Archive for January, 2007

May 26, 2006 — It was Chris Gardner’s life, and suddenly one of the biggest movie stars in the world was acting it out. Will Smith was playing Chris Gardner.
Watch Bob Brown’s full report on “20/20″ tonight at 10 p.m.
“He had begun to study me,” Gardner said. “Now, that made me uncomfortable. I [...]


Chris Gardner has pursued happiness, from the Glide soup kitchen to the big screen
-San Francisco Chronicle
Chris Gardner is at the top of his game. Hell, he’s at the top of anybody’s game.
Money. Power. Looks. Houses. Cars. A beautiful woman. A closet stuffed with hundreds of custom-made suits. A Rolodex stuffed with thousands of name-brands, [...]


Plot Summary for
Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker [...]


How to Keep Your Resolutions
By Kristin Edelhauser from Entrepreneur.com
Like the majority of people out there, we’d bet good money one of the first things you did this year was make a resolution or two, be it a personal goal, like getting fit, or one that’ll improve your business, like updating your marketing plan.


It’s a stark irony of the Western calendar that the odometer turns over smack dab in the middle of winter—the one time of the year when most people can’t rouse themselves to clean their bathrooms, much less make an ambitious, life-changing, behavioral U-turn. If you’re the type who likes to ring in the New Year [...]


Closing Cycles
By Paulo Coelho
 
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on
staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the
meaning of the other stages we have to go through.
Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters whatever name we give it,
what matters is to leave in [...]