One of my companies, Energetix Corporation, launched a new stress reduction initiative today. Modeled after programs currently running in companies like General Mills, Google, Apple and Deutsche Bank, we're offering training in yoga and meditation as a means of generating a higher degree of mindfulness. Mindfulness is defined as being "a state of being fully present, …
Inspiring Greatness
“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.” - Vincent van Gogh To my mind, the growth and development of people is the highest calling of a small business owner …
Silence
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin Looking back over my life I must say that I have been more often repentant for things I have said than for times of inapposite …
Simplicity and Wholeness
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with …
I Shall Overcome!
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson You have the opportunity - every single morning of your life - to set the tone for the day to come. Many people go to bed defeated and rise defeated day after day, convinced that the …
The Sense of the Beautiful
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not so much a question if there …
Birds and Bees
While manning my new Cooper's Hawk last evening (a process falconers take new birds through which requires hours of sitting and bonding with a wild bird in preparation for the hunting season), I watched the first 40 minutes of a documentary released in 2009 called Vanishing of the Bees. To make a long story short, …
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Antibiotics will prove to be either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern medicine, depending on how they are used over the next decade. As powerful medicines that combat harmful bacteria, modern antibiotics have saved many lives since their discovery in the 1930s. The concept of using chemicals to fight bacterial infections was …
To Hope
Hope only springs eternal in those who remain true to the truth, regardless of external pressures. Hope is the pilot light which ignites the passionate fires of faith, though it too can be extinguished by the turbulent winds of frantic activity when darkness is upon the face of the deep. When you face the unknown, …
Every Man a Word
If, as James A. Garfield wrote, "The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word", then Garfield himself left an ineffaceable word of victory, of the triumph of truth over deception, upon the pages of the history of man. His approach was …
Gregory Hake 