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Five Attitudes That Edify

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John Maxwell tells a great story about a woman, Thelma, who moved with her husband to a military training center in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

She lived in a one-room shack in the unbearable heat–125 degrees in the shade of cacti. She was lonely with no one to talk to. Thelma hated it. One day she wrote to her parents and told them she was giving up and coming home. She said she would rather be in jail. The 2-line letter her mother wrote back changed her life… Continue reading

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Word of the Week: Edify

Edify

There is a story that comes from ancient Greece about the King of Sparta boasting to a visiting monarch about the mighty walls of Sparta.

The guest looked around, but he saw no walls. So, he politely asked to see the walls that his host was so proud of.  Continue reading

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