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Misunderstandings are everywhere. It’s like the student pilot who was asked over the radio to state his altitude and location. He replied, “I’m five feet nine and I’m in the left-hand seat.” When my father was in a nursing home, the patients’ food allergies were posted on a large sign above their beds. One day a visitor approached the …
Communication breaks down all the time. It could come from our strange language, where a fat chance and a slim chance mean the same thing. It could come from an inability to listen and comprehend. When five-year-old Timmy found a dead robin, he thought it should be given a proper funeral. He found a small box, put in the …
In my most recent Journey-to-the-Extraordinary program, one participant asked why some people succeed while others fail. Then she gave several examples of unlikely people succeeding and unlikely people failing. She, herself, was one of the unlikely people who had succeeded in life. She was one of nine children born into a poverty-stricken family that was verbally, physically, and sexually abusive. …
If you want more of anything in your life … an improved relationship, a different career, a stronger bottom line, a healthier body, a bigger bank account … ANYTHING … it always, always, always requires leaving your comfort zone. In other words, you can’t go on doing the same thing the same old way and expect better results. That’s …
