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Balancing Act: The Newsletter(No. 257, January 2021) |
Balancing act is in four sections this month: |
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Instead of looking forward with amazingly short-lived resolutions, why don’t we look back in introspection? Over the past year: • Did you begin, work on, and/or finish that book you’ve been considering forever? • Have you launched new value that can be delivered in a remote and virtual environment? • Did you improve your relationships with family members, friends, and/or colleagues? • Have you increased your savings and put cash aside? • Have you offered help or volunteered? • Did you contribute financially to a good cause, no matter how modestly? • Did you read more widely, learn things beyond business, such as history, biographies, science, and fiction? • Have you been more forgiving, trying to see opinions, calmly expressed, which are other than yours as different and not necessarily inferior, and the holders of those opinions as equals? • Did you engage in the arts, through virtual performances or broadcast performances? • Do you feel better supported and have you made others feel better supported? • Are you more appreciative of life today than a year ago? |
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When I formed my own company, my New Jersey attorney sent me a message to provide him with three names. I didn’t know why, so I sent back Danielle, Jason, and Buck, my two kids and my dog. He then called me. “I’m looking for company names, and I need three in case the others are already in use. Or do you want to name your company ‘Buck’?” I live in Summit, so I became Summit Consulting Group. Good thing I didn’t live in Mediocre, NJ. |
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