In his classic, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis said, “Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.” This week in…
According to an article in the Harvard Business Review, for every compliment a person receives, he/she has had to endure SIX or more criticisms…and we wonder why the workplace can be so miserable. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall!” How often…
This past Sunday millions gathered together to watch the epic finale of the 2015-2016 football season, Super Bowl 50 (“50” because our society struggles with Roman Numerals and “50” in Roman Numerals is simply “L”… and that’s boring). On Monday, hundreds of thousands of those fans took to social media to debate the best commercials,…