Leap Year Lesson #116: Everyone Has a Currency. What’s Yours?

The world is full of currencies.  We see the euro in many European countries.  I just spent eight days in China using the renminbi (RMB) or yuan.  For a few decades, the U.S. dollar has been the world's reserve currency.  No country's currency holds that status for too many decades, so I suspect we aren't …

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Leap Year Lesson #102: Admit When You Take On Too Much and Do Something About It

For the last few years I have occasionally taught a webinar on the contents of the book Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst. It's an excellent book filled with good advice on how to gain control over the huge amount of information that comes to you and from you daily. One of the critical ideas from the …

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Leap Year Lesson #67: Love Costs Everything

I watched a two-hour documentary Wednesday night at church called "Love Costs Everything." It is about the plight of 100-200 million Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith at any given time. It was humbling, gut wrenching, encouraging, scary and a number of other emotions all rolled into one. It brought tears …

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Leap Year Lesson #62: Life Is Fragile – Handle With Care

There is nothing like an emergency of some sort to remind us how much we take for granted. As I write this, the TV in the background is playing continuous news coverage of the destruction from the many deadly tornadoes that just passed through our area, obliterating stretches of homes and property about 20 miles …

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Leap Year Lesson #21: Use Your Capabilities To Do Good Things

A couple of weeks ago I had the annoying experience most computer users have at one time or another - some combination of those bothersome viruses, malware, trojans, etc. that make life miserable for a while until your PC is cleaned up. It wasn't too bad, but it was irritating that I had to spend …

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