Laura over at Pick the Brain posted an insightful article today. Summer flowers can teach us an great lesson about perseverance and humility.
They produce their seeds, containing the essence of themselves, and give them away. They send the seeds out into the world without any certainty of how many will land on fertile soil […]

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If you haven’t already seen it. Watch our short movie on The Simple Truths of Service. It will change the way you think about customer service. I got this e-mail from a reader yesterday. They’ve got their own "Johnny" who keeps people coming back to their store. Who’s your Johnny?

I was inspired to write to […]

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A reader sent me this yesterday, and I thought it fit in really well, considering our new movie You Can’t Send a Duck to Eagle School was released yesterday. Do you have what it takes to be an Eagle?
Eagles are the most long-lived bird in the world. By the time they reach 40 years old, […]

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It’s Monday again. It’s hard to keep a positive attitude when the alarm forgets to go off (that darn forgetful alarm clock), the expressway is backed up all the way to your driveway, and you spill coffee on yourself trying to turn the car around and take a different route to work.
Some days it seems […]

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If Randy Pausch can stay positive, anyone can. It goes to show that mindset means everything, and it really is a choice that you can make to have a positive attitude. He set the tone early on yesterday at his farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.

"If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I […]

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius
The best way out is always through.
-Robert Frost
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
-Lucretius
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-Francis […]

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