Finding The Fountain of Youth: My Personal Beatlemania

By Robert J. Ottaviani Beatlemania 1964 I’ve just seen THE BEATLES. I’ve just seen THE BEATLES. I watched them stride on stage one-by-one sporting their trademark dark pegged pants tucked neatly inside their Beatle boots while a neatly tailored buttoned suit coat with a nehru collar framed their slender shoulders while wagging their mopped haired [...]

How Much Grounding Is Good?

Distinguishing Your Work from Your Life By Jack Clifford We are naturally grounded. We are taught that dreaming can be bad, dangerous and if you dream too much it will hold you back in life. Our parents, family and friends have bought into the system, and thus if we don’t follow along something is wrong. [...]

Letting A Run Go Every Once In A While

Allowing Time For Life To Sneak Up While Still Getting Your Miles By Greg Albert I am a creature of habit. I believe in self-discipline and holding myself to goals that I set out. That self-discipline helped me immensely in law school when I could have been watching TV and playing video games all the [...]

Life Lessons Via Bert

By Robert J. Ottaviani Parents are not like free refills. You have one set, drink them slowly You may love, be loved, and be in love but you will never fully understand love. It is far too complex, mercurial and has layer after layer of depth. It is both vast and infinite and forever challenging. [...]

I AM WHAT I ATE …

When the phone rings no one hopes that it is the doctor. By Karina Reeves So, I thought that my 40s were going to be the best years of my life. I’m not saying this year has not been good but it’s definitely been filled with loss, grief, discovery and growth. A growth spurt, in [...]

6 Types of People

Which Are You? By Robert J. Ottaviani I believe that there are six types of people who interact with each other on this earth. They are as follows: THE ONE UPPERS: We have all encountered these types along the way. Your telling a story and when you are finished with your story it pales in [...]

THIS IS NOT THE DREAM

The Working From Home Lifestyle Revolution By Jim Calder My wife woke up recently and said, “Wouldn’t it be great if we just had to wake up and walk downstairs to work? Think of all the time we would save, we could shower at lunch and wouldn’t have to spend an hour getting ready in [...]

Are You Listening

The Lost Art of Opening Your Ears By Robert J. Ottaviani The bald eagle, the bog turtle, the African elephant, the blue whales, the gorillas, the lynx, the snow leopard, the giant panda, the black rhino, the whooping crane and the rarest of all sightings … the listener. All of the these aforementioned items share [...]

The Technologically Overstimulated Army

Another Way To Look At Things By Jim Calder Do you have trouble focusing? Find that you are staying up later and later on the computer? Feel like you can never just focus your attention on one thing or project? The solution is simple, turn all your shit off permanently and go see a doctor. [...]

Join The “Construction People”

By Jim Calder I am in the construction business, and have been for several years now. I don’t physically build houses, buildings, roads, etc. What I have been trying to build—or better yet to help build—are people. On our team, the “construction people” we believe that the more people that do well increases our chances [...]

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