One of the most interesting and inspiring people I've ever met is Robert "Dusty" Staub, chairman of Staub Leadership here in Greensboro.  I met him around 1995, when I took a 5-day High Impact Leadership Seminar.  I doubt he has any recollection of me, but that's okay.

Dusty writes a column for Triad Business Journal that I'm quite fond of, and this week's entry is exceptionally good.  I can't provide a link to it because it's for paid subscribers only, but I will excerpt just a bit here. 

Dusty says, "If you want more love in your life, you will need to give more love away.  Granting greatness, seeing the very best that there is in another person, is a gift that also gives back.  When you are willing and able to help another human being, whether at home or at work, realize their own deeper capacities, they shower you with the same."

In our current world of "Gimme More" and me, me, me, Dusty continues to courageously shine a beacon of light.  He ends his article this way: "You, too, have the power to transform every moment of your life through acts of affirmation and positive expectation of the capacity of others -- granting them the possibility of stepping into their own greatness.  Doing so, you step into your own capacity to both bless and be a blessing in this world."  Then he issues his challenge:  "Are you truly ready, now, to grant greatness to those around you and thus to yourself?"

Thanks, Dusty.  I love your column and I think that you've got a lot of things figured out that most people (especially in business) cannot and will not ever realize.

"As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; they kill us for their sport." - King Lear , 4.1.41-42

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"Life is trouble.  Only death is not.  To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble."  - Alexis Zorba (the Greek, from the film Zorba the Greek)

So I'm on the phone with Budd, and he's eating lunch and he puts me on speaker phone, and gives me his quote of the day, which is:

"It takes both hands to handle my sausage."

Alrighty then.

You're always a weiner, Budd.  I never sausage a guy.