Empathy is More Than Just Giving Out Hugs

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This past weekend, I had some work done on Large Marge.  Large Marge isn’t my dog, she’s my competition BBQ smoker. I bought her last June from a guy in Lexington, KY.  I have a smaller one that I used to compete with, but it’s just a little too small.  Large Marge is...

HaRticles for the Week: November 30, 2022

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Here are your 3 articles for the week: 5 Ways to Create an Innovation Culture – Entrepreneur 6 Red Flags a Company Isn’t What it Seems – and You Probably Shouldn’t Take the Job – Business Insider How to Impress Your Boss When Working...

What’s On Your Mind?

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“If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” – Everyone’s Grandma at one time or another… I don’t have much of a relationship with Facebook anymore. I used to use it to essentially “collect friends” by “friending” everyone I knew that...

Unanswered Prayers

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Just the other night at a hometown football game My wife and I ran into my old high school flame And as I introduced them the past came back to me And I couldn’t help but think of the way things used to be She was the one that I’d wanted for all times And...

HaRticles for the Week: November 16, 2022

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Here are your 3 articles for the week What to Do if There Are Layoff Rumors at Your Company – The Motley Fool Leading Through Layoffs – How to Manage Workers on Their Way Out – and Those Who Stay – CNBC On-the-Job Training is a Useful Perk that...

HaRticles for the Week: November 9, 2022

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Here are your 3 articles for the week: Here’s Why You Should Approach Your Business Like an Artist – Entrepreneur 34 Words and Phrases You Should NEVER Use at Work – LoveMoney What Managers Can Do About Burnout – The Atlantic...

HaRticles for the Week: November 2, 2022

H aRticle Roundup

Here are your 3 articles for the week Do Core Values Still Matter Today? – Entrepreneur 7 Leadership Communication Blunders that Can Make or Break Your Business – Entrepreneur Quiet Quitters Beware You Job Could be at Risk in a Recession – The Motley...

If Everyone Cared

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If everyone cared and nobody cried. If everyone loved and nobody lied. If everyone shared and swallowed my pride. Then we’d see the day when nobody died. If Everyone Cared.  Nickelback. 2005. A few weeks ago, I left my house early to drive down to Tuscaloosa, Alabama...

U Can’t Touch This

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You can’t touch this You can’t touch this You can’t touch this You can’t touch this My, my, my, my (You can’t touch this) Music hits me so hard Makes me say “Oh, my Lord Thank you for blessing me With a mind to rhyme and two hyped...

Fake Happy

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I love making you believe What you get is what you see But I’m so fake happy I feel so fake happy And I bet everybody here Is just as insincere We’re all so fake happy Fake Happy: Paramour. 2017 COVID has given rise to a whole new way of living, working,...