Category: Columns
Living Treasures: 56 Years of Entertainment, Dozens of Causes, One Really Cool Guy – Clint Eastwood
By: Rachel Schaeffer Imagine this year marks your 81st birthday. See yourself sharp as a whip, continuously learning, and contributing meaningfully to the world. Know that you are inspiring people across the globe to contemplate uncomfortable world events and situations. You’re a real Renaissance person: a golf enthusiast, talented jazz pianist and composer, helicopter pilot, [...]
A Moment of Clarity: Strategic Stress Relief
By: Marci Wise • Columnist for A Moment of Clarity “Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.” – Maureen Killoran Fast food, speed dating, e-mail and energy drinks – we’ve become a society that moves in fast forward. A successful day is [...]
Living Treasures: From Prisoner to President to Peacemaker – Nelson Mandela
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Living Treasures Columnist for Positive Impact Magazine How can a prison number be used to create hope for the millions of people suffering from HIV/AIDS? When human rights activist Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for his efforts to end apartheid, he was given identification number 46664 (pronounced four double six, six four) [...]
A Moment of Clarity: Six Easy Steps to Completeness
By: Marci Wise Positive Impact Magazine Columnist for A Moment of Clarity Every day represents a new beginning – another chance to finally conquer old demons and step into a more empowered life. Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t have to achieve a size six or have an overflowing bank account to start feeling better [...]
Robert Redford–Shining Star for the Environment
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Columnist for Living Treasures This past October, Robert Redford was knighted in the Legion of Honor, France’s highest cultural honor. The elite recognition of merit recognizes not only military, but also cultural, scientific, or social contributions of people from any nationality. In a ceremony at the Paris presidential palace, French President [...]
5 Steps To Unlocking Greatness: It’s All About Attitude
By: Marci Wise – Columnist for A Moment of Clarity Stand back. I’ve got a plan and I know how to use it. Practically from our first steps we’re taught to be goal-oriented – schooled to plan for the fiscally responsible future, climb the career and life ladder one rung at a time, and keep [...]
David Gershon—Living the Possible – Transformation
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Blog #3 Secondly, what are the leverage points? They’re all very carefully “screened,” if you will, to see where I can make the biggest impact, where the biggest needs are, and then designing a strategy that could actually work if gone to scale. A key principle in Social Change 2.0 is [...]
Gratitude: For A Better Future
By: Marci Wise – Blog #3 Work toward a better future. Practicing gratitude also serves the purpose of keeping us focused on what is, instead of what could have been. Although we must have a vision of what we’d like to achieve down the line, the power moment is this one. Read more >
David Gershon—Living the Possible – Change
By: Rachel Schaeffer – Blog #2 First, how do you really make change happen—like what does it really take at all levels to be successful no matter what kind of change you want to make to improve society. There are so many needs and so many aspects of society that need to change—almost every aspect. [...]















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