Author: Nathan S. Collier

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Your Brain Needs Reps Too!

Repetition is powerful. Reps are wonderful in the gym for strength training… AND for creating habits. Think of your brain as just

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Identity is Destiny: Create One that Serves You

As much as anything else, I found my challenge in achieving my goals was far more ENERGY management than time management. All

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Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance

Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance by Laura Vanderkam takes the position that no matter how busy we feel, most

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Your Life is the Sum of Your Choices… and Also of Your Evasions

When we are young, the paths before us may seem many… yet every choice we make contains constraints, the closing off of

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Your Body Does Most of the Talking

We all leak information all day long and we are often totally unaware of it. Scientists call this ‘involuntary signal emission’ which

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Perfecting Perfectionism

The best performers or positive perfectionists aim high and happily iterate away if they miss. Negative perfectionists aim high and are excessively

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You’re Only as Good as Your Worst Day

Okay, the above is a half-truth; catchy but imprecise. First off, it’s probably true in ‘high-stakes, irreversible (one-way door) situations’ where failure

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Filling the 7 Buckets of Your Waterwheel

One way to approach living your life or achieving any form of success is to think of yourself as having 7 buckets

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Ironically, the Path to Mastery lies in Being a Life-Long Student

The minute you are labeled an expert, the moment you allow that to become part of your identity, the insidious ‘Expert Trap’

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Falling Down Well

Falling well is the ability to absorb a setback without shattering, to fail gracefully, to catch oneself mid-fall (emotionally, mentally, practically) and

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Finding Your Tennis Ball

If happiness/success is finding a goal or path that one follows with the unrestrained joy of a dog chasing a tennis ball,