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The Unique Power of Anti-Goals

Sometimes knowing what we don’t want can be as motivational as knowing what we want. Fear is a powerful driving force as

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The Advantages of Adversity

I’ve frequently said that I’d had the “good fortune to experience a period of poverty and chaos in my childhood” because it

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Tell Me About Your Eyeglass, Please

Imagine there sits on top of your dresser two sets of eyeglasses. One has green colored lenses, the other red. Which one

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Want to be Popular? Learn This

Learn what? The ‘Big Baby Pivot’! Ok, I ‘stole’ this concept from ‘How to Talk to Anyone’. Someone is attending a reception

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The Superpower of High Achievers

Want to be more, do more, go further, get more accomplished with the same if not less effort? Get ORGANIZED! Structure is

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That Wasn’t the Question

Sometimes, when motivation is on the low side, I pretend I’m hearing from someone else the excuses I’m hearing in my head:

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Are You A Drifter?

I’ve this theory we all go the same distance in life or at least have the potential to do so. Thing is,

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The Goal of Your Goal Is?

We can get so wrapped up in pursuit of a goal that we lose sight of the underlying why or purpose. In

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Help is But a Thought Away

Okay, it is a bit more complex than that but the thoughts you dwell on are the building blocks of the life

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The Greatest Opponent You Will Ever Face

Go find a mirror. The person you see in that mirror can either be your best ally, strongest advocate, your outstanding champion,

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Be the Lighthouse

We all lose our way at times, adrift on the stormy seas of life, when the way is dark and the path

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Finding the Fire

Have you ever ‘lost that loving feeling?’ Days when you just couldn’t seem to find your rhythm? Life seemed a bit bleak