What’s Next

For anyone asking what comes after the title, the paycheck, or the plan.

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Quote: Letter to a Young Activist

October 15, 2019

"Do not depend on the hopes of results. [more] When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face...
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Quote: Karma of Love

October 15, 2019

By JJ Dewey [more] "When the initiating cause is love in the direction of another human being, we then have the effect (karma) of love coming back to us from...
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Quote: It’s not the drink we crave…

October 15, 2019

Written by Beth Kloos [more] "It's not the drink we crave but the issues we bury with the drink that we crave to fix."
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Quote: If you do not feel connected to your noble purpose…

October 15, 2019

by Ann Ronan [more] "If you do not feel connected to your noble purpose, relax. You don't have to agonize over it. Your noble purpose is already a creative force...
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Quote: If wishes were…

October 15, 2019

"If wishes were [more] horses then beggars would ride, on clouds of white stallions with bright fiery eyes, chasing dreams of tomorrow into yesterday's skies." Written by Mason Williams
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Quote: Happiness is…

October 15, 2019

"Happiness is [more] neither the virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Written by William Butler Yeats
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Quote: Everything that irritates us…

October 15, 2019

"Everything that irritates us [more] about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves." Written by Carl Jung
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Quote: Don’t Aim at Success

October 15, 2019

"Don't Aim at Success" - by Viktor Frankl [more] "Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going...
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Quote: Celebrity graduation speakers: Wit and wisdom

October 15, 2019

Celebrity graduation speakers: Wit and wisdom from John Legend, singer and musician, for University of Pennsylvania College of Arts and Sciences [more] "Searching for the truth in many ways is...
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Quote: Being Safe Places for Others

October 15, 2019

"Being Safe Places for Others" by Henri J. M. Nouwen [more] "When we are free from the need to judge or condemn, we can become safe places for people to...
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Quote: An excerpt from the poem “Desideratta”

October 15, 2019

An excerpt from the poem "Desideratta" by Max Ehrmann [more] "With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
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October Newsletter: When You Run

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

A lyric in one of my favorite Avett Brothers songs (featured in Tim’s Library – Songs - April, 2010) states:                   "When you run, make sure you run, to something...
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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson

October 15, 2019

by Isabel Wilkerson Book Link Editor’s Note: Wilkerson is a first time book writer but a Pulitzer Prize winning feature writer for the New York Times. This epic non-fiction work...
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November Quote of the Month: Jessye Norman

By November Jessye Norman

October 15, 2019

“One has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself”  -Jessye Norman
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November Article of Interest:

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

(Link To Article) Editor’s note:   I’ve struggled all my life, as perhaps most of us have, with my faith.   I rarely doubt the existence of God be she...
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Newsletter: T’was Ever Thus

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Little good comes from panic, though through the hardest of times we are challenged to remain patient.  One way to do this is to remember that the more things change,...
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Newsletter – “The Most Difficult Person I’ve Ever Managed” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Several times a year, my son, Tim, and friend, Brian Bowers, and I speak to business management classes at Ohio State. Among the topics most discussed is managing people. Brian...
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Newsletter – “The Message is the Medium” by Tim McCarthy
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Newsletter – “The Message is the Medium” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant professor who coined the phrase “the medium is the message”.   Stated briefly, he believed that television, movies and advertising vehicles held a message just...
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Newsletter: Our Enemy is Despair

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Despair ruins more lives and organizations than obstacles do.  Obstacles, however difficult, can be overcome as has been shown by many heroes over time.  Despair cannot be overcome as it...
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Newsletter: Next, I Fight a Bull!

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Though never documented, it is legend that Ernest Hemingway said; to be a man, one must plant a tree, fight a bull, write a book and father a son. As...
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Newsletter: Looking Before Leaping

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Great organizations depend on great research and all ideas can and should be tested before  being rolled out into the market. [more] My first learning about research was probably from...
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