Banish Fear Banish fear a slogan used by quality control guru W. Edwards Deming. He understood that fear froze a workplace, that workers were reluctant to speak up, to share new ideas, or to coordinate well, let alone to improve the quality of their output. I have a nice Ranger School story that describes that condition […]
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Are you creating your own determined future, or are you chasing the red laser dot and find yourself totally distracted? This is an excerpt from The Simple Little Rule: The Golden Rule Rediscovered. Responsibility It seems no one speaks of responsibility anymore. It’s like we are left to our pathetic animal desires and “what will be, […]
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Lost Sense of Morals Have we entered a tract to a sense of lost morals? Have we reached a period in our culture where the majority (trying to be nice I suppose) have allowed a minority to dictate how they will practice a religion and when. It seems like we can’t talk about God, so […]
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Caring Angel: My Golden Rule story by Mollie Ellerkamp I am always searching for Golden Rule Stories. Since I began this thought process, Golden Rule stories just seem to be happening right in front of me almost every day now. This one pertains to a caring angel I discovered at the Hospital caring for her […]
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Book Signings – Win The sweet sensation of autographing books. The smiles on the readers’ faces, the excitement they feel while waiting to hold the book for the first time. This is the win of book signings, for sure. There is always the perfect opportunity to talk about the book, the reason it was written, […]
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Updated WebSite: Check Out “New Reviews” Page It’s finally up our new “Reviews and Press” Page at my website! As we receive new reviews and press releases they now have a place to reside. I was very excited to see the finished product. Reviews like Clarion’s “Foreword Reviews” which rated “The Simple Little Rule: The Golden […]
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First Books Arrive! The first books arrive! Monday morning I got the call: “delivery for Mr. Ellerkamp – 577 pounds on a pallet, I’m nearby, can I come now?” The driver asked me on the phone. The dispatcher had called me Thursday and indicated that delivery would be made between 1pm and 5pm on Monday… […]
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Standards of Reasoning: Powering Justice I realized that I haven’t really covered a phrase I use frequently within my writing and speaking. The Standards of Reasoning grew out of my research for the Supporting Principle Justice. As I was putting the Supporting Principles together I went through forty or fifty virtues in my attempt to understand […]
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Changing Mental Attitude Many things in our lives are directly attributable to our mental attitude surrounding that life moment. The story I tell below is one of those moments. Our thinking and decision making create who we are. Yes, our physical attributes play a role, certainly, but the mental attitude we maintain in our lives play […]
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WRITING FUN For a most of my life I’ve been writing. Journals mostly. I collected thoughts and ideas about what was going on in my daily existence. These writings were somewhat random, with little discipline about subject or purpose. If you have followed this blog at all you’ll understand my “Apartheid Moment” and how that […]
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