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The year is heading towards the finish line, and Uncommon Sense will be right there with you all the way! Competition has its place; it often brings the best out of us. But there may be one person you should be competing with that you may have overlooked. The Self-Development column spells it out. In […]

I don’t compete with others as a general rule. Instead, I compete against myself. As a young sales professional early in my career, I was given a sales quota of $600,000 for the year. Knowing the nature of the sales realities I was dealing with allowed for the possibility of closing business every week (as […]

From the Fringes to the Center The trans movement was hatched, then, on the fringes of American academia. But how did it move so quickly to the center of American public life? Like many other things, it began with a flood of cash, as some of the wealthiest people in the country began devoting enormous […]

Some of you are mildly aware that I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a fascinating organization and one that I treasure and am devoted to. The organization is also a curiosity due to the fact that in spite of all the good they do in the […]

It’s interesting to realize that the manner in which people communicate, the way in which they carry themselves, seems to have a great deal of pull. I am becoming more and more convinced that people who go into attack mode on Facebook, coming across as hyper-aggressive to the point of being obnoxious, may not actually […]

Building Your Power of Expression Vanguard, n. Pronunciation: ˈvanˌɡärd Meaning: In a military context, this word referenced the foremost part of an advancing army or naval force. It also is more commonly used in reference to a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas. In addition, it could be used to […]