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Top 25% is the Top 1%

Everyone on Wall Street wants to be the “Alpha Dog”, the best of the best, top of the heap, the Top 1%.

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The Easiest and yet the Hardest Thing

Rome was not built in a day and many an “overnight” success was decades in the making. We all have the same

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How Vibrant is Your Prohairesis?

Prohairesis is Greek and translates as “choice”, “will”, or “volition” and was a favored topic of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus (50 –

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Oh, How I Love the Balcony!

It is SO easy to get caught up in the drama of life, to let emotions hijack your day. A technique I’ve

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How Strong is Your Soul?

Like most everything else, your soul is only as strong as it is nurtured. The adage “Energy flows where focus goes” is

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Can You “See the Work”?

To “see the work” means can you see what needs to be done without being told. It further means do you have

spiritual intelligence

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I’m Busy Now; Maybe Later

We humans tend to have this incessant inner dialogue going on inside our heads; an endless chatterbox. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes the

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You Already Know the Secret

The secret to success, the secret to life… is that there is NO secret. Or at least not one “big” secret; merely

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How Strong is Your Wille zum Leben?

“Wille zum Leben” is German for “will to live” and in modern psychology, the “will to live” generally refers both to humans’

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The Upside of a Little Bit of Financial Paranoia

I experienced a period of poverty in my youth and it was one of the best things that ever happened to me,

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Daily Questions: Road Signs to Your Best Self, Your Best Life

Daily questions are an awesome way to focus your energy, to remain on path, to stay true to yourself. Zig Ziglar used

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4 Things to Release to Create Your Best Life

#1 Release Obsession with Possessions: Once beyond that basic level of Maslow’s hierarchy (a roof over our heads that doesn’t leak, reasonably