What’s Next

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

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It’s Not About You
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It’s Not About You

By Tom Rath

May 30, 2021

Editor’s note:  In keeping with blog theme, this month’s book is Tom Rath's (StrengthsFinders) brief research and personal experience-based book, “It’s Not About You”.  It’s hard to write in a...
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Who do you Admire?
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Who do you Admire?

By Tim McCarthy

May 30, 2021

My favorite blogger, Seth Godin, said recently that “ Attitude follows action far more often than action follows attitude.”  So, today, I’m writing about the people I admire most in...
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Fisher Road To Hollywood
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Fisher Road To Hollywood

By The Avett Brothers

May 1, 2021

Editor’s Note:  Thanks to Pete Accorti for sending this haunting song from my favorite musicians.  Seth and Scott and their bandmates always stretch melodies and lyrics, here even harmonies to...
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Occasion for Being Taught
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Occasion for Being Taught

By Mortimer J. Adler

March 29, 2021

No one who looks upon disagreement as an occasion for teaching another should forget that it is also an occasion for being taught. -Mortimer J. Adler
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Presence of the Lord
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Presence of the Lord

By Blind Faith

February 27, 2021

Editor’s note:   I ran into a live Clapton Winwood recording of this song and memories came flooding back.  Blind Faith was one of many “supergroups” who came and went...
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Maturity Is
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Maturity Is

By Ray Dalio

February 27, 2021

I learned that if you work hard and creatively, you can have just about anything you want, but not everything you want. Maturity is the ability to reject good alternatives...
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Let It Be Me
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Let It Be Me

By Ray LaMontagne

January 31, 2021

Editor’s note:  Continuing with our February theme of “asking for help”.  Favorite lyric: “That's when you need someone Someone that you, you can call When all your faith is gone...
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Practice of Generosity
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Practice of Generosity

By Subhadramati

December 31, 2020

The practice of generosity is a wisdom practice, because it’s aligning you with the real truth of things: what you think of as yours, as part of your identity, is...
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The Liberal Art of Management – Peter Drucker
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The Liberal Art of Management – Peter Drucker

By Tim McCarthy

December 31, 2020

Peter Drucker was a professor and consultant who is often called the inventor of modern management theory. He was an early observer of such widely-accepted management concepts as MBOs (management...
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Farthest Shore
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Farthest Shore

By David Wilcox

November 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: Wilcox was my favorite during my crushing middle learning years. I remember playing this song for my aging Mom while driving her to my sister’s home in the...
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This is Not a Dress Rehearsal
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This is Not a Dress Rehearsal

By Tim McCarthy

October 31, 2020

About forty times a year, at the end of Vistage (CEO peer group) sessions, I say, “don’t get caught in the dressing room rewriting the script of your life. This...
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The Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings
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The Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

By The Avett Brothers

September 29, 2020

  When my body won't hold me anymore And it finally lets me free Will I be ready? When my feet won't walk another mile And my lips give their...
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Nothing but Deterioration
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Nothing but Deterioration

By JB Macaulay, written in 1830 as comment to widespread news that “America will never be the same”.  Thanks to Randy Martin

August 30, 2020

“We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point – that we have seen our best days.  But so said...
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Feeding My Head AND My Body

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Barbara Cartland said, “You become what you think. You are what you eat”. I heard a similar quote in the 1970s and it has come back to me many times...
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We’ll Make It Through
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We’ll Make It Through

By Ray LaMontagne

August 30, 2020

Editor’s comment:   Thanks to Mike Utesch for sending this new RL song onto me.  With all that’s going down in all our lives, I love the very thought of...
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Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels
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Furnishing Eternity by David Giffels

August 30, 2020

Editor’s note: Thanks to friend, Frank Dixon, for turning me onto Giffels, a local (Akron) professor and writer. Don’t let the theme of building his own coffin (yes, that’s the...
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Living in Surplus by Seth Godin
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Living in Surplus by Seth Godin

By Tim McCarthy

August 30, 2020

Editor’s note: My life has essentially been a (still) unending struggle to move from deficit to surplus thinking.  I’m making progress.  Original Article: In our culture, it’s easy to choose...
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The Overstory
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The Overstory

By Richard Powers

August 1, 2020

Editor’s note:  Two reasons to avoid this book, kindly referenced by my friend, Joe Gibson: a. you’re looking for recreational reading (I had to strain to stay on track) or...
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I Shall Be Tomorrow
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I Shall Be Tomorrow

By Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum

July 28, 2020

“Up to a point a person’s life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp...
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Self-Knowledge

By Maria Popova

July 28, 2020

Because self-knowledge is the most difficult of the arts of living, because understanding ourselves is a prerequisite for understanding anybody else, and because we can hardly fathom the reality of...
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Reinvention
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Reinvention

By Tim McCarthy

July 27, 2020

Events in the lives of each of our three children are becoming opportunities for their personal reinvention. Each are facing major life changes and so they must decide who they...
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