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March 17, 2015
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe
A hundred years ago, one of my favorite poems, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot, was published in the June, 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.
While the poem has now become quite influential in the world of modern poetry, its significance was initially overlooked by critics. In London on June 21, 1917, The Times Literary Supplement printed the following unsigned review:
“The fact that these things occurred to the mind of Mr. Eliot is surely of the very smallest im...
March 10, 2015
The Spotlight of Now
The auditorium of our future is always pitch-black, and we never know for sure what will happen in that time to come. We can write appointments on our calendars, pay in advance for our front row seat, and anticipate the appearance of a favorite guest. But even though we are always seated in the front row center of our lives, we can observe nothing but the performance that the spotlight of “now” illuminates in a bright circle on stage.
I recently celebrated my seventy-fifth birthday at a dinner...
March 3, 2015
Living by Principle
At breakfast yesterday my granddaughter asked me to teach her about investments and how to handle money. This is an excellent question for anyone, especially a new college graduate headed to medical school.
I thought of Warren Buffet, who is the most successful investor of the twentieth century. How successful? According to Wikipedia, in 2008 (at age seventy-eight), “Buffett became the richest person in the world, with a total net worth estimated at $62billion.”
How did he do it? The answer is...
March 2, 2015
February 24, 2015
You Don’t Always Have to Answer the Telephone
When I was growing up we had one telephone in our home. My brother and I were instructed always to answer it after the second ring. One afternoon the telephone rang at an inconvenient time. My mother said, “You don’t have to answer it.”
“But Mom . . . “
Maybe she was tired. Maybe she knew who was calling and didn’t want to talk to them. For whatever reason, Mom said, “Alan, you don’t always have to answer the telephone.”
I thought about this for years, and I now realize that my Mom’s permission...
February 19, 2015
Book Giveaway Continues with The Leadership Challenge - Jim Kouzes
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February 18, 2015
After Sales Service: The Key to Long-Term Growth
The success of every business is based upon relationships. When I started my commercial real estate company more than forty-five years ago it took me a month to raise my first $5,000 of capital. Today I raise $1,000,000 with one email. Why? Strong relationships, which I have built by providing continuing after sales service.
The importance of after sales service is simple, but often ignored: It takes far more time and energy to gain a new customer than to sell your product repeatedly to those...
February 17, 2015
Special Note for Blog Subscribers
Dear cherished followers,
Alan is steadily and successfully completing the manuscript for his next, highly-anticipated People Tools for Love and Relationships: The Journey from Me to Us, to be released September 2015. His weekly blog post will be up tomorrow morning, Wednesday February 18. Stay tuned for freshly shared stories and insight!
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February 10, 2015
You Are My Valentine
If you are looking forward to St. Valentine’s Day, as I am, you might wonder who to thank for this most romantic of days. Through the miracle of Google and Wikipedia I have discovered that you should send a card to Geoffrey Chaucer.
The “first recorded association of Valentine’s Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer.”
In those days, when spelling was a free-for-all, here is what Chaucer wrote:
For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there...
February 6, 2015
Book Giveaway - Mark Goulston's "Just Listen"
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