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By James Strock
By James Strock
Congratulations if you’ve made it through your goals for the first few days of the New Year. That is no small thing, taking first steps. Nonetheless, it may be timely to ask: are your resolutions …
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By James Strock
By James Strock
Thank you for visiting the Serve to Lead blog. This website is a living resource dedicated to your reaching your highest level of performance, and contributing your greatest value, in the new world …
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November 30 is the anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's birth. …
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One layer [of Churchill’s character and personality] was certainly seventeenth century. The eighteenth century in him is obvious. There was the nineteenth century, and a large slice, of course, of the …
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”