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How Many Stars in the Sky?

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As the world keeps running sideways a hundred miles an hour, pausing only to take an occasional step backward, digital screens flood crowded global minds with more negative noise than positive. In America, a just announced survey reveals optimism and pessimism are somewhat evenly balanced, a shocking development to hundreds of millions who never dreamed […]

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Simone Biles & The Olympic Game$

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American gymnast Simone Biles stands four-feet-eight inches tall. By stepping aside during this year’s overhyped money grab Tokyo and the IOC call the Olympic “Games,” she towers like a giant. Make no mistake what this fortnight of international competition bloated with made-up events detached from the competition designed by ancient Greeks truly is: a commercialized […]

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Second Interview with Ed Molitor’s “The Athletics of Business”

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It’s always nice to be a guest on someone’s show, especially so when you are asked back a second time. Following my recent return to Chicago-based Ed Molitor’s interview program, here is the link: https://theathleticsofbusiness.com/podcasts/with-ted-simendinger2/ We covered many topics, including Managing the Worry Circle, pro selling, story construction and my writing process, plus the great […]

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

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The poppies just keep on growing. While the new president tries to instill a return to civility and order, the old one hopes the legal sledgehammer currently being lifted in New York somehow fails to crack open the coconut of various misgivings that will soon create an Excedrin headache all the Tylenol Extra Strength in […]

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Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace

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Whether inadvertent or stoked by emotion, conflict resolution is part of working with others. Like forest fires, prevention is easier to manage than putting out the flames. I am a big proponent of understanding what causes these issues in the first place. The genesis of heated disagreement comes from several combustable behavioral truths. Core beliefs […]

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Goodbye & Good Riddance

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2020 & Trump Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Rump It has been difficult to keep silent these last few months as Rome burned, Nero fiddled, and Nero’s son-in-law was setting up a sketchy LLC to pack war chest cash from an “investigate election fraud” plea into the current president’s personal golden parachute. […]

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