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misunderstood
September 21, 2016

Oh Lord, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

I would like to paraphrase a famous quote by writer Robert Louis Stevenson: “Don’t COMMUNICATE merely to be understood. COMMUNICATE so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood.” It is my opinion that so many successes and failures, both large and small, in life, in work, in families, can be attributed to either excellent or poor and unclear communication. How much better would things be if everyone concentrated just a little bit harder on communicating…speaking, writing, texting, emailing…more precisely. Look at the difference between these two questions: Is that job going to be ready today? vs. Is the business card job…

self improvement
July 8, 2014

A Man I’ll Never Be

Being happy and content in one’s own skin, both at work, at home and with family, should be a goal for everyone. It may be harder than it sounds, though. Do you always feel how people think you are? Do you have different “personas” for different areas of your life? Do people at work view you one way, and your family another? I don’t think there is any right or wrong answer necessarily, unless you feel conflicted or dishonest, like the writer of the Boston song “A Man I’ll Never Be.” He felt that the person he was with viewed…

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