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- Finding, Learning, and Remembering Life’s Lessonsby Applying Daily Learning Audit QuestionsYour Personal Daily Incremental Learning Audit One benefit of growing older is that every month brings a handful of messages from former clients, students, colleagues, friends, relatives, even strangers. They want to share some episode from their lives where something I said, wrote, discussed, or taught powerfully affected their life’s … Continue reading “Finding, Learning, and Remembering Life’s Lessons”
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- LUKASZEWSKI’S CONTENTION SURVIVAL MANIFESTOKeeping Yourself and the Things That Matter Under Control This manifesto is a personal and often publicly declared set of principles, policies, or intentions for addressing contentious public circumstances and situations, and behaving with integrity, honesty, and even good humor. These are the disciplines (real personal rules) for winning in the irritating, aggravating, agitating environment … Continue reading “LUKASZEWSKI’S CONTENTION SURVIVAL MANIFESTO”
- Your Mother Was Wrong About One Thing…“Words Will Never Hurt You…,” Is a Total Lie, But the Pain is Real and the Suffering Permanent. Remember, when you were five years old, and the first time you got beat up and shouted at on the playground by some kid you didn’t even know? Mom and Dad or Grandma and Grandpa said, “There, … Continue reading “Your Mother Was Wrong About One Thing…”
- Trump is the Architect of his Own FateHe Has Attacked So Many, So Frequently, For So Long He has left a lifelong trail of the humiliated, vilified, embarrassed, shamed, slimed, assaulted, victimized, and bullied. He seems to add to his victim lists every day. A catalog of Trump’s repeated and often doubled down relentlessly unconscionable, personal public attacks: The Personal Damage of … Continue reading “Trump is the Architect of his Own Fate”
- What Was Your Secret to Having a Long Marriage? First ResponsesHello again, when I published the request for questions last month I was a bit surprised at the responses, and also that I could comment on each one. Several had lessons that struck me from our life together, Barbara and I, running a business together, and growing old together. You’ll recall the questions was essentially, … Continue reading “What Was Your Secret to Having a Long Marriage? First Responses”