Last Tuesday, we had the privilege of having motivational speaker and psychotherapist Sean Stephenson speak to our entire team at work. I'd first met Sean several months ago after which we featured Sean in an issue of Bottom Line/Personal: "If I Can Be a Success, So Can You!"

Sean is not just your run-of-the-mill motivational speaker. He truly walks the walk and here's why: He was born with Brittle Bone Disease, and wasn't expected to live past the day he was born. He suffered more than 200 bone fractures by age 18, reached a height of only 3 feet, and is permanently confined to a wheelchair.

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My father recently sent me an article from Commentary magazine entitled "Punctuality Improvement Program." I didn't take it in a bad way. He knows, and I know, that I am "time-challenged." In the end, this article was nothing but headline -- since it was actually the title of a short story rather than offering useful advice. But, believing that there was a message for me in this... I looked back into our archive for something we've done on this topic. Clearly, it's time (no pun intended) for me to refocus my efforts on timeliness.

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Last week, I found out that I'm a "base-level Reactor, stage 2 Workaholic in a Persister phase." Sounds impressive, right? Okay… you're actually probably thinking, "What the heck does that mean?"

I just returned from a three-day mind-blowing seminar run by Joseph and Judy Pauley about Process Communication Management (PCM). That doesn't sound very exciting, but the fact that they used PCM to reduce the number of accidental deaths at a leading hospital from 700+/year to zero certainly got my attention.

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I met a woman, Stephanie, last week who had the phrase "This too shall pass" tattooed on her inside left wrist. Intrigued, I asked her about it.

Stephanie explained to me that the phrase is from a story about King Solomon, who asked his wise man to find a certain ring with magic powers. When a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy. The wise man searched for many months, and brought him a ring engraved with the words, "This too shall pass."

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I met a man last week who told me how Dale Carnegie changed his life. Back around 1970, a few years into his career, Donald took the Dale Carnegie course, which is based on Carnegie's classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Prior to taking the course, Donald was uncomfortable speaking publicly. No, that's an understatement.

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