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

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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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Newsletter: It’s Harder to be Unhappy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Once we see the truth as it is, we can still view things optimistically and our plans gain more traction by doing so. [more] How do I know? I’ve worked...
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Newsletter: Horrible Holiday?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Peace to you this season. [more] It's December 16, 2008, and today is another bad news day for me. The news I'm getting is probably similar to yours. The report...
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Newsletter – “God’s Not Done With Us Yet” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

As I look back I am grateful for so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about gratitude I still have for people who believed in me. In fact, I have a...
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Newsletter: Enough

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The free enterprise system, like its consumers, seems now too focused on financial products and not focused enough on “making and trading”.  We are in danger of becoming insatiable gamblers. ...
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Newsletter: “Counter Intuitive Truths” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

In pondering what lessons I’ve learned in 2013, it became clear to me –once again– that solutions to complex problems are frequently simple. Although I have discovered this many times...
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Newsletter – An Excerpt of the Book “Empty Abundance – (Sure, You Can Have a Bike)”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The most enduring gift Mom and Dad gave all ten of us was their abiding faith that hard work and education create independence. When I was nine, I asked Dad...
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Newsletter: An Excerpt of the Book “Empty Abundance”

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

I know in my soul, as Bogle does, that I have more than enough. And so I spend most of my days working to serve those who serve the poor,...
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