On Tuesday morning, if someone had suggested I take the bulk of the day off to stay at home, I would have given several reasons why I could not do that, including: It was only my second day back at work after eight days of vacation; There were still over 100 emails and dozens of …
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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 #96: Celebrate What Is Important Again and Again
We celebrate many things. Weddings, for example, are great times to get together with friends and family and enjoy two people committing their lives to each other. We celebrate accomplishments educationally with graduation ceremonies. We recognize promotions and certifications professionally. We belong to various organizations that celebrate in their own ways what they value as …
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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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