We’re now a week into the New Year. How are you doing on your big goals and resolutions? If you’re still on track, congratulations! If you’re not, well… you’re not alone. According to a 2007 study by professor and psychologist Richard Wiseman, 88 percent of people who make New Year resolutions fail to keep them. Does that […]
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Customer service is defined by moments. We all know that. Perhaps no one knows it better than Morton’s The Steakhouse, though. A couple of years ago, Morton’s created an amazing “moment” when a gentleman named Alex from Morton’s Hackensack (New Jersey) met Peter Shankman at the airport with “a 24 oz. Porterhouse steak, an order of
A couple of weeks ago, I asked this question: “Are you celebrating your success?” The point is that many of us are always chasing success without pausing to actually celebrate the success we’ve achieved so far. Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, has studied and written about this extensively. In one of the most
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Our son attended a gymnastics camp last week and learned the meaning of “Switch!” — as in, when one kid’s turn is up, it’s time to “switch!” so the next person gets a turn. I like that word, and I think we should all adopt it… Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living, writes that,
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