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In Praise of Disappointment

The ability to handle disappointment is one of the more valuable life management skills. The capacity to take disappoint in stride and

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Habits: A Liberating Perspective

“First we make our habits, and then our habits make us.” ~ Charles C. Noble “Could the young but realize how soon

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We Change When We Want To

We change when we want to. The catalyst can be whatever we want it to be. I’m fascinated by human beings, what

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Reframing Revisted

A while back I wrote about reframing, the technique of choosing to look at something in a positive light, in a way

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Training Shamu: Lessons for Humans

Amy Sutherland has written a short, amusing book called “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People From

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The Drunkard’s Walk and The Law of Small Numbers

“The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives” is a fascinating book on probability by Leonard Mlodinow (with a nice cover blurb

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One Thing Boldly Different Every Day

Lord, I love my routines! I eat at the same place almost every morning. The people there know me and greet me

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18 Simple Ways to make a Habit

Along the lines of finding new ways of being and behaving, here is some excellent and concise how-to advice on creating new

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We see the world as we are. We see the world as we expect to see.

Our expectations, our outlook on life, our personal norms, powerfully impact the world we see. This theme of self-fulfilling prophecy is one

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Expect the best; Inspect for what you expect.

You do not get what you expect, you get what you inspect. What gets measured gets done. What you choose to inspect

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Do not block the many because of the few

For the most part, I am blessed with excellent team members, associates, and partners. Their creativity, innovation, resourcefulness, and imagination are wonderful

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If there is nothing to do, do nothing.

One wintery day almost a decade and half ago, I was walking along the frozen Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, having a