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What MLB Pitcher Jon Lester and 4 Other Professional Athletes Teach Us About Overcoming Obstacles

Success

It wasn’t just any form of the disease, but a rare form of blood cancer known as anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. When you throw like a 25-year-old left-hander does, muscles are often sore—but the pain wouldn’t go away. Lester went to see doctors and heard words he never expected: He had cancer.

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Thursday Morning & 20 Years of Celebrating You & Your Profession!

Office Dynamics

A video montage played, with Joan explaining how the Conference for Administrative Excellence began 20 years ago. We heard about the first conference, which had 16 attendees from 6 companies, and also about the conference that took place during a Hurricane! The conference emphasis was on thriving during the economic slowdown.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

Success

in his 2002 best-selling book, Authentic Happiness. Extroverts tend to be happier,” says Diener, for this very reason; they’re more adept at forming those all-important relationships. Besides the temporary high that exercise can confer, its long-term effects on happiness are well documented.

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