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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier (Part 3)

April 15, 2024/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

This is my third blog based on the recent book from Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, “Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier.” In this post, I’ll cover the concept of the Four Idols that Brooks draws from St. Thomas Aquinas, who spoke of the four false idols: money, […]

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier (Part 2)

March 25, 2024/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

This is my second post based on the recent book from Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey, “Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier.” The authors introduced me (and maybe you, too) to a new word/concept: Metacognition (which technically means “thinking about thinking”). It’s the act of experiencing your emotions […]

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier (Part 1)

March 4, 2024/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

—— One of my favorite authors and commentators, Arthur C. Brooks, recently teamed up with Oprah Winfrey to write a very complete science and sociology book on achieving happiness. It’s called “Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier.” Coincidentally, while I was reading the book, my son, Matt, shared this […]

Excellence Wins

February 5, 2024/in Extraordinary Customer/Client Service/by Tom Doescher

I’ve had the pleasure of staying at the Naples (Florida) Ritz-Carleton many times over the years, and also at the Portaman Ritz-Carleton Shanghai a dozen times as we were investigating and then opened the Plante Moran Shanghai office in 2005. My experiences were like no other hotel by a large measure — and it wasn’t […]

Are You Willing to Seek Advice?

January 15, 2024/in Sharpening Your Personal Leadership Skills/by Tom Doescher

In 2011, I began writing and posting blogs for my clients and future clients. Sometime during the first two years, my brother, “Unco Dan,” told me that he felt my best blogs were the ones where I got more personal. Well, he would like this one, I’m sure. In the Doescher Advisors Executive Health Checkup, […]