Did you hear the story about the nine year old girl who escaped the jaws of an alligator? The gator grabbed her on the leg. She hit the gator on the head and that didn’t work. She then stuck her fingers up the gator’s nose to affect its breathing. Needing to breathe, the gator opened […]

In a word, what is a veteran? “Selfless”? A soldier sacrifices his individuality to become one of the troop. He wears the uniform. He follows commands. He embraces the mission. A war is only won when the soldier values the cause and his comrades more than himself. “Courageous”? To join the troop is to step […]

Previous Posted from January 16, 2011 Neil Pasricha is a guy from Canada. His parents were immigrants from India. He had a good life as his parents raised him in an environment not like theirs-stark poverty.  But, one of the middle class in North America with birthday parties and McDonald hamburgers. As he became an […]

I’m following a blog by Tina Seelig. She is from the Design school at Stanford University and is chronicling her path to her 60th birthday. In one of her first entries, she writes: “It takes considerable effort to focus our attention beyond what we anticipate, especially when we’re dealing with familiar experiences. For example, we […]