what do you do when you do nothing

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What Do You Do When You Do Nothing?

The question is for real. It is not intended to be a koan.* “What do you do when you do nothing?” asks

regret minimalization

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Regret Minimalization

A friend who is in his fifties just made a significant career change. I was in for a surprise when I asked

all go same distance

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We All Go the Same Distance in Life…

We all go the same distance in life, it’s just that some of us go in circles. And if circles are what

what i learned from that

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What I Learned From That

Mistakes happen. I don’t like them. I aspire daily to excellence, to improvement, to ever higher levels. However, I acknowledge that daily

all actions teach

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All Actions Teach the Belief System That Motivates Them

So what did you teach today? I find this question a powerful behavior modifier. I take my responsibilities as a parent, a

who do you think you are

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Who Do You Think You Are?

“Who do you think you are?” is an idiom, an expression, a rhetorical question that is often used to confront someone we

can you summon talent

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Can You Summon Your Talent at Will?

In the movie, “Devil’s Advocate,” Al Pacino is the devil in human form attempting to tempt Keanu Reeves, both of whom play

blame-responsibility

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Blame No, Responsibility Yes

Blame is a close cousin to shame with a moral or ethical component, and should be reserved for situations where such elements

rationalize rational lies

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Rationalize = Rational Lies

Often our attempts to explain or analyze a failure to reach a goal devolve into rationalizations. And often those rationalizations are nothing

dream it do it

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Dream It, Do It

The power of positive visualization is one of the most effective techniques to maximize your potential, to turbo-charge your efforts. Aaron Rodgers

plans-planning

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Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable

I have a button that says “Spending my life in Plan B.” I think most of us have spent a lot of

forgiving thoughts gentle world

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Forgiving Thoughts = Gentle World

The other day I asked an accomplished associate what he was looking for in life that he had not yet achieved. I