Author: Nathan S. Collier

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Ask What You Can Do

During his inaugural speech on January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy famously said: “Ask not what your country can do for you-

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Run Straight at the Pain and You will Develop Superpowers

I’m not talking about physical pain so much as I am about emotional/social pain i.e. the ‘pain’ of self-discipline, the ‘pain’ of

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Build the Chain

We are so much the product of our habits. So how to form habits that take us where we want to go?

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You Are The Project

You are the most important project you will work on your entire life. Think of yourself as a work in progress; approach

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Plan Your Future in Advance

Hey, the future is going to come and if you want a better future, you’d best start doing something about it today.

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Could it be Me?

Sometimes we don’t make the progress we would like in life or maybe not as fast as we would like. As we

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You are the Creator

I am continually amazed at the extent to which our belief systems create our life. Whether we realize it or not, at

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Beware of Intellectualizing Your Emotions

“Intellectualizing emotions is a defense mechanism that serves as a shield against the overwhelming intensity of feelings. It’s the process of suppressing

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You Can Not Lead People if You Need People

But didn’t Barbara Streisand sing ‘People who need people are the luckiest people in the world’? Okay, the title is a deliberate

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5 Ways to Give Feedback Better, 21 Soft Ways to Say Hard Things

Note: The following is 90% from a 2018 Blog by Claire Lew, CEO of Know Your Team (http://knowyourteam.com). “My life’s mission is

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The Intolerable Cost of Myopic Perfectionism

Myopic Perfectionism: An excessive focus on a single topic to the exclusion of other important topics; an obsessive interest or preoccupation with