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Mark's RemarksHow Standing at Bus Stops Gained Me a Doctorate
A few weeks ago, I had the blessing of speaking at the memorial service of a lady named Thomasine Talbert. She was a close family friend and my fourth-grade teacher. In eulogizing her, I told the audience about how she had assigned my class a major project researching...
Eliminate Bad Habits
A friend recently shared an article on LinkedIn called “10 Bad Habits You Must Eliminate from Your Daily Routine” by Dr.Travis Bradberry. It’s a good article, and I want to focus on five bad habits Dr. Bradberry cites. 1. Impulsively surfing the Internet. I do this...
Getting Out of the Blocks in Your Career
Are you a Gen Zer and feel like your career can’t get out of the starting blocks? Are you a millennial and stuck? Are you at an age when people are telling you to retire, but you feel like you have not yet reached your potential? Then let me tell you about Kenny...
Back to the Nineties
Last week I spoke to members of the Better Business Bureau. I don’t know if anything I said made an impression, but I do know that something someone else wrote did. Back in the nineties, a newspaper writer included many sad and disturbing items about what was...
When People Trash Your Best
Many years ago, a lady wrote in Readers' Digest about an act she did to demonstrate her gratitude. She lived in Chicago, and her city was suffering from a heat wave. Newspapers wrote that Chicago's workers were in danger of dehydration. This woman decided to do...
The Actor
If you have read much of what I have written, you know I am big on offering your best at your job. Even when opportunities that you have earned are taken away. Even when your role is reduced because of petty jealousy. Author Chuck Swindoll writes about a high school...