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So it is not very often that I would write about a quote from a sitcom as being a great life lesson, but this particular quote was so good that I haven’t been able to get it off my mind, so I figured I had better write about it today. It was a quote from [...]
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Yesterday I wrote my Forbes article on moving past your mistakes in life and I used a quote from the movie the Lion King. There is another quote from that movie that I can’t help but share today because I think it is so powerful. There is a part of the movie where we hear [...]
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Isn`t it funny how in life we have that room in the house we keep everyone out of in order to save it for that “special occasion”, or the china plates that we only eat from on a “special occasion”, or the towels in the bathroom that can only be used on a “special occasion”. [...]
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A man, whom I have tremendous respect for, shared a poem he wrote himself over the course of many years of his life, starting when he was 68 years old and finishing it at the age of 88. It tells a fantastic message of why we should embrace the process of growing older, as growing [...]
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We all go through difficult times. Whether it’s not getting a desired job, dealing with a difficult coworker, struggling to get along with a boss, hurting financially, coping with health problems, or nursing a damaged relationship, we all have to face adversity and trials in our lives. Sometimes the struggles we go through are the [...]
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I don’t know who came up with these 7 Lovely Logics, but whoever did is an absolute genius! I happened upon these today and I have to say that I love it when you come across something like this and it totally hits you in the very moment you need it to and brings your [...]
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“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make [...]
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There is little that I enjoy more than spending quality time with a group of great friends. Today I went to the BYU Founders Board Meeting (Brigham Young University board I serve on). It was a great meeting and I truly joy serving with such amazing board members. All are highly successful people who place integrity and [...]
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Why is it that when we are young we just wish we could be a grown-up – then we become grown-ups and we can’t help but wish we could be a kid again. I can’t recall where I got this list about being a kid again, but it brings back the memories of just how [...]
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As many of you know, my husband and I are building a new home. Our architect is a man named Lyle Beecher of the firm Beecher Walker. Lyle is a phenomenal architect and he and I had worked together in the past when he designed the office space for my former company, so I knew [...]
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Have you ever been flipping through a magazine and come to the picture perfect person staring back at you and thought to yourself, “I wish I looked like her/him”. Or have you watched a famous people on the television being interviewed about their fame and fortune and thought to yourself “I wish I had their [...]
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I can hardly believe that it was exactly one year ago, last Saturday, that we signed the closing documents to sell MediConnect (MCG). Since that day it has been a sheer whirlwind of activity so when I realized that it was the one year anniversary over the weekend all I could think of is how it [...]
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Amidst having a pity party for myself for my ‘oh, so stressful’ week, I came across an article that was absolutely perfect for kicking me in the behind and knocking some humor back into my pity-party self: How To Have a Mental Breakdown in 11 Easy Steps -By Jason Kotecki Have you ever wondered to [...]
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Gratitude is an amazing thing. Gratitude can turn any negative into a positive. The fastest way to FEEL happy is to BE thankful. Taking a moment to consider all the blessings that are in your life can help tremendously to put everything into proper perspective; and it is proper perspective that will help you through [...]
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Last night my daughter came in to tell me about her day. She was clearly in a really good mood despite the fact she wasn’t feeling well still. As she started to tell me about her day she was really excited to share her experience with a substitute teacher that taught one of her classes. [...]
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Tonight I went with a group of young women who decided to spread a little Valentines love by heart-attacking some of the neighbors front doors. For those of you who don’t know what a heart-attack is, it is when you take a bunch of cute construction paper cut out hearts and stick them all over [...]
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One of the greatest lessons I learned during my time as a CEO was that great employees are not replaceable. It isn’t the technology or the product that make a company great, it’s the people. And companies who see their good employees as “replaceable” are wrong. Good employees are not replaceable. Let me clarify what [...]
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I came across this reminder of just how blessed each of us are and I was grateful to have this reminder. Life is amazing and beautiful and I feel incredibly blessed for all the good in my life. I have to give a special shout out to my amazing daughter Ashley today as it is [...]
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“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one’s self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something [...]
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After working incredibly hard for the last few months to get REES Capital launched, our building construction and renovation completed, and setting up our new offices with furniture and decorations and all the hoopla in order to be ready for our big Grand Opening tomorrow, I definitely needed to hear that quote you just read. [...]
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There is something amazingly powerful when a person takes their God given talents and puts them to use in a big way. Every one of us came into this life having our own unique talents. Some are obvious talents such as music, or dance, or writing, while others have less visual talents such as the [...]
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It is that time of year again. That miserable experience of trying to pull together your financial information so you can figure out how much you are going to owe in taxes for this year and hustling to determine what items you need to pay prior to the end of 2012 in order to take [...]
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My thoughts today are about petty people, mean people, and those who facilitate their bad behavior. All of us have dealt with them before, those people who are petty, mean, and selfish. They are those people who are focused only on themselves, their wants, their hurts, and their problems. The petty ones can be found [...]
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Today I became a member of the Board of Directors of the South Davis Community Hospital. They had asked me to join the board several weeks ago and today was my first board meeting with them. I had driven by the hospital in Bountiful, Utah many times when my parents lived in Bountiful for a [...]
