" I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it, and how this affects our dealings with others. Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of. "
" The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. It gets to the point where I don’t email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me. "


The day’s training is over. Albert collapses exhausted onto his camp-bed. He’s fuming! He sees very little of the war from inside these walls, here where the recruits receive their military training. He has no real connection with his comrades. Albert makes no effort. Being of strong and independent character, he longs for something more. His heart is not in it. The training is demanding! The frustrations keep growing. His performance is not up to scratch! His instructors don’t think much of him. Albert feels once again that he’s going to have to make things change. If he wants to fight, to prove himself, he’s going to have come to a decision? But what can he do? Everything seems to be against him!
One day he hears that deserters are being sent to the front. That’s the sign he’s been waiting for! It’s decided. Albert escapes but makes sure that he is quickly caught. He’s locked in a cell where a terrible anguish grips him. Has he gone too far? He is taken unceremoniously to an officer who’s looking at his notes. Raising his head, he curtly asks him the reason for his desertion. Albert answers frankly: “The bad soldiers are sent up there (that is, to the front), and I want to go where the fighting is.”
The shot achieves its objective. He receives his assignment with the 27th Alpine Battalion of Foot Soldiers, stationed in Lorraine! Hurrah!
The train is full of soldiers and equipment. An interminable journey is taking shape. Albert feels that this time he is facing a destiny that he himself has chosen. He is finally being sent into battle!
The rest will follow soon…


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It's been said many times: When bad things happen, you know who your true friends and family are. They stick around for the tough stuff, right? So, what might we do about these fair-weather friends and why are they so heartless to abandon us in our time of need?
Have you been through a hardship such as a divorce, job loss, illness, only to discover the people you thought and expected would be there, are nowhere to be found?
Is it difficult to understand why people who call themselves friends and family suddenly disappear when you need them most?
If you’ve ever experienced a tough transition without a feeling of solid support from friends and family it’s highly possible you may have also felt (or are feeling) levels of resentment and rejection.
You probably feel alone—even if you’re certain God is with you. It may feel impossible to breathe as you go about your day. If you want to know what to do the next time a friend leaves you alone to lick your wounds...read on…
When So-Called True Friends Ghost You
Over a decade ago I was faced with the divorce process and transition into co-parenting. My divorce was a mutual and healthy decision for our family. Still, I was in need of some major emotional care and a guide to help me see through my tears.
I’m grateful for the friends and family that were there for me. I got lost when I didn't know how to deal with those who weren't there for me—so-called friends who treated me like I had the plague and others who pretended I wasn’t even in the room. I seemed to have morphed into some scary disease circling as a ghost at times. Nothing fun about becoming an instant invisible death threat!
As with most divorces, I was hit with the loss of support from some long-time friends, people I had grown close to, and some family members who were nowhere to be found after I reached out to leave blubbering messages of neediness.
Where have all these pe-op-le gone, I sputtered to myself in between inhaling my bottom lip and blowing my nose?
I was devastated! It was hard enough to reach out for help, only to be rejected or ignored by those who supposedly love me. Boo-Hoo-Hoo became my daily theme for a while.
Begin to See Past the Woe-Is-Me
This period of woe-is-me didn’t help to move me forward in any positive way. What I discovered is this: Relying on our inner circles to rescue us, hug us, tell us everything is going to be okay can be a self-centered way to approach life and relationships. I've also found it's destructive to assume that everyone who runs away from us is heartless.
Thankfully, I grew past a need to rely on family and friends to help support me through my divorce. I began to appreciate and understand the differences among us when it comes to handling divorce and hardship. I began to see why some people might not be there for me.
I moved out of seeking comfort from friends and into seeking movement toward inner peace. I learned to no longer resent those who treated me like a deadly disease. I stopped feeling unworthy. I began to gain understanding…
Turns out, many people experience some level of FEAR where a major transition is concerned (whether it be their own or someone else's). When we don't consider fear as a possible reason for why someone might hide or run away from us in times of emotional pain we may stay stuck in a woe-is-me mode of thinking.
Have you noticed that we usually only view someone walking away from us from our point of view…as a definite example of hateful rejection in our mind? I mean, how DARE they turn their back on us when we are faced with so much uncertainty? Some friends they are! Guess we know who our true friends are! Or is that fair to conclude? Could it be these friends that flee are in some level of pain, discomfort, or fear themselves? Hmmm…Maybe they aren't unfeeling and heartless people after all! Maybe, just maybe, life isn't all about what we are going through!
When it comes to those who can’t or won’t support us we can choose to see it as an opportunity to understand vs. an excuse to feel sorry for ourselves. When these people ghost us we can learn to explore the situation outside of our limited point of view—we can choose to develop a higher understanding of where that friend (or family member) may be coming from.
Accept Soothing then Get to Moving
Those friends that do stand by us aren’t necessarily prepared to help us get or stay healthy over the long-term. They may hug us, agree that we have every right to cry, hand us a bottle of wine, and tell us this too, shall pass. If they’re especially committed to you they may leave the phone line open in case of a 3 a.m. sob-session.
I’m not downplaying this kind of support. I’m pointing out the common practice of family and friends to soothe vs. move us through tough times. A friend or family member may not be equipped to move you in ways that are transformational through hardship. When we can accept this we can appreciate and seek out new ways to feel supported outside of friends/family network.
I came out of self-centered neediness-woe-is-me thinking and into self-empowering focus toward my future and a better understanding of those I felt had abandoned me in my time of need.
Here are 3 Things to Do When Friends and Family Don't Come Through
Redefine Your Expectations
Ask yourself these questions:
Do I expect family and friends to come through no matter what?
Is it possible not everyone in my circle is equipped or comfortable handling what I’m going through?
If so, can I begin to shift my expectations of them to myself?
What do I expect of myself that will work to take me out of resentment and into the personal
restoration of my body, mind spirit?
How might this improve the relationships that still exist in my life?
A shift to recognize that each person is on their own journey can work to move you out of the expectation of others and into the compassionate understanding of differences.
Rest on The Fact that Each Person's Handling of Pain is Unique
Adversity, grief, life-altering change, a major transition is all experienced at a very personal level.
If you can begin to understand that a friend or family member isn’t always equipped to emotionally serve you in the way you wish, you’ll immediately experience a positive shift inside.
It helps to remember that not everyone cries at funerals and this doesn’t mean they’re not grieving with you--even if you're convinced they're not sensitive to your pain. At the same time, some people's fear may make them view divorce as a disease they may catch. For others, marriage may be seen as a solely religious commitment that if broken makes you a hell-bound sinner—and to some with this belief, you now become a person they will, for religious reasons, move away from.
Getting to know and acknowledge differences that exist when it comes to beliefs and emotional processing can relieve you of frustration when others choose to flee in your time of need.
Release the Idea that Others Owe You Something
It is possible you’re stuck in the idea that a blood relation owes you a level of support no matter what. Even if this is a collective family belief it doesn’t guarantee all family members are emotionally prepared to support you when your time of struggle arrives.
This idea that family owes you time, a shoulder to cry on or sympathy over the phone can lead to stress when they don’t come through. Worse, the devil of disappointment can work to burn you and spark long-term resentment. You may move into a very destructive need to control others—after all, you believe they owe you. This energy threatens to tie you in knots and keep you from healing or moving forward.
To raise your energy step outside the idea that anyone (including a parent) owes you anything. If you can't do this on your own: Here’s where you may need to proceed to seek out an objective professional counselor to work through your emotions and/or paralyzing attachments to expectation.
A professional coach (like myself) who is highly trained will be able to help you develop clarity, movement, and measurable transformation in situations that feel impossibly overwhelming or paralyzing. Whatever help you seek out, be sure to celebrate the fact that you’re moving out of disempowering energy. Be glad to move into self-empowering progress through objective measures. A professional counselor and/or a coach can help get you out of frustration and into future focus.
From now on, when bad things happen, you can feel more confident that some form of fear could be at play when friends and family flee in your time of emotional need. This person may simply feel too overwhelmed to be there for you.
Expecting family to be there no matter what can prove to be a very disappointing and stressful experience. It may be better to expect more of yourself through tough times.
Even if fear isn’t a factor in people scattering away from us, we must remember that we all move through life with individual personal beliefs, pasts, and perceptions. Knowing we all process these things differently can work to not only soothe your loneliness but move you in a direction of higher understanding of others, healthy support for yourself and transformation through tough times.
Amy helps health-conscious men and women who are stressed by unexpected major uncertainty learn how to raise inner peace and clarity so they can run forward without raising their blood pressure and at the same time create the life of their dreams.


MP Ian Liddell-Grainger is supporting the latest phase of a campaign to get primary school children reading more.
It’s run by charity The Reading Agency, whose Summer Reading Challenge launches across England and Wales on July 14.
The Challenge is a unique partnership between agency and public libraries and last year got over three quarters of a million children borrowing, reading and talking about their favourite books.
This year's theme is Mischief Makers, celebrating the 80th anniversary of the much-loved comic, The Beano. As children read at least six library books over the summer they will collect stickers which will help them crack the clues and help Dennis, Gnasher and friends find the buried treasure.
Mr Liddell-Grainger, Conservative MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset, said he was hugely impressed with the aims of the campaign, which included preventing children’s reading levels dipping during the long summer holidays.
He said research had shown that reading for pleasure was a more powerful factor in life achievement than socio-economic background and that children who used libraries were twice as likely to be above-average readers.
“I hope parents, grandparents and carers in Bridgwater and West Somerset will take their children to the library over the summer to sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge,” he said.
“It’s free, inclusive and, most importantly, makes reading fun. Last year 7,708 children in Somerset took part. I hope we can increase that number this year.”


“I love your house.”
As I said these words, the lady in front of me at the scrubbed kitchen table put her head in her hands as tears rolled down her cheeks.
At first, I had no idea what was wrong. I touched her hand gently and said, are you okay? She looked at me through tear-filled eyes and said, “you love my home”.
“Yes”, I said.
“That means everything”, she said.
This lady has been trying to sell her beautiful rural farmhouse for years with no success. If we were asked to sell a house, we would be the fourth agent to try to do so.
“I don’t think any of them liked my house,’ this lady said to me. “I just didn’t get that impression”.
“But” I said, “how can they sell something they don’t love?”
I certainly can’t.
This need for transparency and honesty that I have when talking to people in their own homes can be a double edged sword; in fact, Phil and I often joke that he can tell straight away if I don’t like a house we visit because I am usually putting my coat on and out the door before we finish our cup of tea! I’m not very good at hiding my feelings.
But to me, I have to love a house to sell it. And, I have to love the people whose house we’re selling. To me it’s a perfect triangle, of us – their biggest advocates and ambassadors – their home and themselves. Only when that triangle is at its very, very best can you place the ideal buyer in the centre.
All of the houses we take on are unique and often very quirky. Some of our houses might have beams you have to step over, bedrooms that lead on to other bedrooms, unusual features like lime kilns in the garden, saunas in the basement, or major national footpaths bisecting their property. We love each and every one of them. Not in spite of their quirks, but because of them, because their quirks are what makes them the homes they are and the lifestyles they offer.
Not everybody will love all the homes we offer, of course. But it only takes one buyer to love that home just as much as we do and just as much as its owner originally did, for it to prove a perfect match. Very often we find that the perfect buyer is actually very similar to the seller when they moved in. So if the seller has lived in their home for 30 years, we’re really looking for them 30 years ago to buy it again. After all, if they’ve had a good chapter in their house, maybe it’s time for them to continue to their next chapter somewhere else and for a buyer to have their next chapter in this home.
Selling a home for us is about handing over the reins of responsibility and residency to somebody new – to the next generation of homeowner. It’s never about the house. It’s never about the bricks and mortar. It’s always about the life that has been lived in that house; the memories, the tears, the joys, the ups and downs, the laughter, the Christmases, the birthdays, the puppies, the homework battles, and the general life detritus that every home has.
When a buyer walks into a home and can sense this kaleidoscope, this rich patchwork quilt of the life that has been lived there, and feels a connection with that house, feels that they too could create their own patchwork quilt of memories in that house, then we know we have a match: the perfect buyer. The buyer that deserves this home. The person who really is going to make that house their own and who loves the house for all the reasons we the current owners love it.
Then, its quirks become its benefits. Those idiosyncrasies become reasons to fall in love with the house, and the house draws them in.
No matter how logical and analytical somebody is when they’re looking at a house, they always always buy for emotional reasons. They buy because it feels right – not because the numbers add up. They want it because they can see themselves in the kitchen, cooking for friends and family. They buy because they want that view from their bedroom when they open their curtains in the morning. They want to buy because that house has their name on it and they strongly believe it. And they cannot imagine themselves living anywhere else.
That’s what our unique homes do for people. They give them a sense of identity, a purpose, a lifestyle that means something. A lifestyle that maybe they’ve dreamt of for many, many years, maybe decades. A lifestyle they deserve, that they’ve worked for. A promise that they made themselves, this is the fulfilment of that promise. That’s why it means so much. That’s why our job is so important to us. That’s why when we put a buyer, a seller and a home together, we know what we are actually creating is something truly magical.
And that’s why we do what we do.


Often saddled with the burden of maintaining multiple sites for print services, government print offices as well as business and industrial concerns are eager to examine cost-savings technologies as a means to consolidate print and mail operations.
With the prospect of rising costs, aging in-house technology, and not being able to meet the level of service customers have come to expect, the question whether print is a core function or something that can be outsourced for less cost is a primary concern.
While many are comfortable with vendor managed print and mail services, others prefer to consolidate under an in-house structure.
In any case, it requires a level of expertise and print data knowledge and an understanding of the many roadblocks to achieving your print and mail consolidation goals.
Consolidating multiple organizations under one umbrella is not a simple task. However, successful consolidation projects seek to improve operational efficiencies, optimize service delivery as well as lower costs. Ultimately, the decisions to consolidate print and mail service concern a variety of factors:
To consider the financial benefits of consolidating facilities and services, a full analysis of current costs and infrastructure must be performed.
Projected post-consolidation savings based on facility, equipment, and staffing is not the only factor that requires consideration in order to estimate overall expenditures. Forward looking organizations not only consider the expenses, but also consider key driving factors such as:
And when considering whether consolidation for Print and Mail makes financial sense to achieve the desired cost-savings, there are several key areas for discussion:


We used to have such crazy dreams,
The kind of dreams that brought us together, made us not mere mortals, but a movement.
We used to dream we’d get to the moon.
And we were crazy enough, fanatical enough, relentless enough, to get there.
We dreamed we’d split the atom.
Make smallpox and polio whispers from forgotten history books.
Make technology infinite, individual.
Connect the world.
All the unbelievable and the impossible,
all the can’t do and the never will, we overwhelmed them, we overpowered them, we conquered them.
They said no and we, well,
We said yes.
We stood up.
We stood up and changed the world.
Stand up when everybody else sits down
Stand up when it’s easier to turn away
Stand up for everyone who can’t rise anymore
When the answer seems impossible, stand up
When the dream is right within our reach, stand up
When the powerful refuse your call, stand up
The moment is now and the time has come to stand up.
One out of every two men
One out of every three women
will face these diseases we call cancer.
Our sisters, our brothers, our fathers, our mothers,
our husbands, our wives, our children.
Our very best friends and those we’ve yet to meet.
One person every minute, one person in a moment gets lost, gets stolen, gets taken away.
This is where the end of cancer begins.
When together we become a force unmistakable.
A movement undeniable.
A light that cannot dim.
When we take our wild impossible dreams
And make them possible
Make them true
When together we rise as one
When we stand up
When we Stand Up To Cancer.


I have a very good dream since I was a child， to be a painter.
I want to use my brush to describe the motherland's great rivers， want to draw all good to me， a person's thoughts will be from the picture， and I， is the man who want to be with brush about life.
Wanted to let everyone see my picture， because I hope my picture can let all people like my painting a happy. Had a dream never grow old， and I will for my dream has been trying to， I hope my efforts can help more people.
I also hope I can go to some poor places in those children drawing， painting can give people bring happiness， through draw to express their emotions， their idea is very good.
There are some very beautiful places in China， I also want to use my hand brush paint the motherland great rivers， through every corner.
People should strive for my ideal， so I want to use the hands of the brush to paint the world.
Dream is strength. The strength can bring us wherever we want to get to and it can bring us a lot of wonders on our way to the place in our dreams.
Dream is beauty. Maybe you can see the things full of magic and maybe you will be moved by your own dream. Have you dreamed of being a princess? Have you dreamed of being a successful person? Oh, you can understand clearly that all the things in your dreams is unrealistic. The world is so real that all the dreams seem weak. But should we have our life without dreams? Of course not.
The truth never fails to tell you: no dream, no hope. If nobody had dreamed of flying like a bird, we should never have known that a machine called plane could bring us to the places in the air. And we would never have got the chance of development any more. Some people have said that the world would be in darkness if there hadn’t been Edison. He ever had a dream of keeping the sun above our head day and night and he really lightens our life. So what will happen if everyone has a dream and get down to making it come true? There is nothing impossible if you do.
Here, I also have my dreams. I hope that I can live a genteel life to enjoy a pure-nice happiness. I have a dream that all the people could pursue their dream freely and get equal chances to everything . I have a dream that evil will lose their life and love will fill up the blanket. I have a dream that one day I can stand with all of you to see the dream turn to reality together.


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Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Stop the Traffik was my first glance at human trafficking. It lit a spark within me, igniting a passion to use my voice for those who have no voice.
The more I research and delve into the depths of the sadness that is human trafficking, the more I feel a sense of loss alongside a ray of hope.
It is more disgusting and disturbing than you can imagine, and bigger than your mind could fathom.
Reading, thinking and meditating on the injustice of our world, of human trafficking, has made me cry a thousand tears. I have screamed out to God and wondered at the hate within the human heart that can allow and continue to feed this sadness.
I have pondered for hours, wondering what I could do to make a change. If just me, all on my own, could make a difference. Then my mum pointed me to this quote by Mother Teresa:
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop”
And reading this helped me to realise that I can make a difference. Joined together with all the other drops that are campaigning, researching and rescuing, one drop joined with other drops can create quite a storm.
I wanted to write this to encourage others to make a difference too, and that no matter how small you think your efforts are, they are larger than you think.


A lack of early dementia diagnosis underscores the need for preventive measures; Hong Kong researchers have found TCM treatments that slow the brain’s ageing
The successful use of TCM ingredient artemisinin to treat malaria shows the promise of marrying modern science and technology with traditional Chinese medicine
An ancient text which chronicles the use of Chinese medicine, “The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine”, includes references to forgetfulness, a condition which describes memory impairment and has symptoms similar to our modern-day diagnosis of dementia.
This text is said to have been written by Chinese emperor Huangdi around 2600BC and remains influential as a reference for practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
The ideas in the book are based on Taoist philosophy. Health and illness are the result of an imbalance between the forces of yin and yang and of the influence of the five elements’ – wood, fire, earth, metal and water – on the body’s organs.
There was an understanding then of a relationship between organs such as the heart and pulse, for example, even if those relationships are understood differently in medicine today. Despite its age, the work remains significant, not just as a reference for those practising TCM but because many of its original tenets hold true.
Dr Fanny Ip, a neurobiologist and senior research and development manager at the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), is familiar with the text. Her work uses modern approaches to investigate the potential benefits of TCM in the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.
Ip says TCM “adopts a holistic approach to understanding bodily functions and disease, focusing on both prevention and treatment” – based on observing symptoms to reach a diagnosis.
So given our necessary obsession with dementia – someone in the world succumbs to the condition every three seconds – and the fact there’s no cure, we need to be thinking of ways to prevent it.
“Currently, the major obstacle in tackling dementia lies in the lack of early diagnosis,” Ip says. “Most people seek medical attention only when they experience obvious memory problems. However, biochemical changes in the body can occur up to 20 years before symptoms manifest.
“Taking the examples of blood glucose control in diabetes prevention as reference, or monitoring of cholesterol level in cardiovascular disease, we would like to raise awareness for the public that we can also protect and maintain brain health through preventive measures and management.”
"Brain health is determined not just by neural health, but also by the health of immune and vascular systems"
Dr Fanny Ip on findings of her team's research at HKUST
So what role might TCM play in protection against the degeneration of neurons and the breakdown in the brain’s messaging system that is seen in patients with dementia in all its forms – Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease-related dementia?
Ip explains that when neuronal degeneration reaches a certain stage, “where communication between neurons at synapses, the tiny connections between neurons for message transmission” deteriorates, we experience a decline in brain health and activity.
She likens this poor messaging to a faulty connection between a power socket and electrical appliances.
Her team’s research at HKUST, says Ip, “demonstrates that brain health is determined not just by neural health, but also by the health of immune and vascular systems”.
Because of TCM’s long history of clinical usage, it provides a natural screening system for ingredient combinations that show real efficacy, she says. TCM therapies target multiple systems to rebalance the body and restore brain health.
The holistic nature of TCM is key – the development of dementia has been identified as being the result of a physiological and/or psychological factors that act alone or together, including poor lifestyle choices, chronic illnesses, anxiety and depression.
In TCM, dementia is identified as being the result of many physical ailments – spleen-kidney weakness, blood stasis and phlegm stagnation.
It also suggests that dementia shows up not only in cognitive but also non-cognitive symptoms, including psychiatric disorders and sleep disturbance. This fact is borne out in modern medicine: dementia is not simply a disease about “forgetting”.
Chinese chemist Tu Youyou won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, the first science Nobel Prize awarded to a China-based scientist.
Tu’s 1972 discovery – of artemisinin, now a key component of the drugs which revolutionised malaria treatment – was rooted in ancient Chinese herbal medicine. The plant compound found in wormwood had been used in China in the treatment of malaria for 1,000 years.
That reminded everybody of the significance of TCM and its place in modern treatments, and is why scientists like Ip are always on the lookout for therapeutic traditional ingredients which may form part of future drug treatments.
So has Ip’s team uncovered TCM ingredients that show hope in dementia prevention? Some common TCM ingredient formulations have been shown to improve memory problems, says Ip. And her team is making them widely available.
In 2018, based on more than two decades of research in Chinese herbal medicines, it established a start-up, Infitech, that develops brain health products backed by science.
Three products under the Cogniherbs label have been shown to strengthen and support synaptic responses which aid signalling in the brain, which could promote learning and memory.
“We examined how these TCMs work in the system, and showed that some of them can directly enhance the communication between brain cells (neurons), the process underlying memory formation,” Ip says.
“We also showed that administration of the TCMs can benefit memory performance in aged mice or diseased mouse models, providing experimental evidence on how we can promote neuronal communication and retard neurodegeneration.”
Back to that other ancient illness, malaria. Artemisinins are among the most potent antimalarial agents dispensed today. One study tracked treatment with it for nine months and during that time, there were 80 per cent fewer malaria-related hospital visits.
Traditional Chinese medicine is old, and in age accumulates wisdom. Theories on treating dementia have also accumulated over the history of that tradition. While more research is needed, the marriage of traditional medicine with modern science and technology means that TCM will continue to play a key role in the fight against dementia.
Imagine a world with 80 per cent fewer dementia sufferers.


05 Nov The Science Of Productivity
Manage how you think, rather than what you think. Time to dig into the science of productivity.
Charles Duhigg Is Back
For more than a decade CUTESolutions has been helping individuals and organizations develop new habits. Needless to say we turned into raging fans of Charles Duhigg the day he published the New York Times bestselling phenomenon The Power Of Habit back in 2012. (If you have not read this book, I would say: order it here right now, because it’s an absolute must read. You can thank us later!)
The Science Of Productivity
In The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg explains why we do what we do. Next it’s time to figure our how we can improve the things we do. In Smarter, Faster, Better Charles Duhigg explores the fascinating world of productivity. That was basically all we needed to know before clicking the “buy now” button. Learning how to get better at what we do in only 300 pages? Yes please!
In today’s world, managing how you think – rather than what you think – can transform your life.
As it turns out, the big secret of productivity is not about working more or harder. It’s about making certain choices in certain ways. In his book Smarter, Faster, Better Charles Duhigg covers eight domains in which we can consciously choose to do things differently in order to be more successful. He illustrates all eight concepts with narratives based on real-life crisis events (and how they were solved).
Listen to Charles Duhigg on Being “Smarter, Faster, Better.”
A must read for all managers
Without giving everything away, here are my top three insights worth remembering and developing a habit around.
Normally people who tell themselves stories about what they expect in certain situations are quicker to notice slight deviations from the normal pattern, thus quicker in noticing mistakes that are happening. Telling yourself the bigger picture keeps you from falling into the trap of “cognitive tunnelling”. Which, unfortunately, still doesn’t mean talking to yourself out loud is socially acceptable.
It’s no news that setting specific goals is smarter (see what I did there?) than setting big and vague goals. Often, however, SMART goals trigger our love for crossing off things from our to-do list, which makes us feel good in the short run (it’s almost better than chocolate – I said “almost”), but it adds little value to the long-term ambitions.
Your to-dos are choices, not chores
Look at your to-do list with a different mindset! The only thing you are responsible for, is the end-result. You have the freedom not to do some stuff on your list, or approach them in a different manner. Look at your to-dos as choices you made, instead of chores somebody imposed on you.
So be patient and read until the end if you want to know how to actually implement all these wonderful insights. Charles Duhigg reserves an entire chapter explaining how to put the theory into practice.
Oh, and there’s a spoiler for the plot to Disney’s “Frozen” in the book. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
The only question is, dear reader: are you ready to become Smarter, Better and Faster at what you you do? Please don’t consider this a rhetorical question. It’s a challenge!
Until next time!
Eva (CUTE consultant and facilitator)


Sabiha finds watching a small business grow and being able to make a real impact really rewarding, and also loves the fact that her work enables her to make a positive contribution to her community.
When she’s not trying to keep her 11 (!) tropical fish alive, Sabiha enjoys reading, drawing and travelling – she is always happiest out in nature with family or friends.
Sabiha is immensely proud of leaving the corporate world and starting her own business, and a recent book she enjoyed was Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa, a story that reminded her of the importance of paying attention to the people around her, listening without assumptions and that you can start all over again at any moment in your life!
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not in between
October 2 - October 31, 2021
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I once stood under a 1000-foot vessel. It was a dangerous and exhilarating place, and beneath the totality of steel and bulk I saw smallness in a manner I’d never known. I was nothing, and I was nowhere. I became driven by an aspiration to enter a union of the unseen, cursing authority, while maintaining a fidelity to the pack. I sought a paradoxical freedom marked by toil and offset by unrepented play. Yet, my desire was just a daydream, a longing to be fierce and fearless. I was out of place. I could walk to the edge, but I would not jump.
The middle is rarely celebrated. At times it is even shunned, rejected as an undecided position, a destination yet reached, or a situation amid tension. Betweenness is ultimately defined by the conditions that mark, limit, confine or restrict. Longing to escape from in between indicates restlessness, a desire to be elsewhere, to be over there rather than here. Without ends there are no in-betweens, only presences.
My creative endeavor is a manifestation of practice, a repeated return to actions of searching, making, and reflecting. The exhibited works become moments of exchange, temporal incarnations and placeholders, emphasizing a provisional language of materials and processes in flux. Courting failure and seeking conditional outcomes within normative constructs, the makeshift confronts accepted structures and logistics, leveraging instability as a condition for change.


Still Messin’ With Walkies….Why Not?
Before I tell this story, I think that though it probably goes without saying, it would be prudent of me to note that not everybody with a disability has a sense of humor about it. So if you are a walkie and you know someone disabled, my advice would be just to really know your friend, don’t go thinking that anything goes. I’ve already told you about some of the things I personally don’t like, on this blog.
At work I sit next to a guy who I have only known for about a month but we’ve gotten to know each other well, and he is already well aware that I don’t really have boundaries when it comes to jokes about my disability. Or so he thought!
He’d made some jokes throughout the night about it tonight, and I joked back. At the end of the night as we were leaving, he made another crack, and in a moment of inspiration, I turned to him and I said “that’s not funny.”
He said “It isn’t?”, still smiling at his cleverness, and assuming I was joking.
I said “No. I mean I have a sense of humor, but come on, grow up.”
His face went dark, and he said “Seriously?” I said “Yes, seriously.”
“I’m sorry, bad joke,” he said, trying desperately to back-track. ” Did I cross the line?”
Now, I don’t consider myself a cruel person. As such, I could only let this go on for so long. I cracked. And so did he.
“I can’t believe I fell for that!” he groaned. I assured him that I didn’t think he really believed me anyway, because I’d already made it so clear that nothing was sacred when it came to the disability. And the way he’d said “Seriously”, he looked like he thought he’d just been zapped into another dimension.
Anyway, I love it when my night at work ends on a high note like that.


Keeping clients for a lifetime isn’t just about the money. It’s also about giving clients what they need and want, so they feel happy with the relationship and themselves. Likewise, it’s about creating career satisfaction, stability and joy for you, which translates into success for a lifetime.
From there, the long-term success of any massage, spa or wellness business depends on building strong relationships with and recurrent sales from existing clients who come in regularly and also refer other ideal clients to the business. If you struggle to retain and re-book clients or find yourself wasting time, money and energy focusing on finding new clients, then you must read this book.
Creating Lifetime Clients will help you discover exactly who your perfect customers are as well as surprisingly simple and effective techniques for creating repeat visits and referrals from ideal, lifetime clients. You’ll also gain insights into skillfully letting go of patrons that are no longer a good fit for you or your business.
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Shana Moulton: Larynges (2015)
Moulton creates worlds at the threshold of absurdity and truth, catharsis and cliché, the material and the spiritual. This is reflected in her editions for 1646, borrowing the look and feel of wellness commercialism but translated into a collection of objects as hieroglyphs of healing, inviting potent empathy.
Each edition of Larynges has its own arrangement of fabric and nodes on it. Each one of Shana Moulton’s editions is handmade and unique.
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Don’t miss this special evening at the Scottish Rite as Performance Santa Fe presents:
A Celebration of Harold Pinter, starring Julian Sands.
Following the death of Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor Harold Pinter in 2008, British actor Julian Sands created an intimate tribute to his departed friend. Rather than using Pinter’s best-known works, Sands used his friend’s lesser-known poetry and prose.
Sands appeared in the one-man show’s premiere at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, under the direction of the inimitable John Malkovich. Not surprisingly, the play developed theatrical legs, opening in New York in 2012. It continues to draw fascinated audiences around the world.
Tickets are available through Performance Santa Fe
Doors open: 6:45pm
This community event is sponsored in part by the Santa Fe Scottish Rite


They believe there were once Three Goddesses who watched over their world. the same way other Gods looked over their own worlds.
But one planet's God was arrogant, and considered it's planet the most beautiful of worlds because it glowed a bright light, all other worlds revolved around it, basking in it's warmth. The God continued to fuel this glow. Growing it bigger and brighter until eventually the planet cracked.
The Planet split like an egg, giant tendrils of light emerged from the planets shell, painted red by the blood of the planets life.
the tendrils went from planet to planet.
Corrupting the planets to create more tendrils to corrupt more worlds.
It spread through existence. Consuming life and Gods alike.
These Tendrils were on their way to Sanctum and the Goddesses knew it. So they decided to hide Sanctum away. Sacrificing themselves in different ways.
One Goddess; the Jest gave her Skin to create drape To hide Sanctum from the Light. This is The Veil
The Second Goddess; The Fair gave her Quills to create her own Green Tendrils on Sanctum, to fight the Red Tendrils from the light and to keep the Bound hidden. These became the Vines
The Third Goddess; The Scholar gave the biggest sacrifice, she sacrificed her very immortality to be born among the Bound and to guide them into the Vinefields and keep them safe from the light. She became The Priestess who still guides the Bound today.
The Bound call themselves the Bound because they are Bound to this world, their Sanctum, the only life left in the Universe.


Last night was one of those nights. Last night was one of those nights that grabs at you and holds on... Last night was one of those memorable nights. Not for the events that transpired, I suppose, but instead for the small things that made this night grand. The mist on the mountains, the rain and how it fell, the way the evening light settled upon my little Ketchikan, Alaska.
I'll miss this all when I'm gone. Deep down I will always be a person of this rainforest and its habits.
I drove through the island and I was filled with admiration; never in my life would I declare anything as more beautiful than my bit of nature. When I got home, I stood in the rain for a while and I let the drops curl my hair.
I want to leave. I want to go to Finland, live in Kuopio, and become a Finn. I want to learn the language and think all the thoughts of Suomi that I can. I want to leave so badly because I know it is my time to go out into this world and do all that I have dreamt of doing- but I will always and irrevocably hold a love for Ketchikan in my heart.
Yesterday morning I received a card and a photo from my kindergarten teacher. The card was beautifully designed with a beautiful message inside, telling me that I was destined for great things and reminding me of my scholarly roots. The photo showed me at 5 years old with a grin half full of teeth and eyes brimming with excitement. I'm poised as if I almost want to run off- an adventurous spirit already developed. And most of all, I am wearing the colors of the Finnish flag. If only 5 year old Alexa Zelensky could see where 18 year old Alexa Zelensky was going.
To a brighter future than had ever been imagined.


Not being able to read or write well, when I was 37, I learnt from 3 friends. I then went to college and learnt to A level standard, during 1985-1994. I was like a sponge, wanting the education I was denied. In 1994 I was accepted at Imperial College London, to do a degree in Zoology, which included, physiology and anatomy of all life areas. It meant 4 hours traveling a day, but in 1997 I got my honours degree in Zoology and also became an Associate of the Royal College of Science. I was 50 and embarked on learning how to help the world naturally.
I slowly met other people who felt the same as me, I could talk freely with, I had found a soul family. My children and old friends, thought I was crazier than ever, and still do.
I started to learn different healing procedures/modalities. Teachers, were noting, that I could do things naturally too. When I came across Shamanic Healing, I knew this was my true forte, ‘I had come home’. My power animals and guides grew, and assist me each and every time I treat a client, along with Archangels and Angels. It humbles me that words and deeds come through me from higher beings, I never know what will happen when I heal, but it is successful.
I now realise that I have always walked the shamanic path.
From a very young age, in London’s, East-End, I was often found on the bomb-site playing with 'my stones', playing on Mother Earth and contemplating.
Often a native American man and a wolf, came to me they are still with me. When plants, trees got/get hurt, I feel their pain, I hear them call for help. I thought was natural, I found out, through others teasing, that most people do not feel/hear them nor people in spirit. No-one could understand me, not even me. I learnt to keep my feelings inside, this made me isolated internally.


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November 18, 2015
'Words Are More Powerful Than Munitions':
A Timely, Timeless Dispatch from Paris
By Albert Camus
In November 1946, the novelist Albert Camus published a series of eight essays in the Parisian newspaper Combat, to which he had begun contributing, anonymously, during the resistance to the Nazi occupation of France. The essays appeared under the headline “Neither Victims nor Executioners,” and represented Camus’s attempt to define a political morality responsive to what he called, in the first of those essays, “The Century of Fear.”
Recent terrorist violence in cities around the globe, culminating in last week’s suicide bombings in Beirut and murderous attacks in Paris, have prompted Urban Matters to present some excerpts from “Neither Victims nor Executioners.”
We are being torn apart by a logic of history which we have elaborated in every detail, a net which threatens to strangle us…. To save what can be saved so as to open up some kind of future--that is the prime mover, the passion and the sacrifice that is required. It demands only that we reflect and then decide, clearly, whether humanity's lot must be made still more miserable in order to achieve far-off and shadowy ends, whether we should accept a world bristling with arms where brother kills brother; or whether, on the contrary, we should avoid bloodshed and misery as much as possible so that we give a chance for survival to later generations better equipped than we are....
Yes, it is fear and silence and the spiritual isolation they cause that must be fought today. And it is sociability and the universal inter-communication of men that must be defended. Slavery, injustice, and lies destroy this intercourse and forbid this sociability; and so we must reject them. But these evils are today the very stuff of history, so that many consider them necessary evils. It is true that we cannot "escape history," since we are in it up to our necks....
All I ask is that, in the midst of a murderous world, we agree to reflect on murder and to make a choice. After that, we can distinguish those who accept the consequences of being murderers themselves or the accomplices of murderers, and those who refuse to do so with all their force and being. Since this terrible dividing line does actually exist, it will be a gain if it be clearly marked. Over the expanse of five continents throughout the coming years an endless struggle is going to be pursued between violence and friendly persuasion, a struggle in which, granted, the former has a thousand times the chances of success than that of the latter. But I have always held that, if he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward. And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions.
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There can be many reasons why people want to change. And whether people would like to change oneself or just the circumstances, it is often connected to some challenges, courage and leaving your comfort zone. During the last year I experienced one of those self-driven changes, when me and my partner decided to realise our dream by going abroad. Today I would love to share some of my impressions and reflect all the things that happened within the last 12 months.
For me it was always obvious, that I want to live abroad. Not forever and not focused on a certain place, but I just wanted to experience something new, open my mindset, get to learn another culture and new people. And I really wanted to experience all that not only while traveling a country for some weeks, but really to LIVE somewhere else. And so we did it. It was one day before New Years Eve two years ago, when my better half proposed to me. And there we were sitting while thinking about “Alright, what’s next?”. Marriage, house, children and career? Somehow we realised, that feels not right to us, at least not now. And so we discussed, what we wanted in life, apart from all the expectations around us and how our future should look like. Of course we would love to have some children (and a dog, to two?!) one day, a good job and all what comes with it, but I always had this wish to go abroad and it never get out of my mind. Luckily my partner felt the same way and so we decided to change the life we had. We both had great and well paid jobs, a lovely apartment in one of the best cities of this planet (I am talking from Berlin, babe), the best friends we could wish to have and a great and loving family as well. Nothing we could have missed, but still driven by an inner voice that wanted more.
After the decision was made, we were thinking about where to go. We were not focused on a certain country or even continent, but sun and ocean sounded great to us. So we started to send out some applications by using some contacts and suddenly we both got an interview for a company in New Zealand. Well, New Zealand was not my dream destination and we also got some rejections for other job applications, but we were happy about this chance and took it. I think if you want to change something, the first and most important thing to do is to really decide to do it. And not to wait for the perfect thing to happen, but you need start trying and taking the chances you get. I never regret our step even every change can be strongly connected to some challenges.
It was not easy to leave our friends, family and the city I call home. When my dad picked us up with the last things we needed to move out from our beloved apartment and we drove along the silent streets of Friedrichshain in the morning while the sun started to rise, I couldn’t hold my tears back. But now I am sitting here in Australia (How ended up here? Wait a sec and continue reading), enjoying the sun from another spot, and I have seen, smelled, heard and experienced so many things within the last year, that it was worth every tear and doubt. It wasn’t always easy and sometimes quite grey times, and NZ was not the place that made us happy. Even we met some lovely people and new friends, the life we had was not what we expected to fulfil our dream. But so what? Be ready for the unprepared. And so we changed our plans, quit our job (again), moved out (again), said goodbye to our friends (again) and booked a ticket to Australia. This time without any plans, without any fixed jobs and with nothing but a backpack (ok…. Three big luggages and a backpack). And this was the best decision we could have made and finally we are, where we wanted to be: free, down to earth, time for self-reflection, away from the stream of expectation. It’s all about us and the moment and we are open for all the new. I could have never imagine me living in a campervan, being happy by just spending a day outdoor, but that’s what changes are about I guess.
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The free and independent individual by Jon Rappoport July 26, 2017 In Ayn Rand’s 1943 novel, The Fountainhead, newspaper columnist, arch manipulator, and promoter of absolute collectivism, Ellsworth Toohey, tells his social-climbing weak-kneed follower, Peter Keating: “If you learn how to rule one single man’s soul, you can get the rest of mankind. It’s the […]
I have had the questions raised in this article myself for years. However, I am still unable to project realies myself. Why is this so? How could I do it?
Occult Man and his search for his true nature
by Jon Rappoport
July 28, 2017
The word “occult” is frequently associated with some secret society, and it is given a negative twist by pitting it against organized “clean” religion or “totally rational” science.
But the Latin root of the word comes from the verb, “to hide.” That’s all.
Occult Man means man who is hiding something. And it really means man who is hiding something from himself.
What would that be?
Occult man is hiding his true nature from himself.
In order to discover what that true nature is, he would already need to be free from the belief that he owes his time, energy, and life to another person or an idea. He would need to be free from the self-debasing concept of spiritual debt—regardless of how fashionable it might be to incur (or pretend to incur) such a…
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139. Dismantling the Nation: Contemporary Art in Chile, edited by Florencia San Martín, Carla Macchiavello Cornejo, and Paula Solimano
The first academic volume to theorize and historicize contemporary artistic practices and culture from Chile in the English language, Dismantling the Nation takes as its point of departure a radical criticism against the nation-state of Chile and its colonial, capitalist, heteronormative, and extractivist rule, proposing otherwise forms of inhabiting, creating, and relating in more fluid, contingent, ecocritical, feminist, and caring worlds. From the case of Chile, the book expands the scholarly discussion around decolonial methodologies, attending to artistic practices and discourses from distinct and distant locations—from Arica and the Atacama Desert to Wallmapu and Tierra del Fuego, and from the Central Valley, the Pacific coast, and the Andes to territories beyond the nation’s modern geographical borders. Analyzing how these practices refer to issues such as the environmental and cultural impact of extractivism, as well as memory, trauma, collectivity, and resistance towards neoliberal totality, the volume contributes to the fields of art history and visual culture, memory, ethnic, gender, and Indigenous studies, filmmaking, critical geography, and literature in Chile, Latin America, and other regions of the world, envisioning art history and visual culture from a transnational and transdisciplinary perspective.


His Heart was two sizes too small. and his mind was too small to call.
Nice to know that when the will of the people get in the way of the will of the rabid right, the rabid right can just change the rules of the game. Who needs a stinkin vote, when Mr Boehner can pick and choose which tax cuts are important for you. I do hope that someone on the freedom-loving, government-limiting right realizes that it’s their vote as well that was just taken from them. And I hope they see that when you’re in a boat on the open sea, with no life vests, just because you don’t like one of the other guys on that boat, shooting holes in it might drown him, but you’re gonna drown too


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Bruce replied that he was just in the frame of mind for something of the kind. He was far too restless to settle down to anything.
It is to the second theory that Plotinus evidently leans. However closely his life may have been conformed to the Pythagorean modela point with respect to which we have306 nothing better than the very prejudiced statements of Porphyry to rely onthere is no trace of Pythagorean asceticism in his writings. Hereafter we shall see how hostile he was to Gnostic pessimism. In the preceding essay, he had already specified admiration for physical beauty as a first and necessary step in the souls ascent to a contemplation of spiritual realities;451 and now it is under the guidance of Platos later speculations that he proceeds to account for her descent from that higher world to the restraints of matter and of sense.
Men and women in the prime of life sat on their chairs, gazing vacantly at nothing, lacking in the most literal sense of the word the strength to stand or to walk. When at about six o'clock in the evening the click-clack of rifle-fire was heardfor a Belgian patrol seemed to have come near the town,my hostess and her daughter pressed a couple of papers against their breast, full of fear, ready to fly, but unable to walk.
A long slip of paper was thrust into her hand. Her quick brain grasped the significance. Maitrand had struck, and struck hard. These men were in possession for nearly 100,000--vulgar bailiffs such as come and sell the goods of poor people who cannot pay their rent. Leona Lalage remembered now the conditions under which she had borrowed money from Maitrank. He had her in his power. It seemed a vile thing to do when she had put him off with the very jewels from about her neck. And she was powerless--she could not have these men turned into the street. Most of her guests would understand sooner or later. Tomorrow this would be public property. Once the tongue of rumour started the crash was bound to follow.
Charlton rose; the woman's coolness and nerve were inflammable to him.


For centuries, storytellers have employed tools to create and understand the Heroes in their narratives. They work tirelessly to define their Hero from the inside out: from their motivations, fears, and desires, to their mannerisms, appearance, and habits. One of the most popular and time-tested tools for character development? Character personas. And they’re one heck of a tool for HR and internal comms pros too.
Think about it: if the role of a brand is to awaken a deep sense of purpose from within the Hero (your employee)... don’t we need to understand them inside and out?
There are many models for character personas out there, including age-old Jungian archetypes and morphogenetic Christ consciousness grids, but our advertising agency has found that you really only need to answer two core questions to understand your Hero:
#1. What Is Your Hero’s Background?
Your typical employee audience member (Hero) will fall into one of these two categories that indicate their status in the world, and therefore their perspective:
- The Regular Jane/Joe Hero: This is a “normal” person caught up in extraordinary circumstances. This Hero is relatable, and watching him/her in action reminds us of ourselves (Think Woody from Toy Story).
- The Larger-Than-Life Hero: This Hero is extraordinary — sometimes seemingly superhuman — but comes with softer sides and vulnerabilities. This Hero is aspirational, and his/her behavior reminds us of who we want to be (Think Buzz Lightyear).
#2. What Do They Desire Most?
In every Heroic journey, the lead character wants something that either they don’t have yet, or they have but might be taken away from them. (This is the story’s conflict.) The Hero spends the majority of the story attempting to get, but just falling short of what he or she wants. Then, the Guide (brand) shows up, and inspires the Hero (employee) to fulfill their destiny:
- To Change: This Hero wants to change the world, their individual circumstances, or themselves.
- To Preserve: This Hero wants to protect the status quo or restore things to the way they were before.
The Four Personas of Hero: Underdog, Survivor, Disruptor, Protector
The intersection of a Hero’s background and their desire is where we uncover the best approach for a brand to communicate with the Hero.
Underdog: The Regular Jane/Joe Hero That Desires Change
The Underdog is “just like you and me,” but has a deep desire to shake things up.
- Examples in Popular Culture: Harry Potter (an unlikely Hero), Good Will Hunting (a rags-to-riches story) and Lord of the Rings (a David-and-Goliath tale)
- Underdog Brands: Jet Blue, Ally Bank, Planet Fitness
Survivor: The Regular Jane/Joe Hero That Desires Preservation
The Survivor will do whatever it takes to stay alive. They are determined, cunning, and powerhouses of creative willpower.
- Examples in Popular Culture: Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 or Bobby Shatford in The Perfect Storm (human vs. nature), Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia (human vs. society)
- Survivor Brands: Volvo, OtterBox, Dashlane
Disruptor: The Larger-Than-Life Hero That Desires Change
A Disruptor is a rebel who will do whatever it takes to change society, overcome odds and defeat tyranny.
- Examples in Popular Culture: Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (idealism), Tris Prior in Divergent (champion of a mission or message)
- Disruptor Brands: Tesla, StitchFix and Smile Direct Club. Apple, in the early 2000s.
Protector: The Larger-Than-Life Hero That Desires Preservation
Protectors are superheroes, though they may not always be supernaturally endowed. They have an explicit desire to rescue or protect the world and those they love in it.
- Examples in Popular Culture: Bruce Willis as Harry Stamper in Armageddon, James Bond (save-the-world epics), Erin Brockovich (revenge stories)
- Protector Brands: BMW, Nike and FedEx
Sometimes the hardest part of an internal comms assignment is clearly defining to whom we are speaking. While we could go about accumulating a large swath of employee data, opportunities can pass us by if we wait. So consider using these four archetypes as a foundation for your brand to understand and communicate with your employees. How can your brand (their Guide) help them fulfill their destiny?
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