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Monday Morning Motivator: ONE CHIP AT A TIME...

ONE CHIP AT A TIME...

 

Well, this is definitely where the rubber meets the road. This is the moment: the dawn of a brand new, fresh, clean, never-before-touched, wide open year.  No die has been cast; no promises have been made - or broken. Absolutely anything is possible. And it’s all yours for the…

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Added by Gail Blanke on January 7, 2014 at 5:30pm — 2 Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: A CUP O’ KINDNESS...

A CUP O’ KINDNESS...

 

The beautiful, nostalgic, tear-producing, kiss-causing, heart-tugging song, “Auld Lang Syne,” written by the poet, Robert Burns in 1788 and set to a Scots folk melody, is considered one of Scotland’s finest gifts to the world. Sung every New Year’s Eve at the stroke of…

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Added by Gail Blanke on December 30, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: Falling In Love

FALLING IN LOVE...

 

Remember that wonderful old song, "The Christmas Waltz?” I love these lyrics: "It's that time of year...When the world falls in love...Every song you hear seems to say..."Merry Christmas, May your new year's dreams come…

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Added by Gail Blanke on December 23, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: Any Given Monday

ANY GIVEN MONDAY

 

You remember that terrific 1999 film, Any Given Sunday,directed by Oliver Stone and staring Al Pacino.

It's about a fictional football team, the once great Miami Sharks, who are struggling to…

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Added by Gail Blanke on December 19, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: Celebrating the Moments that Define Us...

Celebrating the Moments that Define Us...

 It's that time of year... the perfect time to take a look back at your "defining moments" from the past year - and "get it" about how really good, incredibly strong and  thoroughly unstoppable you are - as an individual - as a family, as a team.…

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Added by Gail Blanke on December 9, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: WE’LL MEET AGAIN

 

WE’LL MEET AGAIN

Within a week, Jim (my husband) and I attended two memorial services for very dear friends. Needless to say it was a tough few days- but it was also thought-provoking and even uplifting.

The first service was for the renowned British journalist, Jeffrey Blyth, former chief U.S. correspondent for The Daily Mail and weekly columnist for the UK’s Press…

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Added by Gail Blanke on December 2, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: RE-IGNITING THE SPIRIT

RE-IGNITING THE SPIRIT

 

With the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy's death, we've once again become fixated by his assassination, partly because of the news media - and partly, I guess, because it's human nature to play and re-play that beyond terrible moment in Dallas when our hearts broke and the whole world grieved...the day when we knew nothing would ever be the same again.…

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Added by Gail Blanke on November 25, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: Roger's Song

Roger’s Song

One of all-time my favorite clients was a guy who worked for an asset management company. His CEO had told him to beef up his communications skills. Well, this became one of the easiest assignments I’d ever had. Early in our conversation, Roger and I started to talk about sports. It turned out that Roger had been a star on his high school soccer team. We talked about his toughest game, one that he’d helped pull out of the fire to win the league…

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Added by Gail Blanke on November 18, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: GRACE UNDER PRESSURE...WINS

GRACE UNDER PRESSURE...WINS

 

 

Hitting below the belt or thereabouts, seems to be de riguer lately. "Confrontational" doesn't even begin to describe how many of us behave in what are supposed to be reasonable, "fact-finding" conversations. (Although discovering "facts" doesn't seem as important as collecting scalps.) "Conflagrational" seems a more accurate description. 

 

Okay, what I'm describing…

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Added by Gail Blanke on November 11, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: IT'S TODAY AGAIN!

IT'S TODAY AGAIN!

 

There was a very cute guy whom I dated a hundred years ago at Yale Drama School, who walked into class one sunny morning and said apropos of absolutely nothing, "Oh look! It's today again!" We all looked at him like he was crazy. In fact, he was sort of crazy which was part of his charm - both on stage and off. He had a lot of positive…

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Added by Gail Blanke on November 4, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: The Last Starfish

THE LAST STARFISH

 

He was huddled on a little stool, pressed into the wall of a building on Fifth Avenue about a half block down from Saks. He didn't have a sign in front of him and wasn't holding a cup. He couldn't. His hands were misshapen; almost as if they had been "put on" backwards. He just looked up and said quietly, "Please."

I kept walking. I was hurrying from…

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Added by Gail Blanke on October 28, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: JUST THE WAY YOU ARE...

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE...

 

 

Do…

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Added by Gail Blanke on October 21, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: OF TERRORISTS...AND TREES

OF TERRORISTS...AND TREES

 

There was no warning. Suddenly the lights went out in the bedroom of our house…

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Added by Gail Blanke on October 14, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: MONDAYS ARE FOR SINGING...

MONDAYS ARE FOR SINGING...

 

"You've got to have a song," I said in one of my Lifedesigns workshops. “What?!” a woman said,…

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Added by Gail Blanke on October 7, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

What Is Your Power Song?

POWER SONGS

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Added by Gail Blanke on October 6, 2013 at 10:12am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: Your Magical Listening Tour

YOUR MAGICAL LISTENING TOUR

 

The art of listening (and it is an art) is not practiced all that much anymore. "Already knowing"…

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Added by Gail Blanke on September 30, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: DON’T THINK ABOUT IT, JUST DO IT

 DON’T THINK ABOUT IT, JUST DO IT

 

Just when you might have thought all the “bad guys” were taking over, a “good guy” shows up and touches the lonely hearts and jaded minds of people from Hopkins, Minnesota to just about every village and hamlet in this eager-for-good-news country of ours. That’s where it happened: Hopkins, Minnesota at the Main Street Dairy Queen. The “good guy’s" name is Joey Prusack. He’s nineteen years old and is…

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Added by Gail Blanke on September 23, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: NO EXPERIENCE IS EVER WASTED

NO EXPERIENCE IS EVER WASTED 

 

Recently, someone whom I'd just met was reading my bio and noted that I'd majored in acting at Yale Graduate…

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Added by Gail Blanke on September 16, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: FIND A WAY

FIND A WAY

 

Diana Nyad's extraordinary success - being the first person to swim the 103 miles from Havana to Key West without the protection…

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Added by Gail Blanke on September 9, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

Monday Morning Motivator: THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN YOUR LIFE...

THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT DAYS IN YOUR LIFE...

 

Mark Twain wrote, “The two most important days in your life are - the day you…

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Added by Gail Blanke on September 2, 2013 at 5:00am — No Comments

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