Below is a story from an e-newsletter my wife and I receive from a restaurant where we enjoy eating breakfast. It's a completely unpretentious place with consistently delicious food and a delightful serving staff, located right across from the ocean here in San Diego. The article is about the manager's exasperation over an incident that recently occurred at the restaurant. As you're about to read, she describes how she and her staff handled an utter absence of everyday integrity on the part of a couple of restaurant patrons.

Are you dedicated to becoming the change you want to see in the world? Do you sometimes wonder whether enough people are passionate enough about doing this for change to come? If so, this five minute video might brighten your day and your outlook.

Listen as Dr. Gruder is interviewed by Dr. Michael Kell about the health care reform debacle on Dr. Kell's "Mind, Brain & Body with The Doctor" radio show! If you don't get to tune in live for this hour-long interview, listen to the recording, which should be posted on the link below approximately 24 hours after the interview.

On February 23, 2010, U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said, "You will not see from us [Republicans] a... comprehensive re-write of 1/6 of our economy."

While on the surface his statement appeals to the free market advocate in me, Senator McConnell's statement also contains a rather curious unexamined assumption: it's good that 17% of our economy depends on healthcare profits. If 1/6 of our economy is devoted to healthcare, is this something to be proud of, or is it a red flag?

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We live in a world that requires dialogue instead of competing polarized monologues. President Obama’s January 29th question-and-answer session with Republican leaders gave the public a remarkable window into the state of the United States and its governing process. I believe that this is the kind of dialogue we need a lot more of in the U.S. today.

Vitamin D deficiency kills more than one million people each year. Here are some author quotes from www.HealthBookSummaries.com about why maintaining proper Vitamin D levels is so important. I personally have blood tests at least once a year, and usually twice, to monitor my Vitamin D levels (and much more), since this is the only way to know whether to increase or decrease one's Vitamin D supplementation.

If you live in Southern California, please attend the following events at which I will be the lead trainer. I hope to see you there! (If you don't live in Southern California, please forward this to those you know who do! Or e-mail them an event flyer.)

• Nice guys don't finish last--they finish first
• Being a Green, eco-friendly business is *more* profitable
• Customers, suppliers, and even competitors can do a whole lot of your marketing for you

Do you believe in your heart that successful businesses can be Green and ethical? I certainly do! And part of the reason is a colleague of mine who I've mentioned before: Shel Horowitz. For years, Shel has been cheerfully spreading "heresies" like the three ideas above.