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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Helsinki airport, 2009, exhausted, but still writing. An aspiring writer must write. A lot.
The early settlers didn’t find farms they could purchase. First they had to claim, and then tame, an untamed frontier. Removing rocks, boulders, trees with deep roots. And all the while, survive the harsh realities of nature and the unknown.
Not sure how you feel as an aspiring writer (or your particular dream), but I often feel like a pioneer.
Years of laborious work before the first crop.
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It’s like poison, or a deadly odorless, smokeless, tasteless gas.
The fear of success. Sounds crazy, but what if you become famous? Do you have a plan?
Tiger Woods told me he was tired of being famous since day one.
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Many types of leaders in this world. Lots of good ones and pretty many really good ones, fewer still that are excellent.
But a servant leader? How many of those?
Someone who’d give their life for your benefit? How many?
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Lee Cockerell, Walt Disney World Executive Vice President (retired), and author of Creating Magic: Ten Common Sense Leadership Strategies From A Life At Disney, debuted his new iPhone app yesterday:
Downloaded it yesterday. Do it for yourself or as a gift for someone you care about.
Lee’s Droid app will be out soon, maybe 30 days.
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Who serves mankind as much as our trash collectors and cleaners?
To have a servant’s willingness to help others is among the noblest of qualities.
Don’t believe it. Leave your job and become a garbage collector, or a full-time toilet cleaner.
My guess is, you don’t have the guts. But if you did, consider what Martin Luther King said:
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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