December 12, 2007
I’m on vacation, in a nest-like condo overlooking a quiet and empty beach. The waves wash in, wash out. The breeze keeps the temperature just right. It would be easy to believe, in this place and this time, that all is right in the world.
Into this context, my wife forwards an email to me containing Al Gore’s acceptance speech for his Nobel Prize. It takes me several days to read it. I expect it to be long, a bit boring, and fairly predictable. Instead, I find it to be riveting, because of it’s call to our better selves, because of it’s clarity and eloquence in describing the choices facing us and the consequences of those choices, and because of it’s consistency with the principles of persuasion, conflict resolution and honest communication that I teach through my business, The Art of Change.
I’m going to post the speech in its entirety on my blog. I ask that you, my reader, consider what Al has to say on this subject. Because this isn’t about politics, it isn’t about personality, and it isn’t about the possibility or probability of climate change. It’s about the future that together we are choosing RIGHT NOW! Please take the time to read it. I think it well worth the time it takes.
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November 26, 2007
Thanksgiving holiday marks the official beginning of the winter holiday season. It is a time of family, of fun, of appreciation and gift giving, of mailed and emailed greetings and visits with friends old and new. It is also a time of flu and fever, stuffy noses, depression and weight gain, made all the worse […]
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