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Take Your Attitude On A Positive Spin

December 10, 2020

Harvey's Weekly Column

One day a professor announced a surprise test.  He distributed a paper to each student with the front side face down.  Then he asked the class to turn over the page and start the test, but there were no questions on the paper – just a black dot in the center of the page. “I

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Achievement Takes More Than A Dream

December 3, 2020

Harvey's Weekly Column

A scrawny old man wanted to get a job at a nearby lumberjack camp so he approached the boss who politely tried to talk him out of the idea, thinking the old man wouldn’t be able to fell a tree, much less keep up with the daily quotas. “Give me a few minutes of your

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Gratitude Is A Winning Attitude

November 25, 2020

Harvey's Weekly Column

2020 has presented challenges for all of us, not the least of which is wondering if life will ever return to normal.  It’s been tough sometimes to be grateful for much, considering what is happening all around us.  But I have an idea that a friend shared with me when I heard grumbling about not

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Stir up a recipe for success

November 19, 2020

Harvey's Weekly Column

A sixth-grade girl was running for the post of secretary of her elementary school class.  A major part of her campaign was a speech to be given to her classmates, but she had no idea what to say.  So she asked her mother for ideas. “Well, you love to cook,” her mom said.  “Why don’t

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Experience is a Tough Teacher

November 12, 2020

Harvey's Weekly Column

Have you ever heard the expression “seeing the elephant?” It’s an expression that came out of the California gold rush. Those planning to go west in search of gold announced to their friends that they were “going to see the elephant.” Those who turned back discouraged claimed they had seen “the elephant’s tracks” or the

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Welcome Competition To Improve

November 5, 2020

Harvey's Weekly Column

The dominant sports media personality in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for most of the last 75-plus years never played any of the games he wrote about and never made it to college, much less journalism school.  But he became one of the most popular newspaper and radio personalities in town, with a broadcast style that

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