In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey talks about a phenomenon he calls a paradigm shift. It happens when new information radically changes your understanding of a situation or life or reality itself. His illustration involved riding on a subway train on a Sunday morning in New York. He was quietly enjoying his newspaper, but several children were horse-playing all around him and their apparent father wasn’t doing anything to control them. Covey got irritated, until he finally asked the father if he could settle them down a bit. The father quickly apologized and explained that their mother had just died and they didn’t know what to do. And he didn’t either.
Read MoreHave you ever flown Allegiant? I like to think of it as “The Little Airline that Could” because as the jet is climbing to altitude, if you listen very carefully you can hear the engines say, “I think I can, I think I can.”
Read MoreNot many of you will remember Dooley Wilson, at least not as Dooley Wilson. You may remember him better as the faithful, beloved singer Sam, as in “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca (although Humphrey Bogart never actually says that.)
If you’ve never seen Casablanca, you should. If you have seen it, you may remember the first song we hear Dooley Wilson sing, “Knock on Wood.”
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