My wife and I rented The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman last weekend and really enjoyed it.  If you haven’t seen it yet, it is about two men who are sharing a hospital room both fighting sickness and they find out at the same time that they have between six and 12 [...]

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I started "re-reading" Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird.  I was going through my bookshelf the other night and found a lot of my "required reading" from high school and thought I might need to read these things through at least one good time since they are American classics. 
Funny thing is that I [...]

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I’m re-reading Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life, and came across a point that hit home with me - hard - and I’m sure a lot of people just kind of gloss over it and don’t even pay that much attention to it.  Pastor Warren is talking about how to worship Almighty God even [...]

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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie 

I read this quote this morning and I totally agree with it!  One thing that great leaders do is empower those around them to get better, do better and succeed.  [...]

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I guess I would like to welcome myself back.  I have been on vacation and taking some time for some other things over the last few weeks, so I haven’t had a good chance to post to TrippAtkins.com in several weeks. Look for new content to be hitting the site in the next few days…maybe [...]

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