Friends, Welcome to my 11th newsletter. As we embark on a new year, it seems like the perfect time to write about facing the future with confidence – another one of the 13 skills that lead to happiness. You will…
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The Conscious Capitalism
Friends, Welcome to my tenth quarterly newsletter. There is a profound evolution that is happening in the US business community and around the world. At the core of this evolution is the recognition that capitalism has a much broader role to play…
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Living with Gratitude
Friends, Welcome to my ninth quarterly newsletter. In the last newsletter I dealt with the skill of “forgiveness,” one of the two skills that leads to peace about the past. In this I want to address the other skill of the past,…
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Mastering the Skills of Forgiveness
Friends, Welcome to my eighth quarterly newsletter. In this newsletter I want to address the skill of forgiveness, since most all of us struggle with this skill and also because it may be the most important of the 13 skills that lead…
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Mastering the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Friends, Welcome to my seventh quarterly newsletter. In this newsletter, I want to take on the subject of “Mastering the Stories We Tell Ourselves,” one of the most important of the 13 skills that lead to a flourishing life.…
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No Greatness without Goodness
Friends, Welcome to my sixth quarterly newsletter. In my first newsletter, I wrote about kindness and leadership. My contention was that “kindness and altruism lead to more effective leadership and organization effectiveness.” In this newsletter, I want to take…
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Enabling People to Flourish
Friends, Welcome to the fifth quarterly newsletter from White Pine Mountain, LLC. As most of you know, the subject of “happiness,” as defined by the science of Positive Psychology, has been a key focus of mine for the past 10+…
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Flourishing in the 2nd Half of Life
Friends, Welcome to my 4th quarterly newsletter. Having recently returned from leading a one week course at Canyon Ranch’s Life Enhancement Center in Tucson, AZ entitled “Encore: Flourishing in the 2nd Half of Life,” I thought I would use this…
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Resilience & Growth Newsletter
Friends, Welcome to my third newsletter. In this one I want to share thoughts on how to deal with setbacks in life, or how one might develop greater grit or resilience. There are four possibilities when we face a crisis…
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Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression challenged a President & Fueled His Greatness
By Joshua Wolf Shenk This is an excellent book about Lincoln’s depression. The principle lesson is one of wholeness, about integration…that we cannot understand another person without seeing the whole being, the whole person, the whole or integrated life. While President…
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