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The Courage to Lead: I’m Still a Work in Progress, Always Will Be

For a long time I was reluctant to engage in certain forms of leadership. The straight business side, such as goal setting,

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Profound Change

Most highly-successfully people change profoundly over the course of their lives, endlessly developing and honing the qualities that permit them to first

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Meditating on the Move

Meditation has widely been shown to reduce stress, clear the mind, relax the body. Meditation obviously has many health benefits, both mental

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Small Secrets

I find that many people subscribe to some version of the “big secret” theory of life, also known by its variants “the

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Feedforward

Feedforward is in contrast to feedback. Feedback often focuses on what people have done wrong in the past. Thus it frequently engenders

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Cold Stoves: Learning the Right Lesson

It is said that a cat, once burned on a hot stove, never sits on a hot stove again. But the cat

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Spiritual Economics

In the physical world of material things, if you give something away you have less. Spiritual economics, however, is a very different

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No Question Poker

No Question Poker is when a learning opportunity is missed because someone doesn’t want to “look stupid” by asking a question. So

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Harriet Lerner’s “The Dance of Intimacy”

I began re-reading this old favorite the other day. “The Dance of Intimacy” deals with relationships and the patterns of distancing and

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The Big Forgive

Forgiveness has medicinal value. Anger and other stress-inducing emotions reduce life expectancy and increase risk of heart disease. After all, who can

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Never Major in Minor Things

The New York Times recently reported, “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the

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You Are Not Trapped

I do not normally re-post others’ blogs, but this post on conceptart.org forums by Jason Manley, President of Massive Black, Inc., is