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Do You Experience Goal-incongruent Emotions?

Negative emotions such as doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, despair, guilt, or shame all weaken us, detract from our focus, sap our energy

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Your Thoughts Create

What are you creating? What do you choose to observe? What thoughts do you choose? What identity do you don? What mood,

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How Many You’s Make Up You? Which You Do You Answer To?

We all have many sides, many selves within us; conflicting wishes, drives, and emotions, making the old quote ‘To thy own self

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Inner Scorecard or Outer Scorecard?

Inner success or outer success? Which matters most to you? Where did your values and beliefs come from? Truly yours, the result

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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