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One Small Step toward Changing the World

Thirty-three years ago on March 5 my nephew Bryan Caforio was born. Today he is seeking his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 25th Congressional District in California. Today, I am seeking your support to help elect Bryan through My Project 70, the project I designed to celebrate my milestone birthday…

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Money Can Buy Happiness

“Money can buy happiness” according to Michael Norton, an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In Norton’s TED Talk from Cambridge, MA in 2011, he demonstrated that when people spent money on themselves, nothing happened. But, when people spent money on other people, they got happier. Would you like to…

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Announcing My Project 70

My Project 70 Change Red to Blue – Small Steps Help elect Bryan Caforio, my nephew, to represent the 25th Congressional District in California! Here is a link to the article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on December 9 that talks about his candidacy: …

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What Is Your Bottom Line?

Last Saturday I discovered this poem by Daniel Skach-Mills at the Lan Su Chinese Garden in Portland. Eleven "Don't call it multi-tasking, this ritual I do: lifting, pouring, setting the pot down again and raising the bowl to my lips. Stepping into the tearoom, …

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If We Downsize and Declutter Our Lives Can We Get More Out of Life?

That is the title of an article published in Australia on July 5, 2015. I discovered a summary of this article in the most recent issue of The Chronical, the newsletter of the Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD - www.challengingdisorganization.org). I was so intrigued by the summary that I followed the link to find the entire…

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Do You Need a Brain Hack?

If you find yourself stuck and not able to get started on a task or project, you might benefit from a brain hack. What's a brain hack? That's the question I asked myself as the presenter of a recent teleclass I attended kept talking about brain hacks. The title of the teleclass through the Institute for…

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