ALL RESOURCES BY Robert Siegel
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The Worst of Times and the Best of Times >
These two were made of heroic stuff.
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Five Tips to Balance Your Budget and Manage Your Time >
When you're lying on your deathbed, you're not likely to wish you'd spent more time at the office and less time at home with your family.
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Minding Your Own Business >
We're all familiar with business owners or CEOs who hurry—to do any small task, no matter how humble, needed by the business. Their minds are occupied with the whole operation, intent upon it—hardly bored.
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Divine Drudgery - Work with Pure Intentions >
All jobs involve drudgery, but work for its own sake may indeed have the best results.
Beyond the Reach of Skill and Art >
On the first day of classes, a new freshman walked out of the Princeton library feeling exalted by his new status and the ivied walls about him. Nearby, loafing on the grass, a bum in baggy pants, ragged sweater, and unkempt long hair was staring into…
Courage in a High Calling >
Two arborist brothers performed a marvelous feat in our yard today. They cut down, and into stove-length logs, two dying white pines and a diseased oak tree. Afterwards, they trimmed a second oak. The trees measured over a foot thick and seventy feet…
A Song of Praises >
for the gray nudge of dawn at the window
for the chill that hangs around the bed and slips
its cold tongue under the covers
for the cat that walks over my face purring murderously
for the warmth of the hip next to mine and sweet lethargy
for…
Peeling An Orange >
The famous pianist Paderewski once was asked to name the most important event in his life. "Whatever I happen to be doing at the moment is the most important," he said. "Whether playing Chopin or peeling an orange."
Paderewski's reply reveals one…
