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Dec.05.2010
Mysteries Are Everywhere You Look
1. Destiny isn't drafted, but revealed.
2. We are responsible for our actions, but not results. results lie with Destiny.
3. Life is a mystery. You are here. Why? Contemplate the miracle of your own birth. You had little to do with it.
4. This barren,...
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Nov.28.2010
Look To The Hills
1. Straight from a CEO’s assistant. She says the name of the game is (1) focus (2) figure it out (3) finalize and (4) forward HO. Lucky boss!
2. Waiters lacking peripheral vision fail. Same story with executives and parents.
3. Face up to the real issue. Rearranging...
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Nov.21.2010
It’s Time To Refigure
1. "Every answer is a new question." Karl Rahner, late Catholic theologian who had major impact on Vatican II. 2. Know where you belong? A New Yorker cartoon shows two fish walking ashore. One says to the other, “This is where the action is!” 3. If you...
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Nov.14.2010
Your Life Is A Poem, What's It's Life-Line?1. Many of us are like fine old furniture that's been painted over.
2. Be the best, they say! Best at what? Best to whom? Best for how long? Best for sure?
3. Open ‘n lopin, that's the way!
4. I like the poetry of almost everybody because they have the...
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Nov.07.2010
Becoming Your Own Person
1. Between us, we do different things for the same reasons and the same things for different reasons.
2. One musician may work for pleasure, another for money; one may compose for recognition, another may perform for i
3. Make no mistake, your competence is wrapped up in...
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Oct.31.2010
Who Are You? You Thought You Knew!
1. Stay fresh. Find ways to let breezes blow over you. Keep your life minty green. Red hot sky at sunset, cool silver dew in morning. Rhythm.
2. My friend writes poetry and sells gaskets--puts poetry into his work and gaskets into his poetry. His harmonizing...
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Oct.17.2010
You Have To Consider New Things
1. Lessons about work and career are wherever you find them. Team effort can be learned by studying an ant colony or attending a choral concert.
2. Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheer, raises morale, inspires associates, arouses loyalty, laughs at...
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Oct.10.2010
It's What You Do And When You Do It That Matters
1. When you wake up tomorrow, make your cells happy. Give thanks to your blood, water and amniotic fluid. Where would you be without them?
2. Tech guru Alan Kay has said perspective is worth 80 IQ points. He couldn't be more right--a carload of...
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Oct.03.2010
It's Critical To Stay Strong And Bounce Back
1. The poet says the most with fewest words. Isn't that productivity, quality, art? Isn't some of that what the art of work is all about?
2. There's poetry, color, and sound in a career. There are hammers, feathers, leather, lace, fear and cheer....
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Sep.26.2010
How Will You Define Your Leadership?
1. Because life across its full spectrum requires endless variability and flexibility, change is our constant.
2. Little things, particularly when they run together, send out the big messages.
3. Leadership, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. It always...
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Sep.19.2010
This Growth Thing Is Up To Me
1. Development is making no excuses, placing no blame.
2. Living is holding a bushell basket the rain runs through.
3. Failing is i seeing how you fell short and where your growth is from here.
4. Accomplishing is temporary. A good turn here is an opportunity to...
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Sep.12.2010
Time to Participate in the Everyday
1. So much I would learn reaches my eyes and ears, but not my heart. What then?
2. I heard a sound this week that had gone out of my life: the slamming of a screen door.
3. Change is changing to whom we are. That's noticeable and remarkable.
4. "Purity of...
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Sep.05.2010
Reflections Take Time
1. Listening to stories makes you smarter. Annette Simmons
2. A better part of wisdom is to not walk into a room speaking.
3. I felt the loneliness of summer past and the gap that comes with fall not arrived.
4. Poets don't make arguments; they reveal mysteries....
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Aug.29.2010
Not All Is As It Seems
1. Now, pre-fall, Marv tells me, the crickets begin singing in the daylight hours-even when the sun
is high in the sky.
2. The paper on which she writes marks the anniversary in days of civilization's birth.
3. How glorious to let the morning say itself.
4. ...
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Aug.22.2010
Your Course is Clear
1. "I am like all other men; like some other men; like no other man." Listen to Aeschylus. In life, express no-other-person qualities."
2. Separate your unique strengths from your "me-too" strengths and act on them.
3. We deny gifts as well as...
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About Allan
I am a CEO advisor & poet-blogger. I am author of 10 business books. Recently, I have released two new books: (1) WHOA! Are They Glad You're in Their Lives? June 12, 2012 and (2) The CEO in You July 9, 2012. The latter is a revised, expanded and...
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Causes Allan Cox Supports
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Gilda's Club (cancer) Chicago, Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago, Iona Center, Healdsburg, CA (all 401-C-3s...
Allan’s Favorite Books
The Glass Bead Game, Youngblood Hawke, Poetry (Jill Baumgaertner),The Courage to Be, The Heretical Imperative, The Soul of Rumi, Atonement, The Shipping News...
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