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8Fulfill Both People and Project

What does it mean to be fulfilled? Is delivering a project to specification, on time, and within budget an adequate definition? It’s not if our customer is unhappy. And what does it mean for each of us to be fulfilled in the midst of our overscheduled, warp speed, multitasking? Increasing our levels of power and speed may be the right criterion when shopping for a new computer, but is it really the standard by which we want to measure our lives? When was the last time we stopped and asked ourselves, “Where are we rushing to?”

When people must flee their homes in the face of an impending disaster, what do they take? What would we take? Maybe we’d grab the family photo album or some precious keepsake that could ...

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