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Paying it Forward: Is happiness overrated at work? #158
Modern work culture treats happiness as an outcome to be engineered. Where many leadership conversations go wrong by conflating happiness with…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: How to build empathy, improve relationships by seeing others clearly #157
Listening well is harder than ever. Awareness of others is not something we inherit. It is something we practice. With empathy, conflict becomes a…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: Every Day another Opportunity #156
Choices matter. How we act matters. Keep your focus on what is important, rather than what simply feels urgent. Look closer, pause longer. Consider the…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: Why ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’ #155
Shiny new things capture attention as advances. If our culture doesn't value trial and error, learning and making a difference, we just detoured to a…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: Feeling stuck in your job? Your best days are coming #154
Pessimist or optimist, which are you? It's easy to see the worst things, while optimists leverage free will to progress. Happiness begets creativity…
 • Jack Browne

February 2026

January 2026

Paying it Forward: Who am I here for? #151
As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know it when you find it. Make a difference, hearses don't have trailer hitches to take it with you. Life is…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: Courage in crisis for hope and renewal #150
"It's terrible to have sight, but no vision,' said Hellen Keller. Today's uncertainty requires courage in showing up, engageing, & perservering…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: Ain’t coming back #149
As tolerance for opposing views fades stop expecting others to meet you where you are. Set the tone for your own day. Choose to focus on what you can do…
 • Jack Browne
Living your resolutions by turning hope into action #148
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Resolutions need a plan. You can become who you want to be with a plan, discipline and accountability…
 • Jack Browne
Paying it Forward: You can’t go home again, but you can build what’s next #147
Oscar Wilde's 1940 book title rings true. Opportunity and hope spring forth in Wichita Falls. TIF #3 inputs rebuild after the 2007 flood. MLK…
 • Jack Browne
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