A blue background with white text: "Your success is only limited by your own imagination and your hard work."

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Are You Ready for Luck?

The unsuccessful sometimes attribute the success of others to good luck. Balderdash! Luck, good and bad, comes to all. As the good

6 green apples in a line; 1 has a sticky note on it that says "bad"

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The Bad Apple Effect

I’m going to combine several of my favorite sayings: 1) ‘You tend to become the sum total of the 5 people you

The view of a city through a pair of glasses with the background in gray and the view through the lenses of the glasses is in color

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What Do You See?

There is the story of two folks looking out a window; one sees a muddy field, another sees the sun breaking through

"Words have power" written on a chalkboard. The "O" in "words" is a red heart

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Speaking Gently: Three Gates Plus a 4th

The great Sufi poet, Rumi, believed that before we speak, our words should pass through three gates: Is it true? Is it

A hand holding a small clock with sand slipping through the fingers into a pile of sand below

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Are You Watering Weeds?

We ‘water weeds’ when we waste our time/energy. Weeds come in many forms: Saying yes to the unimportant, to others’ priorities that

Two overlapping circles, one that says "things that matter" and one that says "things you can control". The area where they overlap is colored in and labeled as "what you should focus on"

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Not my Monkeys, not my Circus

Folks, in life you must pick your battles; allocate your time and energy in ways that are most effective and efficient. We

A green bamboo background with the words "To grow yourself, start from knowing yourself" in black print

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A Lie That Helped Me

How can a lie be helpful? Well, try this one on for size: ‘Personality’ is an illusion we invent. As I say/read

A sign with an arrow pointing to the left that says "old habits" and an arrow pointing to the right that says "change"

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Gut Check Truth

“Reading without application is just a form of wasting time.” I read that sentence in a TM’s email* and it was a

A small circle drawn on a chalkboard labeled as "your comfort zone" and a large circle next to it labeled as "where the magic happens"

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It Takes Courage but it Works!: Become a ‘Top-Level Asker’

All too often we ‘pre-reject’ ourselves by being fearful to approach others or ask for what we want. Often it involves those

Cartoon of 3/4 of a light bulb with a person holding the last 1/4 piece and the words "work hard but smart" written in the background

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It Sounds Dumb to Some but Actually it’s Super Smart

When deciding where to focus your energy, consider ‘choosing bigger problems’. Yep, you heard me: take on the biggest problem you can

4 red arrows going downward (one says "negativity", one says "critics", one says "doubt", and one says "fear") and one green arrow going upward that says "confidence"

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Your Own Worst Enemy

All too many of us are not fully on our own side. Ralph Marston once said “There are plenty of difficult obstacles

A notebook in which "speak less, listen more" is written in black ink and underlined in red ink

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The Power of Silence

Oh, how we love the sound of our own voice, and I plead as guilty as any and probably more so than