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Took a picture of a passing cruise ship from our own vessel last June 27. Paid no mind to the name on the side. Just realized last night it was the Costa Concordia.
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Imagine walking out your front door and seeing a lovely neighborhood reduced to rubble. I speak in shame because we’re one of the fortunate families who still has a front door. Looking out of it, there is a numbing disbelief at what we see. We’re still only days into the aftermath of the deadly tornadoes…
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Got troubles? “No Ordinary Joe” is a book by Bill Todd on how to respond to negative life situations. The book draws parallels from the life of Joseph as told in the book of Genesis in the Bible’s Old Testament, to the life you and I live today. People and situations came against Joseph to either…
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Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012 – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review. Let me add to this article by offering Five Things You Should Start Doing in 2012. To be successful in your personal and business life, I’d suggest these: Listen. It’s probably the most valuable thing you can do, in both…
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There was a time when o2ideas president and CEO Shelley Stewart wandered the streets barefoot as a homeless child. As an African American in the segregated world of the 1940s American South, he had every possible disadvantage. Having seen his father murder his own mother with an axe, then abandoned by other relatives, he and…
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Grandmother washed these windows all the time. Now the glass is gone. The aluminum siding that for a railroad family was a big investment, is now ripped off. This is where I grew up. In Woodlawn, a historic Birmingham neighborhood not far from downtown and near the airport. This is where we rode our bikes…
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There’s No Such Thing as Constructive Criticism – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review. What do you think?
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A Serving of Gratitude Brings Healthy Dividends – NYTimes.com.
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You’ve heard of the H.J. Heinz Company. You’ve had their mustard on a hamburger or had any other number of their fine foods and condiments. But did you know there almost WASN’T a Heinz food company? H. J. Heinz, the company’s founder, had actually lost his burgeoning food business as a result of the economic…
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Are you a Tim Tebow or a Matt Barkley? | Procrastinating Tomorrow. Interesting dialectic on the Tebow phenomenon. Love him or hate him, Tim remains true to his compass and doesn’t let the crowd affect him.
No Ordinary Joe
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