From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
March 1, 2010 at 10:00 am
NEA's national reading celebration takes place each year on or near March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 24, 2010 at 12:00 pm
How was the food? It was good.
How was the movie? It was good.
Can she sing? She's good.
Nowadays, good is not good enough.
Have you noticed that when people are truly impressed ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 24, 2010 at 11:12 am
"The Starbucks Foundation will solicit applications from organizations that provide young people a continuum of services in developing creative approaches to address pressing concerns ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 24, 2010 at 10:35 am
"Youth Service America supports and motivates youth, educators, and service-learning coordinators by distributing over 400 micro grants each year for service and service-learning...
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 24, 2010 at 10:15 am
Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization for projects that are led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities. Open Meadows Foundation ... (
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January 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm
People act consistent with who they believe they are.
THINK about that.
If you define yourself as being exceptional then you act like it. If your self-definition is based on
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 23, 2010 at 10:51 am
The Roosevelt Summer Academy combines a full-time internship with a training curriculum and weekly networking events as part of an integrated program of leadership development. ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 23, 2010 at 10:00 am
Guardian Life Insurance Company of America announces Final Call for 2010 Nominations for Girls Going Places® Program
"This annual Guardian initiative is designed to reward the ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 22, 2010 at 12:00 pm
There is a high price to pay for achievement and fulfillment. Unfortunately, most individuals are mentally bankrupt or too cheap to pay it.
Million-Dollar Question:
How is your ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 21, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Did you know that your body responds to an attack on your character, beliefs, or anything you perceive to be valuable, in the same manner it does to physical threats?
The same ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm
It’s a crazy, competitive world. So, in order to compete, people are mad busy getting their resumes together; getting their blog, twitter, and facebook page together; getting ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 19, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Don't they get on your nerves? They never listen. You try to say things in a different way. You try to explain yourself clearly. You try to have patience, but none of that seems ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 19, 2010 at 11:45 am
I know quite a few parents who would laugh uncontrollably—while taking a blood pressure pill or having a drink—if someone told them that their kids are lowering their blood ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Self-improvement is a perpetual process.
If you want to get better the process never stops. In life you are either growing or rotting; you’re rising or falling.
You're rising ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 16, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Statistics show that 95% of the people who make New Year's Resolutions give up on them by January 15th? Not cool.
Million-Dollar Question:
Are you part of the 95% or
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 15, 2010 at 12:00 pm
The difference between the hero and the coward is not the lack of fear. It’s the lack of action.
The difference between someone who is making a difference and someone who is ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 15, 2010 at 9:07 am
Here is a list of organizations ON THE GROUND in Haiti. (Courtesy of the Regional Council of Churches of Atlanta, Inc.)
American Red Cross
American Red Cross has pledged an initial ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Education is about more than cramming knowledge into a person’s head. (That includes yours.)
If you examined the etymology of the word educate you would find that it leads ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 13, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Many times, what you say you’re afraid of is just a cover-up for a deeper fear.
People say they’re afraid of public speaking, but what they are really afraid of is embarrassment ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 12, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Money tends to make you more of what you already are.
Think about that.
Partying becomes more partying. Investing becomes more investing. Greedy becomes greedier. Caring becomes ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 11, 2010 at 10:32 am
Consciously or unconsciously, everybody is on the hunt for respect. With respect comes power and influence. That's easy to see. Respect is at the core of communication and motivation. ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 11, 2010 at 9:40 am
A good friend of mine just sent me an email about an outstanding opportunity for students.
"We welcome about 20 high school students from low-income backgrounds every summer ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 8, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Undivided attention.
That's a hard to thing to give and an even harder thing to get.
There is hardly enough time in the day to pay attention to your stuff, let alone somebody ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 7, 2010 at 12:00 pm
According to a report by Conference Board, Americans, young and old, hate their jobs. This is a sad state of affairs.
I guess employers need to do better, huh? Maybe. But one ... (
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From Duncan Nuggets™ for Your Noggin -- Al Duncan
January 6, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Your mind cannot directly process a negative.
When told not to do something, your mind has to picture doing it first before it can process not doing it. I'll prove it to you.
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