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Four Ways to Spend Money

The late Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel Prize winner for Economics, on the four ways you can spend money: 1) “You can spend

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Order, Yes. Bureaucracy, No!

Order is a process that effectively and efficiently allows you to scale up to a higher level. Bureaucracy is a process that

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A Plug For Contentment

I think of contentment as the stepsister of happiness. If happiness is the swan, contentment is the ugly duckling. Everyone is pursuing

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An Entrepreneur’s Questions

Entrepreneurs are forever challenging convention, querying the need for the status quo, asking – Why are things done the way they are?

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Selling Sizzling Steak: Performance Plus Promotion

Doing the job right is the “steak.” Looking good while you do it is the “sizzle.” There was a time in my

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When Should You Lie to Yourself?

I’m purposely being dramatic, using the shock of lying to get your attention. But also I am being literally truthful because I’m

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Lying About Your Vegetables

Most of us like to think we are good decision makers, that we have a firm grasp on reality, that we know

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Benefits of Part-Time Optimism

What is “part-time” optimism? It is a variation on realistic optimism, the concept that while optimism is generally beneficial there are definitely

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Take a Deep Breath. Stretch.

Breathing is one of the most under-noticed, under-rated body functions. Yet there is a lot of power in controlling it. “Take a

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What is Your Coping Mechanism?

How do you handle stress? What do you do when it all piles up and you need to relax, kick back, escape,

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No Individual Raindrop Takes Responsibility But the Flood Still Happens

Occasionally I hear someone lambasting politicians for pandering* to the masses in order to be re-elected, or bemoaning the lack of community

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False Gods: Worshiping Numbers

We live in a society where we are inundated with data, where numbers and statistics are thrown at us constantly. In part