”I had a doorbell moment this week,” Patricia told Tracy.
Both have sons serving in the same Marine unit in Iraq. Patricia is describing the fear that grabs her the moment her doorbell rings unexpectedly, thinking that the officer on the other side has come to tell her that her son is dead.
Tracy understands.

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Holidays are times of great loving and loneliness and we often don’t know who is experiencing which. For many it is a bit of both.
For us all this can be a prime time for kindness, sometimes by sharing what we have.
And kindness is often unspoken. “An eye can threaten like a loaded and leveled [...]

After a priest moved to a new parish he approached his superior one afternoon to ask, “Would you mind if I smoked while praying?” and was, not surprisingly, turned down.
Yet how one makes a request has a huge impact on whether it will be  granted. For example, the priest might have said, “Would you mind [...]

Become an opportunity-maker for the member organization that most matters to you. Imagine that your association or special interest group kept innovating to create more value and meaning for members.
That’s what TED has done and we can too by taking three collaborative steps over time:
1. Offer a single major conference  – as most associations already [...]

Even though we know we are more likely to savor life and attract more opportunities to collaborate when we click with others, we often get in our own way – especially when we are distracted or worse.  Here are five concrete ways to connect with others.
1. Face the world as you want to be treated
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“.. .she pointed the audience to people who were great examples of living their dreams with a very motivating and empowering attitude,” Heather Parlato wrote about Colleen Wainwright.
Praising individuals in the audience is especially helpful when facing a tough crowd as I described in a comment here. Bill Clinton, at his best, is a master [...]

You may recall your Myers-Briggs type. Now, via Typealyzer, discover your blog’s personality type.  Find out in seconds – complete with a description and diagam of your blog’s type. As an  

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For starters, a warped sense of humor helps. When he first came from New York, shortly after college, Paul Geffner began selling handmade leather bound journals, along with a crowd of other street vendors on the sidewalk near The Embarcadero in S.F. Even then people were drawn to

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Here’s wise advice for us all – from Lee and Sachi, inspired by their constant, in-house muse.

Don’t you love it when you recommend someone and that person finds an unexpected way to make you look good? My friend, the popular Restaurant Doctor, Bill Marvin had that experience. Since you could adapt this approach to other situations and strengthen relationships all around I thought I’d share it with you.
Wrote [...]