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Leap Year Lesson #349: Dig Deeper For Understanding
As the nation deals with yesterday’s tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, the long process of grieving begins. I appreciate stories from antiquity that tell of allowing long periods of mourning – a month...
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Leap Year Lesson #364: Sip Wisdom Slowly
I’ve been reading through the biblical book of Proverbs recently. It’s the kind of book that one can (and should) read over and over again because of the wisdom it contains. In fact, it’s one of the...
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Leap Year Lesson #365: You Can Learn If You Try
One of the enormous takeaways from writing a daily lesson learned for all of 2012 is the realization that it is possible to learn something every day if you try. Some days it’s easy because you have...
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Leap Year Lesson #366: Accomplishing Big Goals Instills Hunger for Bigger Ones
This is it – daily lesson #366 for this leap year 2012. What an adventure! When I set the goal at the end of 2011 to write a daily lesson learned for 366 straight days with each post no longer than...
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Set Goals for Body, Mind and Spirit
To start 2013, I want to share with you my goals. In an attempt to be fairly well-rounded in them, I have made sure to include some in the categories of body, mind and spirit. I make them public to...
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Top Ten Posts for 2012
Below are the most viewed posts on this blog during 2012. If you missed one of them or have long since forgotten what it was about, check it out. Most are quick lessons learned of 366 words or less...
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7 Lessons Learned From Blogging Every Day of 2012
I knew that accomplishing the goal of writing a brief lesson learned blog post for all 366 days of 2012 would be a challenge. I had never attempted anything remotely close to that before, so the...
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Lessons From American Idol
My wife and I have enjoyed watching American Idol for years. I missed the first season, but have been a big fan since then. Now that we’re into the phase where America votes weekly on who remains, I...
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Book Review: “The Millennials” by Thom S. Rainer and Jess W. Rainer
If you’d like to better understand the Millennial generation, also known as Gen Y – those born approximately between the years 1980 and 2000 – then I suggest you read the book The Millennials:...
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When You’ve Made a Bad Decision
What do you do when you realize you’ve made a bad decision? I hate saying “it depends,” but correcting bad decisions really does depend on the significance of the decision and the reality of the new...
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My 500th Blog Post – So What?
This is my 500th blog post at JeffRossBlog.com. What started as an experiment related to PhD studies I was pursuing in April 2011 has gradually morphed into something very meaningful for me and...
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Thanks for a Great Beginning to #ESNchat!
What a whirlwind of a week! The last several days have been among the most hectic, exhausting and exciting days I have had in a long time. Besides the normal activities that contributed to this nearly...
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Lessons From My Dog
For years I’ve kept a tall poster hanging beside my favorite chair. The poster is titled “All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From my Dog.” It contains the following advice which makes perfect...
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2013 Lesson Learned: Rest
During December I will sprinkle throughout the month a few posts regarding key lessons learned for the past year. I’ll kick off the lessons with this post on the subject of rest. I have noticed both my...
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2013 Lesson Learned: Take Risks
Continuing with periodic posts in December about the major lessons learned throughout 2013, today I turn my attention to the matter of taking risks. Each of us takes risks daily to some extent. We do...
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2013 Lesson Learned: Work At Being Healthy
Nobody would ever accuse me of being the picture of health or a model of purely healthy behavior. There is room for improvement in my diet, exercise and sleep patterns. Still, one of the major...
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12 Tips for Building a Successful Enterprise Social Network – Part 12
In this final post in my series on building a successful enterprise social network (ESN), I draw on my learning background and goal orientation. That said, tip #12 is: Never be satisfied – keep...
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