Make Your Own Luck

If you don’t subscribe to my monthly ezine, I’m sharing some of what you missed this month.  Subscribe for the newsletter using the sign-up form on this site. Do you consider yourself lucky?  I do, but I don’t believe in luck in the traditional sense of some sort of random and mysterious force.  Instead, I [...]

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On Dreams and Goals

Today commemorates the birthday of Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader.  If he had lived, he would have been celebrating 80 years on this earth.  I took a few minutes this morning to listen and watch—again—Dr. King’s most famous speech, I Have A Dream.  It never fails to inspire me.  If it has been [...]

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And Now for Some Good News

With all the bad economic news of the past few weeks, I have something to lift your spirits.  I just finished watching the newest video in the Quest series on PBS and I am feeling full of hope.  I’ve included a link to a short video clip at the end of this post as well [...]

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Breaking Out of the Cube

In the past month, I’ve heard about two former computer programmers who left the corporate life behind to live out their dreams as song writer/musicians. Having worked with a lot of computer programmers and systems engineers over the years, I know that many of them are talented musicians. And, of that group, I bet more [...]

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