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Weekly Book Review: Who Moved My Cheese?

By Mark Brown
It has been said that the only constant in life is change. One who doesn’t anticipate change of some sort—in careers, economics, home life, and more—is bound to be frustrated and possibly even angry when change comes his or her way.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your [...]

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Weekly Book Review: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

By Mark Brown
One of our recent blog posts asked “what is your recipe for success?” If success is a recipe, then it may also be true that constantly repeating that recipe will lead to stale leftovers. As we pointed out in that post, once you master the basics of the recipe, it’s time to “improvise [...]

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Weekly Book Review: The Speed of Trust

By Mark Brown
In the personal development field, few names have as much cachet as Stephen R. Covey. His book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a true classic, spawning or otherwise propagating such familiar terms as “begin with the end in mind,” “Put first things first,” and “seek first to understand, then to [...]

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Ben Comen and Living Without Limits

Ben Comen and Living without Limits
Ben Comen has cerebral palsy. Ben Comen ran for his high school’s cross country team. Those two statements usually don’t go together.
Perhaps one definition of character is not relying on excuses when excuses are readily available to us. Ben wanted to be part of a team, and paid the price [...]

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