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My friend Brian Jud sent this to me. I thought I’d share it with you. 21 positive thoughts to begin 2012 ONE.  Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. TWO.   Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. [...]

  The resource-rich South American economy has surged on exports to China, unhampered by the 2008 financial crisis that has hit growth in the UK. CEBR chief executive Douglas McWilliams said: “Brazil has beaten the European countries at soccer for a long time, but beating them at economics is a new phenomenon. Our world economic [...]

Here’s some uplift­ing news for the hol­i­day sea­son. A new study finds that in 2011 Amer­i­cans were the most gen­er­ous peo­ple in the world. The U.S. rose from fifth place on the “World Giv­ing Index” in 2010 to num­ber one this year. Ire­land placed sec­ond, fol­lowed by Aus­tralia, New Zealand and Great Britain. What tipped [...]

Readers, you might want to check out the TEDtalk by Ron Gutman on SMILES – now I understand there is a Kindle book based on Ron’s talk called: Smile: The Astonishing Power of a Simple Act.

Following a report in Digitimes, blogs repeated the rumor late yesterday that the iPad and iPhone will have a complete overhaul in 2012. The anonymous source: the guys in Asia who supply the parts. So get ready – should be exciting. Tom

By JOHN MACKEY Is the United States exceptional? Of course we are! Two hundred years ago we were one of the poorest countries in the world. We accounted for less than 1% of the world’s total GDP. Today our GDP is 23% of the world’s total and more than twice as large as the No. 2 [...]

This is from Rich Coral guard Karrlgaard. “It’s one thing to fall into a ditch. It’s quite another to paint and decorate the ditch and call it home. That’s where we are with the US economy.”

Focus—”It means saying no, not saying yes. We do very few things at Apple. We are $100bn in revenue with very few products. There are only so many grade A players. If you spread yourself out over too many things, none of them will be great.” Simplicity—”Make complex things simple. A lot of people think [...]

Ronald Johnson, is the new chief executive of, J.C. Penney  (founder J.C. Penney started in small Missouri town) said Monday that he is out to “re-imagine” the department store. Mr. Johnson is the former retail chief of Apple Inc. If you’ve ever been in an Apple store, it will be really interesting to see what he does. Tom

Tim Tebow. I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal. http://tiny.cc/gplkv —————- Every day we are reminded of more things Tim Tebow can’t do. He cannot throw a proper pass. He cannot stand still in the pocket. He can’t run a conventional offense. He runs, but he doesn’t run [...]