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, “gratitude.”…

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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 to…

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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. I…

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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 this…

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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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Leadership and Happiness Newsletter

Friends, Welcome to my second quarterly newsletter. In the last newsletter, I dealt with the role that being altruistic/kind plays in effective leadership. I would like to stay with the leadership subject in this newsletter by providing a definition and…

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Altruistic Leadership Newsletter

Friends, Welcome to my first quarterly newsletter from White Pine Mountain, LLC. Below are the 13 skills that lead to happiness, that lead to a meaningful, joyful life. In this post, I want to deal with only one of these…

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