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Tip 116 – When You Say The Wrong Thing

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Tip 116 – When You Say The Wrong Thing

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Below is a snippet from this week's Tip of the Week:

"Recently I hosted a dinner with a great group of friends and people I wanted to meet. One of my guests was a particularly good friend, a guy I care about and respect deeply. Until recently, this guy was a high profile CEO. But due to politics, he was let go – despite the fact that everyone knows he's a total superstar, both in his performance at that company and in every position prior....."

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HBS Interview

I enjoy mentoring and helping young people, so I try to make time when I am asked to participate in things like this Harvard Business School article.

Tip 115 – Transform Your Career With Peer Support

Tip 115 – Transform Your Career With Peer Support

Peer support should be institutionalized in every company, but you don't need a corporate mandate to get started. Today, I want you to reach out and find one friend at work. Arrange for a good long lunch to talk about where each of you is going and share your one-year goals. Then keep it up! Or suggest turning your monthly staff meetings into peer support groups. In another example of peer support, my cousin-in-law Wendy is a real estate agent who has teamed with another agent – not just to sell more homes, but to inspire each other to constantly do better. Wendy is the type of person who lives by lists, so she pushes her partner to stay organized. Her partner, on the other hand, pushes Wendy to make more cold calls to homeowners trying to sell their own homes. "We complete each other," says Wendy. That's team selling...

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Message from Comedian George Carlin

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.  We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If you don't send this to at least 8 people....Who cares?                  George Carlin

The Last Lecture

I knew about this "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" lecture from friends, but learned about the TV show and that the book is coming out this week from Energy Bus author Jon Gordon's newsletter: 

"By now you probably have heard about Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch and his last lecture. Well, Randy recently passed the six-month mark since his terminal diagnosis. On Wednesday, April 9 (10 p.m. ET), ABC’s Diane Sawyer will host a special about Randy and his impact on the world. It’s an inspiring story that I hope you’ll watch and read. Randy’s new book, written with Jeff Zaslow will be out this week as well."

To learn more, go to www.thelastlecture.com.