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Note from Gillian: Trick or Treating – Concoct a Playful Success Strategy

Trick-or-treating, traditionally strolling through one’s neighborhood in costume and ringing doorbells to demand treats, has been an annual event for centuries, tracing back to those mischievous ancient relatives of mine, the Celts. Living 2,000 years ago, they believed that the dead returned to earth on Halloween,

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Note from Gillian: Stretching the Limit

Just when I thought running 25 miles a week, swimming, and hiking meant I was in good shape. I participated recently in a yoga class with my daughter – a class filled with Zoomers (a few) to Boomers (the majority and obviously all in better shape than me).

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Note from Gillian: Battling Problems

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein

Today it feels that life and work are a consistent and at times overwhelming flow of problems.

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Note from Gillian: Great Expectations

Charles Dickens’ novel of the mid-19th century in rural England and London tells the story of an impoverished orphan, Pip, as he navigates social class, love, and identity, inheriting an anonymous fortune that provides the funds to move to London to pursue his ‘great expectations’ of wealth and social standing.

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Note from Gillian: Independence or Interdependence?

By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, almost 250 years ago, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists’ motivations for seeking independence.

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Note from Gillian: The Process of Exchange

Business, like life, requires exchange. The success of the business, again as reflected in life, is the definition and degree of that exchange. By definition, as well as its derivation, exchange means to change out, to give in trade for something regarded as equivalent,

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Note from Gillian: Weathering the Storm

Storms may bring raging seas, torrential rains and mud slides, tree tumbling winds, piercing lightning and blinding sleet. All life, including us humans, must develop solutions to weather storms, created by Mother Nature or our man-made disasters –

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Note from Gillian: Why We Climb Mountains

Entrepreneurs, game changers, the brave, and the innovative have much in common with those who climb mountains. You venture into unknown territories of bright ideas with the goal to reach the summit of success. You plan your route,

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Note from Gillian: It’s Spring Cleaning Time

Every species has a spring cleaning ritual to remove the deadwood, the accumulated clutter, outdated gear and yes, even stale habits and thoughts. For nature, there’s the March winds that shake the branches of the last season’s leaves to make it possible to welcome new life and vitality.

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Note from Gillian: All that Matters

With the recent catastrophic fires in Los Angeles throughout January, thousands were forced to flee their homes and businesses with little to no warning, many thinking it would be temporary and they would be able to return home after the fire was extinguished.

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