July 3ML Briefcase

ARTICLES on LEADERSHIP

If this is the first time you have visited the 3 Minute Learning Blog, below you will find summaries from the unique 3ML Briefcase. Over the first 2 weeks of every month, summaries for all 32 articles appearing in the current month’s online magazine will be presented. Articles are presented free of charge and rotate every day with 4 new articles appearing in the respective subject areas (leadership, business and management, marketing and productivity). To read articles, go to the 3 Minute Learning home page.

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Articles for Inspiration

Steve Goodier

Presented are 6 short stories to inspire you today. The story titles are:

(1) CELEBRATE YOU!

(2) THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS

(3) THE SECOND BEST TIME TO BEGIN

(4) FEELING MORE THANKFUL

(5) ALL THE JOY YOU NEED

(6) SUCCESS TAX

Building Self-Confidence for a Lifetime of Achievement

Richard Milazzo

Each of us has a reservoir of ability that we habitually fail to use. Failing to identify and develop our abilities contributes to many of the inferiorities that we feel. By building self-confidence we can experience everything that we are and all we want to be.

Forcing Your Goals versus Empowering Your Dreams

Thomas Herold

Many people understand the concept of setting goals in life. What most people don't know is that goals require a constant stream of force behind them to keep them alive. You need to push them all the time to make them come true. What do I mean by force and push? To force something is to compel through pressure or necessity. To push a goal is to apply enough force to the goal to keep it fresh and empowered.

Overcoming Self-Doubt

Julie Fuimano, RN, MBA, CSAC

Everyone experiences self-doubt at some point in his or her life. For many people, self-doubt can be pervasive, even crippling. It can impact your relationships. It destroys confidence. It causes procrastination or lack of effort. It can be extremely frustrating to live with the reverberating voice in your head telling you you’re not good enough or to have whatever you might want.

FAST FACT:

Which 2008 presidential candidate said this about the current energy crisis? The United States faces a fundamental threat to American democracy and a crisis of confidence. The energy crisis gripping the nation threatens the very security of our nation.

Actually neither current candidate has expressed the energy crisis in those words; it was President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Gas price at that time was 90 cents a gallon ($2.69 in today’s dollars). Part of the issue then as it is now, is the control of oil producers over the energy markets. These countries, mostly totalitarian in nature, can artificially create a crisis by simply stating it may slow down production. With the US importing 60 percent of its oil to meet energy needs that supports the economy and culture, withholding oil according to Carter is the “moral equivalent of war.” Unfortunately almost 30 years later the US still has no formidable alternative energy policy.

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