Exercising Faith

03.19.2010

Faith is a distinctly human attribute. We have faith that after today there will be a tomorrow, that after winter there will be a spring. Our ability to experience faith gives us unparalleled opportunities to accomplish amazing things, both as individuals and as groups. However, faith becomes a crutch if it isn’t acted upon. Faith [...]

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We Tell Ourselves Stories

02.20.2010

We’re all storytellers. Some of us realize this fact before others, while a few fail to acknowledge this reality ever. We tell ourselves a story about who we think we’re meant to be versus who we’ve really become. We tell stories about how we think we were, full of bravado and beauty, when, in reality, [...]

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Three Months of Thoughts

01.28.2010

Maybe I’m more tired than I realized or maybe it’s just been too long since I last posted. I forgot my password. More than the date of my last post, this loss of memory brings home how long it’s been since I’ve put my words on the screen. For the last few months, I’ve been [...]

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Now What Does a Nobel Mean?

10.09.2009

Much will be written about President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win. I’m not negative about the win, but baffled. If I’ve done the math right, he was in office less than two weeks when he was nominated. He received the award after being in office less than a year. He has accomplished much given his [...]

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The Health Care Debate Isn’t Really a Debate

08.20.2009

Whoever defined the current noise surrounding the question of reforming health care as a debate needs their heads examined. A debate implies an exchange of ideas. All I’ve heard is a bunch of whining from both sides. While real arguments exist that support both mindsets, they’ve been drowned out of the conversation. Instead we see [...]

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How Are You Filtering Information?

07.17.2009

In Vanity Fair‘s August edition, Michael Wolff makes the case that Politico.com represents the way we’re going with regards to information distribution: “obsessives everywhere in their particular narrow-focused areas of interest (‘silos’ is the modern information term), flashing ever more information, ever quicker, in ever shorter bites—the shorter you can make it, the more information [...]

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The Catch-22 of Newspapers

07.08.2009

I like newspapers. I like the organization of information, and the way I can leaf through their pages, scanning for stories. But, as I relearned yesterday, the hard way, newspapers do not make a good fit for this brave new world. A client provided an interview to a local newspaper a few days ago. This [...]

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Running to Discover Your Motivation For Doing

06.29.2009

I’m a runner, albeit not always a happy one. Sometimes my miles are a slog. Usually they’re something for me to tick off my to-do list. In the back of my mind, I thought it odd that I didn’t look on running with the same joy that possessed me as a child. I chalked it [...]

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Who Are We Really Mourning?

06.26.2009

The seemingly global angst surrounding the death of Michael Jackson has me thinking: what are we really mourning? I doubt that it’s who he was at the time of his death, but rather, for those of use who remember, who he was when we liked him best. We’re mourning the guy who introduced the moon [...]

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The Highs and Lows of Expectations

06.17.2009

Expectations are tricky things. They invite optimism, giving you something to look forward to. On the flip side, they can lead to disappointment and foster cynicism. When we’re dealing with our expectations for people, the extremes are perhaps the greatest. People have the potential to stun us, for both good and bad. In my case, [...]

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