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They strapped him to his wheel chair.  Then, they strapped him to the bungee cord. What?  A guy in a wheel chair bungee jumping – you’ve got to be kidding me?! This was no ruse, no joke.  This was actually Canada’s Man in Motion Rick Hansen about to be pushed off the platform in his wheelchair to go bungee jumping.  …

How is your sense of humour? I think the real test of your sense of humour is your ability to laugh at yourself.  Good leaders can laugh at themselves because they don’t take themselves too seriously.  If you can laugh at yourself and your own mistakes it means you have a strong sense of self-worth: making mistakes doesn’t threaten you. …

During my boyhood we had 3 different dogs. Our first dog was a poodle cross named Spooky.  Spooky had some nasty habits: he would relieve himself in the shoes of visitors and on the grocery bags when my mom brought in the groceries.  He would also wipe his rear end on the hallway carpet after he had emptied his bowels …

Every Saturday morning it was the same thing.  ‘That sound’ would wake us up.  Yes, that unmistakable sound now indelibly etched into the auditory memory banks of my mind.  Sadly, we no longer hear the sound, but over 10 years ago it was a very important element of our family dynamic. You may know the sound too.  Perhaps you haven’t …