Insightful Challenges from ...

Astrological Forecasts

(LA Times, February 9, 2006) Cancer (June 22 – July 22) –
Here comes a challenge ... but this is only a test to show how much you have grown up. You’re a good problem solver and can understand the benefit of taking the high road.

(Yogi Times, February 2006) Taurus (April 21 – May 21) –
If anyone could use a day at the spa, it’s you. Figuring out to juggle home vs. work demands is still a challenge. Because there is so much that is up in the air in your environment right now, being unclear about where you fit in might actually turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Try re-inventing yourself.

Television Shows

“He’s not going to like having his opinions challenged.”
(Law & Order)

“The State doesn’t challenge your right to jump out of an airplane, except while sharing this act with your 2-year old child.”
(Judging Amy)

Magazines

Alain Bouchard is gobbling up U.S. convenience stores and challenging market leader 7-Eleven. One new twist: Stay a bit. The convenience store trade is getting a makeover. Industry leader 7-Eleven is now under full Japanese ownership. The sector is consolidating with the top 10 players owning 20% of the 138,000 U.S. store total. The new concept is to make the store a destination and entice customers to ‘Stay A While’.
- (Forbes – February 13, 2006)

The challenges facing Studio City with regard to development represents a very serious dilemma facing the entire city, and that is: How to balance and plan for our city’s inevitable growth while we protect the character of our communities and single family neighborhoods.
- (Studio City Lifestyle Magazine – February 2006)

Of course there are a lot of big challenges, but therein lies an even greater change for us to use our emotional response to this disaster in the most constructive way.
- (Oprah – November 2005)

THE CHALLENGER: Python! vs. Gator!
For centuries, gators have reigned as the supreme reptilian carnivore in the Florida Everglades. Pythons released into the Everglades by disenchanted pet owners are thriving. Some grow in excess of 12 feet long and are strong enough to crush a wild hog and swallow it whole. Scientists have documented four battles between large pythons and native alligators in the last 3 years, the latest one coming this past fall, when a 13-foot Burmese python was found blown open after it swallowed a 6-foot gator whole. Both animals died.
- (Newsweek – February 2006)

“It became a challenge for all of us. We all want the prison to win.”
- Priscila Maria Pereira Ferreira, one of four inmates ata penitentiary near Sao Paulo who competed in Brazil’s government-sanctioned, 10-prison Miss Penitenciaria Beauty Pageant

Courage is that rare moment of unity between conscience, fear and action, when something deep within us strikes the flint of love, of honor, of duty, to make the spark that fires our resolve. Courage is the highest quality of life attainable by human beings. It’s the moment when we are our complete, best self, when we know with an almost metaphysical certainty we are right ... and actually rise to the challenge.
-(FAST COMPANY – December 2005)

“It’s hard to overstate the challenge this poses to the status quo.”
- (FAST COMPANY – December 2005)