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Mark Twain's Wit and Wisdom for Personal Strength

Building Personal Strength

Sail away from the safe harbor. On OPEN-MINDEDNESS - “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” On INITIATIVE - “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

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Five Tips for Coping with Uncertainty — and Finding Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

Europeans wait for a resolution to financial woes from the south affecting the north, and in a safe, sane Nordic country, Norway, fear rises from a seemingly insane terrorist shooting that cost nearly a hundred lives. Safe harbors have uncertainty, too. Mobilize appreciation for key constituencies.