Count your blessings

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Lest we Forget… Our Blessings are Many

For all our troubles, we live in relative peace, prosperity, and safety. What follows is an excerpt from a GI’s memoir of

supervisor advisor

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Making the Leap: From Supervisor to Advisor

The common fallacy, usually unspoken but scrupulously adhered to nonetheless, is that someone is made a supervisor because of their “super” vision

crescendo

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Crescendo Living

Crescendo is a musical term for a passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity and in other context means

on stage

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Backstage Behaviors

“Back stage” and “front stage” are terms coined by the late (1922-1982) sociologist Erving Goffman in his 1959 book, “The Presentation of

believe you can

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It All Starts With A Belief

What is your belief? What is at your core? We all believe in something even if it is that there is nothing.

daily routine

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THE SECRET OF YOUR FUTURE IS HIDDEN IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. Think about it. What future are you creating when you are

no finish line

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There is no Finish Line

There is no finish line, only another day and another race. Yes, death awaits us all but I am speaking of the

connect heart and mind

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How to Build a Ship

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead,

night guy morning guy

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Night Guy v. Morning Guy

Night Guy v. Morning Guy by Jerry Seinfield I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, ’cause I’m Night

comfort zone, edge

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Coming up Against Our Edge

We all have “edges”, areas we do not go, areas we hold back from, areas we are not comfortable in, areas we

mediocrity

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The Five Deadly Traps of Mediocrity

Mediocre performers: Sap managers’ energy so they have less time for top performers Reduce quality of group discussions, lowering teams overall IQ

Picture of 3 check marks in an ascending diagonal line

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Three Must Do’s

1. Lock Down Your Why To be effective you must be motivated, enthused, and on a mission every day. This requires that