Today at The Gathering we completed our first series of the year, “4 Dumbest Things We Do During Down Times,” with installment number four, “We Wait It Out and Get Left Behind.”
This is a talk about the true meaning of patience; that virtue that sees us through down times.  An awfully lot of people misunderstand [...]

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Today at The Gathering we continued in our current series, “4 Dumbest Things We Do In Down Times,” with installment number three, “We Sell Short And Get Short-Changed.”
You know what selling short is; it’s buy at one price, sell at a loss.  And you do it, not because you want to, but because you’re afraid. [...]

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Today at The Gathering we talked about the second dumbest thing we do during down times.  It’s called downsizing.   We hear a lot about it as corporate America tries to adjust itself to the new realities of the wall-less, wireless, worn-out world.
The first thing we talked about were the three living landscapes that we all [...]

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For all of us, we play two essential roles in life: those of leader, and follower.  In some environments you’re a leader, and in other environments you’re a follower.  Let me suggest one environment in which you are always responsible to take the lead; and that is, in your own life.
You are the president of [...]

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We live in transitional times.  You can call it a recession, a downturn of the market, whatever you want to, but things are changing, and changing forever.  If you know how to deal with it and face it positively, you can benefit from it.
But most people that I listen to want to put their head [...]

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Several years ago I went through an experience not unlike what a lot of people go through.  But for me, the biggest loss was the friendships that I had, that I lost overnight for reasons I couldn’t understand.
Over the last two and a half years I’ve met some of the people who we had pledged [...]

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I’m a sports-guy and I read a lot of sports news; probably a lot more than I should.  And if you’re not, this story may not be on your radar, but it does illustrate an important point.  Last week, one of Brett Favre’s teammates on the New York Jets went on the radio and basically [...]

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