http://greatlivesblog.com From Author and Speaker, Dan McCormick Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:48:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are like me you have days where you woke up and wondered how you arrived at this place in your life?  Where did the time go?  How is it that things have turned as they have? Think back with me for a moment, way back.  Back when someone asked you your age ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2008/08/04/choose-well/ I was reading on Stephen Covey’s website a few days ago and I came across the following article that made me reflect on my book and what I have learned from one of my heroes Mahatma Gandhi. I hope that you will enjoy this as much as I did. Q: Who ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2008/04/04/stephen-covey%e2%80%a6-mahatma-gandhi/ Finally here, 2008 will eventually end just as quickly as it began. New Year's, always bringing optimism in abundance to the hearts of so many, can spark us to set out to lose weight, get fit, better our career, quit smoking or any number of other resolutions which, when followed to fruition, will lead ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2008/01/03/how-to-set-and-reach-goals/ Another 10 days or so and we can all rest easy as we walk to the mail box. The wheelbarrow of magazines catalogs ,specials and promotional sales materials for Christmas gifts (or Holiday shopping to be politically correct) is enormous as we all know and nearing the seasonal conclusion. I ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2007/12/18/the-art-of-promotion/ “I felt as though I was walking with destiny . . .” In May 10th, 1940, Winston Churchill, then age sixty-six, became Prime Minister of England. This was the time when the powerful German air force was making round-the-clock trips across the English Channel dumping planeload after planeload of bombs on ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2007/11/19/great-liveswinston-churchill/ “No good idea was ever allowed to get away.” Few things could be more fascinating than to study the life of a great thinker. Van Wyck Brooks wrote an interesting study of the gifted American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson that he titled, A Biography of an Inner Life. ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2007/11/19/great-lives-ralph-waldo-emerson/ William Danforth once wrote a important book entitled I DARE YOU! As a small boy before the time of drainage ditches, living in the countryside surrounded by swamplands. Those were the days of chills and fever and malaria. When he went to city school he was a sallow ... http://greatlivesblog.com/2007/11/10/i-dare-you/