by beres | 2018-06-04 | Life Lessons, Musings, Personal Responsibility
When young F. W. Woolworth was a store clerk, he tried to convince his boss to have a ten-cent sale to reduce inventory. The boss agreed, and the idea was a resounding success. This inspired Woolworth to open his own store and price items at a nickel and a dime. He...
by beres | 2017-03-29 | LifeStyle, Personal Responsibility, Poetry, Religious
I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day, I’d rather that you walk with me than merely show the way. The eye’s a better teacher and more willing than the ear, And counsel is confusing but example’s always clear. The best of all the...
by beres | 2017-03-25 | Church History, Conformity, History, Personal Responsibility, Philosophy, Politics, Religious, The Art Of Thinking
It never ceases to astound me how the lemming like quality of Tribal Mindsets work. The result is almost always the same; Selective Invincible Ignorance, with rarely the necessary attendant humility to acknowledge the possibility of being even a smidgen wrong. As I...
by beres | 2017-03-22 | Church History, Musings, Personal Responsibility, Religious
Since the inception of Christianity, every half millennium, we have seen a reformation. About 500 years after the death of the Apostles, we saw the completion of the evolution of the Church from a charismatic, vibrant, alive, Greek influenced organism, to an...
by beres | 2017-02-09 | Life Lessons, LifeStyle, Personal Responsibility
Deepak Malhotra, a Professor in the Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School had some really interesting things to say about quitting: “Quit early. Quit often. Be the best quitter you know.” “I’m not saying quit something because...
by beres | 2017-01-21 | Health, Personal Responsibility, Politics, Stupid, The Art Of Thinking
There is, underlying the place in which we now find ourselves, a process whereby we reached this point. It would seem that if this point may be characterized by anything, it might be that of division. Until and unless we address the root cause , I fear we are lost. I...
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