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Liz Murray was only three years old when she realized that her parents were drug addicts. As the addiction unraveled her family, Liz, along with her older sister Lisa, found themselves living in filth and constantly hungry. Her parents spent most of the monthly welfare check on drugs, leaving only $30 per month for food […]
Like the South African leader Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression. The 66-year-old has spent most of the last two decades in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to military-ruled Burma. She is the daughter of the […]
Mike Reeder is a 63-year-old Vietnam War veteran who lost his legs in an explosion during combat. He returned to the U.S. looking for purpose and direction and found them during a chance encounter in a golf pro shop in 1988. The golf pro suggested he take a swing at it, and as God would […]
“You’re not disabled by the disabilities you have; you are able by the abilities you have.” Just ask Oscar Pistorius, a double amputee sprinter from South Africa. Oscar just ran a time of 45.20 seconds to win his race at the Provincial Championships for Gauteng North in the selection event for the South African National […]
There’s an old joke about how many psychiatrists it takes to change a light bulb: Only one, but it has to really want to change. Isn’t this true of almost anything? Melissa and I recently dined with a global venture fund CEO whose firm manages the money for several of the richest people in the […]
All of the traumatic events listed in the charts below will lead to stress. But I contend that if your life is led with purpose, you spend less time dwelling on the negative and focusing on the tasks at hand, gleaning the most positive things you can from any trauma. Life happens, but its how […]
I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. From Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem In Memoriam 27—1850 Is he right or wrong? Bella DePaulo, Ph.D., is the author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, […]
The April 16, 2012 Time cover story is “Heaven Can’t Wait — Why rethinking the hereafter could make the world a better place.” In the article, John Blanchard, executive pastor of the 4,000-member Rock Church suggests that “Heaven isn’t just a place you go—heaven is how you live your life.” I concur. Also quoted is […]
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. C. Northcote Parkinson had many variations of the same theme: any undertaking will exponentially expand in relation to the allotted resources. Just look at government pork barreling, bureaucracies where jobs are tightly defined, or even kids doing homework. When there’s a deadline, that’s […]
No, Jimmy Buffett and Warren Buffett aren’t relatives, but they are related. Jimmy probably made as much money investing in Berkshire Hathaway years ago as he has playing music. And Warren likes to jam with him. But where they are even more related is how they live their lives. You guessed it—in crescendo. Why stop […]