We all know that decisions we make have consequences, and that our actions certainly do.  Norman Cousins wrote: “Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”  I expect each of us in looking retrospectively can attest to this truth.

I’m thinking particularly about the school board of Brevard County today, because it is responsible for making some very difficult funding decisions right now in anticipation of a 30 million dollar deficit for next year.  That necessitates deep destructive cuts.  In particular,…..

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This from Authonomy where my second book is displayed for comments:

Time is a great healer and it is with time that the healing process helps us to overcome the drastic consequences that have befallen us. In the meantime it is wonderful to have a book like your book to help lessen the pain that the person who has lost their job is going through. Because it is painful to lose your job. It can be a mind numbing experience……

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We Americans love the idea of success.  From our earliest days, our best efforts are applauded: turning over, creeping, first steps, even first teeth.

Our A’s receive accolades in school; applause completes a performance; salary rewards competence at work.

Ben Carson wrote two books, one called Think Big, and a second called Gifted Hands.  As a medical doctor, he was uniquely poised to write them.  However, it is his attitude which is the real story here.  In grade school, he was a…..

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my second book is: Job Loss: What’s Next?  A Step by Step Action Plan

I hope this book will aid those who face unemployment, whether through retirement, reduction to part time, layoffs, business failures, or by choice. Not unlike other life crises, people endure stages of grief, need to reevaluate goals, and must take a hard look at their personality traits, upgrading skills, and making hard choices about their future endeavors.  This book includes a useful handbook and “notes…..

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I will not do this often, I promise, but I can’t say it better than this email from a friend, called How Great Is Our God:

How Great is our   God!!!

Our Creator and   Redeemer . . . and do we THINK about it ???

God’s accuracy may be observed in the hatching of eggs.. . . . .

For example: -the   eggs of the potato bug hatch in 7 days; -those of the canary…..