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Taking Time to Reflect – A Happy, Healthy, and Peaceful New Year!
New Year – 5781 Rosh Hashanah begins the Jewish New Year. This year 5781 begins on the Friday at sundown. 10 days later the worldwide Jewish community will observe Kom Kippur, which is the Day of Atonement. These 10 days are considered the High Holidays or Days of Awe and a time to reflect on…
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The #1 Secret for Writing a Book!
Why write a book I find it fascinating that so many people are eager to know how an author writes a book. They are curious for many reason. Below are just a few: 1. They want to write a book. 2. They are thinking about writing a book. 3. They don’t know how to begin…
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2020 Presidential Candidates’ Brain Color Personalities Can Influence Your Vote!
Past Presidential Candidates’ Brain Color Personalities There are only 77 days until November 3rd—Election Day 2020. I have been determining the candidates’ Brain Colors since Presidential Election of 2000. That was the contested (hanging chads) election when Al Gore, a Green Brainer and Joe Lieberman, a Blue Brainer ran against George W. Bush, an Orange…
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Is your attitude: The Glass 1/2 Full, 1/2 Empty, or Something Else?
Full, Empty or Overflowing? People talk about their glass being 1/2 Full or 1/2 Empty. However, my childhood friend Helene describe her glass as filled to the top and with bubbles overflowing the rim of the glass. Helene says, “You must keep your own glass not only full, but overflowing so you have all of…
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Honor your mother by understanding her personality!
Sunday, May 10th is Mother’s Day and what would have been my beloved mothers’ 103rd birthday. On the left is a picture of my mother and I wearing our fashionable Mother-Daughter dresses, which my mother designed and sewed. We are standing in our garden in 1948. My mother was 31 years old and I was…
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Do you think there are Bad Brain Color Personalities?
People often ask me, “Are there Bad Brain Color Personalities?” It happened again, a few weeks ago, when I received an Green Brain curious email through my website from a young man who had taken my Brain Color Quizzes. He wanted to know if it was bad to be any of the Brain Color Personalities…
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Baking my grandmother’s favorite family holiday cookies!
This morning, after yoga class two of my fellow yogis and I were chatting about the holidays. I told them that I always bake my sweet grandmother’s butter cookies with her secret ingredient for Chanukah. I asked if they would like the recipe; they said yes; and I told them I would send them the…
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Remembering! Where were you?
Tomorrow is the 18th anniversary of 9/11. A solemn time to remember the tragedy, the lives lost and devastated, and where we were on the morning of attacks on our country. I vividly remember taking my usual morning walk in my neighborhood, when one of my neighbors ran down her drive way and told me…
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Do Not Teach Tolerance!
We often read articles in newspaper and/or online or hear people say we need to teach tolerance to children and adults. In my What Color Is Your Brain?® workshops and programs I teach attendees not to be tolerance! You might be wondering why. The answer is: my What Color Is Your Brain?® approach encourages acceptance,…
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Are You A Person of Excellence, Leadership, and/or Encouragement Who Improves People’s Lives?
Do you ever wonder if your sense of excellence, encouragement and/or leadership can improve other people’s lives in your family, workplace, school and/or community? Your Green Brain may contemplate this questions, when you think about your personal and professional life experiences, or when your read an article in a book or newspaper, and/or watch or listen to the…
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Wisdom and Encouragement for Your 2019 New Year’s Resolutions!
Below is my father message to his Lab-Line employees to usher in 1966. I think the meaningful message is still as vital and significant, as it was 53 years ago. Please, modify and apply your business and/or personal perspective to each resolution and share them with your colleagues, family members, clients, and/or friends. The message…
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Attention Jeff Bezos: Unsatisfactory & Disappointing Customer Service from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)!
The following is the email message I sent to Jeff Bezos jeff@amazon.com and his “elite team.” “Bezos views that email address, jeff@amazon.com, as a way to stay close to customers.” Dear Mr. Bezos, I am writing to inform you of a failure in KDP’s customer service. I know that you are engaged with international multi-billions dollar issues and devoting…
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