“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world
but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
There are many ways to define success. The truth is – they don’t really matter. What matters is how you define success. So….
How do you define success? In other words, how do you know when you’re successful? Continue reading
What do you get when you have a friendly 3-year goldendoodle, thousands of people running, and an electric fence with no power? The perfect conditions for Dozer the Dog to join a Half-Marathon race already in progress!
It seems Dozer saw all these people running by his house so he decided to join them and ended up running a half-marathon, unbeknownst to his family! He also raised over $24,000 for the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center in the process.
Richard St. John presents the 8 secrets to success in a 3-minute slideshow and talk at TED. The secrets are based on the answers from 500 interviews over 7 years.
“Peace begins with a smile.”
– Mother Teresa
Using brain scans and heart monitors researchers in Britain were able to assess the value of a smile. They found that: Continue reading
At first I thought, if I write about the rioting that happened after the Canucks hockey game then I’m giving attention to the perpetrators – something they likely crave. But then I thought, what about the citizens who tried to intervene or those who descended on downtown Vancouver the next morning to clean up the mess? Those people deserve to be recognized.
“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”
~ Author Unknown
Obviously, the two guys who tried to stop people from breaking the windows at the Bay and the man who tried to stop a group from breaking into Sears embodied the above quote. As did the people who protected bystanders who were injured. Continue reading
