"A young man needs to enter life equipped for rough weather. However much of calm may prevail on land, it usually blows out at sea. The most serious question the novitiate can ask of himself is how he is going to keep from being a castaway. I am not using that term with any reference to …
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The Answer
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. - Lao Tzu One of my greatest joys as an entrepreneur is having the privilege to set the stage upon which those within my sphere of influence can enter into self-discovery. The workplace can …
Living from the Inside Out
A newborn child has no dreams, no hopes, no failures, no past experiences in particular that stand in the way of simply being himself in the moment. His desire to achieve has not yet come to focus and he knows nothing other than being who he is, where he is and how he is. He …
The Quicksand of Reason
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us." ~ Jane Austen You can tell a lot about a person by participating in a sporting …
People of Accomplishment
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." ~ Leonardo Davinci I feel blessed to be friends with a great many people of accomplishment, people whose life work is the betterment of humanity. Some may …
An Ode to my Friends on a Hot Summer’s Morn’
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better." ~Plutarch Sympathy is the death knell of a good friendship. Empathy, on the other hand, is a restorative balm that heals life's cuts and scrapes. Sympathy says to another "you are right to …
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Gregory Hake 