition you’ll need an outside source to draw from. Many people wonder what it would…
Jon DeLange 