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  • The priority of rest

    Abraham Lincoln once said, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Apparently, Lincoln thought the time spent for preparation and rest was more important than the time spent actually swinging the blade!Did you know that when you compare all of the

  • Raising Expectations

    How optimistic of a person are you? Do you expect great things to happen? Author Norman Vincent Peale once observed that people tend to get what they expect in life. I once heard a pastor speak on this very phenomenon; he coined it "God's Law of Expectations." He noted that most people tend to hear

  • Preparing to fight the perfect war

    How would you prepare to fight the perfect war? Is it possible, or does this only apply when used as a rhetorical question? While using a popular search engine to search the World Wide Web, it was noted that the words perfect and war are rarely seen together. Is this an indicator that it is

  • Searching for answers during bad times

    In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado, shooting, people across the nation began trying to make sense of this truly senseless act. Of course, some people immediately needed answers about friends and loved ones living nearby:Were they at the movie theater that night? If so, are they ok?Police

  • Something from nothing?

    One of my new favorite quotes comes from Bruce Lee.Bruce Lee once said, when referring to life, "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." Interestingly, a discipline that Bruce Lee and many others advocate to help hack away at the unessential aspects of life is

  • Protecting yourself from termination fees

    Uniformed service members are constantly confronted with stressful situations, such as receiving permanent change of station orders or being told to prepare for a short-notice deployment. The last thing they need is added stress from a company charging them early termination fees to get out of a

  • Feeding Wolves

    There was a famous Native American story that tells of a young boy who was walking through a field one day and came upon an old man sitting on the ground. With his arms and legs folded, staring off into the distance, it appeared that the old man was almost in a trance. After a couple of awkward

  • I, the gay service member

    Editor's note: This article was submitted anonymously by a Team March member.Last year on September 20, a monumental event occurred that affected a large portion of the United States Armed Forces, the repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" program.According to our Commander in Chief, this program

  • Random acts of kindness go far

    The 1999 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, held in New Zealand, brought leaders from around the world together to discuss the challenges of sustaining domestic economic reform and liberalization. Among those in attendance, was newly appointed and virtually unknown, Prime Minister of

  • Stressed Out Lately?

    Life can really throw zingers at our game plan, huh? We are so eager to excel in our lives by hoping that certain events will occur, which catapult us to the next and better level. Yet, when a myriad of changes occur simultaneously, we can easily become stressed or overwhelmed. I speak from