Gen Leadership

January 8, 2013 Paul Sposite Change, History, Improvement, leadership, Life, life coach, Self, selfhelp amplitude, attitudes, audience, back, Beat, beings, breakthrough, cards, Carnegie, category, Chaplin, Character, chest, Christopher, communications, Compare, Conditions, Dale, definition, descent, Effective, Engender, Europe, examples, existence, ˌdʒɛn, four, freedom, generation, generations, generosities, genus, goal, goals, Greek, individuals, Kinship, knowledge, Latin, leader, leaders, leadership, Lets, lost, meanings, noun, parents, Part, pupil, relation, relationships, revolution, sake, Self, skills, speech, Take, teacher, techniques, tool, truth, Upon, verb, violence

Leadership is all-to-often defined in terms that can often times sound controlling or manipulative. Back in 1982 or 83 I was given the opportunity to take the Dale Carnegie course in Effective Communications, part of the course content was his book, How to win friends and influence people, the title never sat well with me, … Continue reading Gen Leadership

Ben Franklin and Leadership

August 21, 2012August 21, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Leadership, selfhelp Account, action, actions, advent, america, American, arrival, articles, bases, basics, boat, british, Case, cell, communication, Commutation, decision, decisions, descriptions, destination, dollar, examples, existence, face, facebook, fact, Faith, father, fathers, feedback, feelings, France, Franklin, French, Gandhi, Google, great, grid, happenings, himself, History, independence, intuition, Jesus, leader, leaders, leadership, letter, Life, liner, Look, loop, Luther, Martian, moment, Monarchy, months, Nation, news, office, options, orders, ports, purpose, qualities, reaction, results, revolution, rumors, Self, seminars, solution, Statesmen, Sure, tablets, team, text, think, times, tools, trust, Verbal, vessel, Washington, weeks, word, words, workshop, world, Written

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Leadership is something we hear about all the time, we can attend seminars, read books and articles and even blog post. Everyone seems have the solution to being a leader. To me it seems that the title of the book or workshop seems to be more important that … Continue reading Ben Franklin and Leadership

Words and Power

May 24, 2012May 25, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, Education, Improvement, Leadership, Life, life coach, news, Politics, Religon, selfhelp america, American, Americans, Benjamin, bias, Catholic, chains, church, communication, conclusion, conversation, Death, decision, defense, definitions, destinies, Diamond, distinction, dream, election, English, example, Excellence, fact, Fair, fathers, Forbid, Franklin, friend, gaffes, gale, Gentlemen, George, hearts, Henry, Historians, History, importance, injustice, Instead, language, leaders, Life, make, Martian, moments, Most, narrative, Nation, news, newspapers, nuance, nuances, omission, Patrick, peace, permanence, person, Play, power, purpose, pursuit, result, revolution, Self, Source, speech, Take, theories, three, Trayvon, truth, woman, word, words, Zimmerman

Benjamin Franklin (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Words are powerful things; they have the power to change history, to create revolution and to mend broken hearts. I was reminded of this fact this morning when I gave the following quote to a friend: There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. … Continue reading Words and Power

My Detroit

May 3, 2012May 3, 2012 Paul Sposite History, Just for Fun, Michigan accomplishments, actions, advantage, alliance, allies, American, Anne, Anthony, Antoine, apostles, architecture, area, areas, Augustus, auto, Avenue, avenues, Érie, Battle, beginnings, Belestre, Belle, Berry, better, Boulevard, boulevards, Bréhant, brick, Britain, british, Cadillac, Canada, Canadians, Capital, Cars, Carver, Casson, cathedral, Catholic, Center, century, Charles, Chicago, Chief, chimneys, church, Circus, Clair, COLLECTION, Commander, Commerce, consumption, context, Cream, culture, Davison, Death, deception, destruction, detroit, Detroiter, Diamond, District, Dollier, Drugs, Edison, emblems, encouragement, Encyclopedia, Enfant, expedition, expressway, Fair, Falls, fame, father, Faygo, feet, Flag, fort, forts, François, France, freeway, French, From, frontier, Gabriel, Galinée, General, goal, Gogh, Gordy, Gothic, government, Grand, great, Greenville, Griffon, heart, Hemisphere, Hennepin, heritage, Hispanic, Historic, History, hotel, Huron, idol, immigrants, Indian, Indians, industry, innovation, Institute, Island, Isle, James, Jefferson, Jonathan, journal, justice, kids, lake, lakes, leader, Life, location, Louis, Made, Main, Major, mansions, Many, Marie, Marine, Marriott, McNichols, michigan, midwest, Mile, minister, Mission, missionary, Model, Montreal, Mothe, Motown, motto, Murder, Nation, National, Nations, Native, news, newspaper, North, Northwest, notes, November, numbers, office, officer, oldest, Orleans, Ottawa, outpost, Paris, parish, park, parks, path, Picoté, pieces, Pierre, places, Ponchartrain, Pontchartrain, Pontiac, Portrait, Potato, pride, priest, Proclamation, rail, Rangers, Rape, rebellion, region, Register, Renaissance, René, response, restrictions, revitalization, revival, revolution, Richard, River, road, roads, Robert, Rogers, Roman, Royal, sales, Salle, Sanders, Sault, Self, settlement, settlers, Several, Siege, soda, Soldiers, State, Statue, strait, streets, Stroh, Sulpician, system, territories, territory, theater, Thomas, thoroughfares, three, Timbers, traffic, transportation, tree, trees, tribes, Tunnel, Twelve, Vernor, Vernors, Vincent, warehouse, Warren, Washington, Waterworks, Wayne, weapons, West, Westcott, Western, Wikipedia, Windsor, Woodward, world

Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m a Detroiter, I was born in the city, and I love the city. I no longer live in Detroit, I now live about 30 minutes outside of the city, but still consider myself a Detroiter. … Continue reading My Detroit

Attitude, you got one?

February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 Paul Sposite Change, Control, Education, Ego, Faith, History, Improvement, Life, Religon, Self, selfhelp action, advice, areas, aspects, assessment, attitude, attitudes, bathroom, Beatitudes, Best, Change, children, commentary, conventions, conversation, courage, coworker, department, depression, discontentment, discovery, disposition, dispositions, dyer, effort, Faith, forces, Frame, friends, generation, George, glass, goal, great, greatest, Hall, heart, heaven, Hers, History, human, husband, image, Improvement, James, Jesus, justice, kingdom, knowledge, leader, leisure, lesson, lessons, Life, Look, luck, manner, Martha, mercy, misery, moments, money, Nation, Nope, Notice, office, Once, ones, opinions, orientation, outlook, peace, persecution, person, pitfalls, politics, Prayer, realign, Refocus, religion, reminder, revolution, Self, shall, situation, solution, soul, Source, spirit, start, Still, task, teacher, Teachers, tendency, theirs, Thirst, times, tools, towards, Verse, visor, wallet, Washington, Wayne, wife, William, woman, word, words, worth

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. ~William James (1842 - 1910) Attitude…. What a powerful word. manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind: a negative attitude; group attitudes. … Continue reading Attitude, you got one?

An Open Letter to all Catholics, to all Americans

February 7, 2012February 7, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, Civil Rights, conservative, Conservative Catholics, Election, Faith, Founding Fathers, Freedom, GOP, History, liberal, Liberal Catholics, Life, Media, Politics, Religon, social justice Abortion, action, administration, amendment, American, Americans, Archdiocese, back, baptism, bases, beliefs, benefits, bigotry, bishop, Bishops, Boyea, brother, Cardinal, Catholic, Catholics, Christians, church, coach, compassion, concept, conference, Congressional, constitution, convictions, coverage, Dear, decisions, Democrats, department, determination, detroit, diocese, disease, Dolan, Drugs, efforts, emotions, error, errors, fact, Faith, fathers, Federal, foundation, freedom, freedoms, From, gold, government, great, health, healthcare, heart, hearts, History, Hold, Hospitals, human, importance, infancy, injustice, insistence, institutions, intervention, John, letter, Liberals, Life, litigation, Mandate, michigan, moment, Nation, needs, neither, obama, obligation, obligations, open, options, ours, Paul, payment, perfection, period, pillars, plans, politician, President, protection, regime, religion, Religious, Republicans, response, revelation, revolution, rhetoric, rights, road, ROME, serialization, services, Shepard, Socialism, Source, speech, Sposite, stance, statement, sterilization, stool, system, temptations, Through, times, Timothy, treatments, truth, Tyranny, Utopia, Victory, Washington, woman, words, world, York

Dear Catholics: This Open letter it to all Catholics, be they liberal or conservative, laps or practicing, fallen away or on their way back home to Rome. In-fact this open letter should be shared with non-Catholics, non-Christians and anyone who is concerned about their personal liberty and freedom. This letter is intended to excite you, … Continue reading An Open Letter to all Catholics, to all Americans

Could Boys Town work today? And other thoughts on Charity and Social Justice.

January 19, 2012January 19, 2012 Paul Sposite Catholic, Change, church, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, conservative, Conservative Catholics, Control, Election, Faith, Family, Founding Fathers, History, Improvement, liberal, Liberal Catholics, Life, Media, Politics, Religon, selfhelp, social justice, Tax affairs, African, Albert, Allen, america, American, Americans, Angeles, Appeal, Archbishop, Arcus, army, Arthur, article, articles, author, benevolence, Bill, Bishops, Boko, book, Both, brother, California, Call, Canterbury, Catholic, Center, Character, children, church, Citizenry, coach, coalition, college, Comment, concept, concepts, constitution, Cool, Cosby, Could, creative, Deal, Declaration, deeds, Defend, definition, depend, dependency, depressions, discussion, documents, donations, dreams, Effective, effort, efforts, Egyptian, Equal, example, extremists, fact, Faith, Faithfunder, father, fathers, Federal, Finalist, Flanagan, forces, foundation, freedom, friends, Fund, generation, generations, government, governments, great, Gross, handouts, Haram, Harold, heritage, human, independence, individuals, inspiration, January, John, justice, Kennedy, leadership, letter, Life, Link, Look, manner, Market, memory, million, Mobile, Mobilize, money, moneys, Movements, Nation, National, nature, needs, Negroes, neighbors, North, November, obligation, obligations, Occupy, oppression, organization, paperwork, path, Paul, performance, person, Philadelphia, Philanthropist, President, Principles, Prior, Private, provider, PRWEB, racism, recessions, redistribution, redistributionist, regulations, reliance, responsibilities, revolution, Richard, rights, role, salvation, Self, services, Short, Should, social, Socialism, souls, Specifics, sticks, student, study, Successful, system, talent, talks, thoughts, times, Town, treasures, True, truth, Tyranny, unit, Urgent, Vatican, victims, Walter, weapon, Weird, welfare, West, Wikipedia, Williams, words, workers, world, worth

Cover of Boys Town ‎"What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?" -- Walter Williams Williams … Continue reading Could Boys Town work today? And other thoughts on Charity and Social Justice.

Occupy Wall Street and the Founding Fathers

October 11, 2011 Paul Sposite conservative, Election, Founding Fathers, History, liberal, Life, Media, Politics, Tax actions, Adams, Admiral, Alexander, america, American, Anti, arguments, Boston, Britain, british, bush, capitalism, Cargo, caricatures, citizen, Clean, computers, Condoms, constitution, Constitutional, defense, difference, dreams, England, English, failure, fathers, feelings, freedom, freedoms, friends, Giant, government, Hall, Hamilton, Harbor, hearts, History, Illegal, Isoroku, Japanese, lawn, Letters, logic, message, money, movement, Nation, nature, Obamas, Occupy, opinion, option, Over, pain, pamphlets, Parliament, Patriotic, peace, Peaceful, Pearl, Pennsylvania, Political, politics, port, President, Protest, pursuit, representation, resort, Respectful, revolution, rights, room, roots, Rude, Self, Semitic, series, spirit, statement, statements, street, subjects, system, taxation, tent, tenure, Thomas, threat, times, Town, violence, Wall, warrior, Washington, wishes, Woodstockish, words, world, Yamamoto

The new movement, Occupy Wall Street (OWS), is interesting, not because I agree with them, I don’t. I happen to like money and capitalism, I find that working and having money is a good thing, no it’s interesting because of the contrast between them and the Tea Party people…. Now, I have not taken part … Continue reading Occupy Wall Street and the Founding Fathers

American Catholic Council hits Detroit and Archbishop Allen Vigneron hits back

June 14, 2011June 14, 2011 Paul Sposite Called by God, Catholic, church, conservative, Conservative Catholics, Eucharist, Faith, History, liberal, Mass, Media, news, Politics, Prayer, Religon, social justice Abortion, agenda, Allen, American, Anglican, Anti, Archbishop, arrogance, articles, bate, bells, bible, book, bridge, Calif, California, Case, Catholic, Catholicism, Catholics, christ, church, Communisim, concept, confession, Consecration, Conservative, convention, Council, Defy, democracy, detroit, door, Dump, Faith, Folks, freedom, From, frstephensmuts, greatest, hell, Heresy, heritage, Hoax, host, ideas, institution, Irreplaceable, Jesus, Kaufman, lady, Latin, lessons, liberal, Liberals, Link, LITTLE, Lord, male, mantra, mass, Michael, nature, needs, Nope, Nuns, outsider, parish, path, Paul, pentecost, person, Pfleger, Philip, plans, pope, poster, priest, Problem, Prophetic, question, read, relationship, Relic, religion, REMOVAL, Review, revolution, Rites, ROME, room, roots, rules, Savior, solution, Stolen, Tiber, tide, times, traditions, Transubstantiation, tree, True, truth, Vigneron, voice, weekend, woman

This past weekend was an exciting time in Detroit for Catholics. The city was host to the American Catholic Council (Read here). Now let me be clear, this is a dissident group, they are Catholic only by name, and I do not support them and anyway. So, you may be asking yourself, why than, was … Continue reading American Catholic Council hits Detroit and Archbishop Allen Vigneron hits back

The Constitution: A Review

March 26, 2011 Paul Sposite Civil Rights, conservative, Education, liberal, Media, Politics Activist, agenda, america, bible, Boston, constitution, Constitutional, contempt, court, degree, documents, enemies, enemy, fathers, government, greatest, guide, Gutzman, Incorrect, judges, Kevin, places, purpose, republic, Review, revolution, Sates, Self, Supreme, treason, truth, truths, Tyranny, words, youth

Cover via Amazon The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution, a book by Kevin R. C. Gutzman, J.D., Ph.D. I have just finished this 221 page review of Constitutional Law (Or lack of). Mr. Gutzman takes you from the writing of the document to present day, showing the abuse and out right contempt for the … Continue reading The Constitution: A Review

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An American Point of View

Just an American that loves his Country and his Faith

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Gen Leadership

Ben Franklin and Leadership

Words and Power

My Detroit

Attitude, you got one?

Occupy Wall Street and the Founding Fathers

The Constitution: A Review

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