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                    [Title] => Provide a special place
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“A chair is still a chair, even when there’s no one sitting there....” Familiar with lyrics?

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-06 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1503910 [Title] => Fixing stalled cars [Summary] =>

How do men act when their cars malfunction?

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-25 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133774 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1295640 [Title] => Business is a mystery [Summary] =>

Business remains a mystery to me.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1277404 [Title] => Disappointments and expectations [Summary] =>

I posted a question on my Facebook page: are all disappointments bad?  Among the many who commented, one said he hated being disappointed because he would lose confidence, get confused, and wouldn’t know what to do after.  Another said that disappointments make him stronger in his resolve to do better.

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Budget airlines today have many kinds of restrictions especially when it comes to weight management.

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Your alarm clock churns its ugly sound. You dress up while the morning news tells you what happened in the world while you were sleeping.

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I get to meet people all the time  when I give keynotes, when I speak in sales rallies, when I speak in conferences, when I attend conferences, when I meet people in the airport.

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“Francis, you are so hopelessly out of fashion,” one businessman remarked. “Of course, honesty depends on the situation of the moment.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 734994 [Title] => Improving on the serenity prayer [Summary] =>

Speakers have quoted it.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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