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Laziness

I love dipping into Seth Godin's little advice titbits. They always seem so poignant for some reason. In any case, this is a recent find that puts a new spin on an old foible, so I just had to pass it along. Laziness I think laziness has changed. It used to be about ...

SORRY IS JUST A WORD.... an apology is a whole experience

I would like to introduce you to Yvonne Ingley; a lovely, wise woman I have been fortunate enough to hear speak on several occasions. The last time she gave a presentation entitled: SORRY IS JUST A WORD.... an apology is a whole experience and she was kind enough to write ...

25 Traits Every Successful Entrepreneur Must Have

Regardless of your definition of success, there are, oddly enough, a great number of common characteristics that are shared by successful businesspeople. You can place a check beside each characteristic that you feel you possess. This way, you can see how you stack up. Even if you don't have all ...

Working Moms' Kids Turn Out Fine, 50 Years of Research Says

Another day, another study on whether women who work are jeopardizing their children's well-being. According to a review of 50 years of research on the subject, kids whose moms went back to work before the kids were 3 years old had no worse academic or behavioral problems than kids ...

10 Food Rules To Cure Your Kids' Picky Eating Habits (the French Way)

Emily Fleischaker of Bon Appétit recently shared an article where she interviewed Karen Le Billon author of French Kids Eat Everything explaining how the book came to be and sharing her 10 simple rules. Four years ago, Karen Le Billon's young daughters were hugely picky eaters: Mealtime food fights were frequent, ...

Supreme Court's Wal-Mart ruling hurts all working women

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court rejected one of the largest class-action suits in history. The group of women who sued Wal-Mart ten years ago on the grounds that women are regularly paid less, and given fewer opportunities than their male counterparts, were told that a sex discrimination charge could not ...

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach. A voracious reader from age three, Adora Svitak's first serious ...

Misfit Entrepreneurs

Imagine Walt Disney at the age of nineteen. His uncle asks him what he plans to do with his life, and he pulls out a drawing of a mouse and says, "I think this has a lot of potential." Or Springsteen. In a concert he once told the story of how ...