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“It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.” — Eric Lindros

With three kids in many differnt sports and music programs, it seems there is always a practice of some sort to go to. Right now it’s baseball, softball, and [...]

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“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.” — Og Mandino
What are the brick walls you face? How do you handle them?
If everything were easy, what kind of joy would we really get? The obstacles [...]

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Sometimes things don’t go as planned, or something simple becomes much more difficult. This happens to everyone. It happened to me this weekend. Let me share with you. I work in the information technology field for a small manufacturing company. This past weekend, we upgraded a key [...]

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"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." — Dale Carnegie
Are you having fun at what you do? In life? At home? In the workplace? If you’re not, it’s time to re-evaluate what you are doing in these areas. [...]

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How do you determine YOUR value? A sign I spotted on the way home tonight: “Your value is not determined by your valuables”. A very good lesson. It can become easy to compare ourselves to what our neighbors have in their front yard. But it is much more important what kind of [...]

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Simplify what?
Simplify whatever it is in your life that can benefit from some simplification!  For me, I’ll be looking at ways to simplify my home - make it less cluttered.  But it’s also looking at your work and personal life.  Are you doing things that don’t add any value to your life or others?  Is [...]

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“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” — Henry David Thoreau
More to come tomorrow…
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