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Homeowners are always renovating with an eye on resale value. Whether it’s a basement remodel, deck addition, roof replacement, kitchen counter upgrade, or installing a multi lane racer waterslide from your bedroom window into your saltwater swimming pool, anything you can do to boost your selling price down the road is a worthwhile investment. Even if it’s frustrating and expensive and not especially gratifying in the moment. During my…

Gallup’s annual poll on employee engagement has collected survey results from nearly forty million people. Here’s one question from their inventory: At work, do you have the opportunity to do what you do best? This sounds like a dream job, right? Who doesn’t want walk into the office every day and stretch their best muscles? Sadly, not everyone has this luxury. The daily experience of using one’s unique talents…

Gallup has been conducting public opinion polls for the past eighty years. Founded by one of the great market researchers of the last century, their name has become synonymous with relevant, timely, and accurate research on what people around the world think and feel. If you’ve never read their annual happiness and well being index, it’s a fascinating study on human behavior. Their survey questions ask people to think…

Dreams in and of themselves are meaningful, but only to the extent that we know why we have them in the first. That’s the cleanest and truest fuel that drives us to move our story forward. Without it, we’re just postponing our happiness until some imagined moment in the future when everything is just right. Except that time never comes. Just when we get there, there disappears. Think about…

Churchill, the legendary politician and writer, once said that if you have enemies, good, because that mean you’ve stood up for something sometime in your life. Anderson, the great muckraking journalist, said that nothing produces such exhilaration, zest for daily life as a protracted, ugly, vendetta that rages for years and exhausts both sides, often bringing one to ruin. Plutarch, the famous essayist, said that the existence of enemies…