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What is your Ikigai?

Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes

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Try the Other Handle

“Every event has two handles—one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you

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Do You Ask Dirty Questions?

In this context, a Dirty Question is one that either: contains the biases and assumptions of the questioner or presupposes/directs the answer

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There has got to be a Morning After

We have all heard of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder); less is written about PTG: Post Traumatic Growth. PTG is the positive

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Be the Bee, Not the Fly

How you approach life powerfully impacts the life you experience. Do you stand outside yourself and observe how, in ways small and

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How Cognitively Fit Are You?

We think a lot about physical fitness; seems like there is a gym every 10 blocks. We care about emotional fitness as

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What We Need is a Bigger Hammer…NOT!

The ‘Bigger Hammer’ approach is simplistic thinking that blithefully assumes that more of the same, just increasing intensity or scale, will work.

"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."

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Difficulties in Telling Truth to Power… even when Power Wants to Listen

I recently managed to lose $12 million dollars in just over two years. Since the biggest mistake is the one you don’t

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What Do You Feed Daily?

Virtually everything in your life is there because in some way you participated in or acquiesced in its creation. It may not

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Seeing Souls Instead of Bodies

What if what folks saw was your soul, not your body? What would they think? How would you present? What would YOU

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The Fallacy of Projecting What Was onto What Is

The ability to fully release the past is a true superpower, one within the grasp of all. Who we were yesterday need

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The Most Important Class Ever: You 101

We spend much of our lives constructing mental cages that are invisible to us, dungeons of the mind that restrict and confine