success

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10 Things the Most Successful People Are Always Doing

1. Planning their Lives, Working their Plan. Ordinary folks with a plan will go further than a genius without a plan. Most

back to the well

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Back to The Well

To go “Back to The Well” is to go back to the source of something valued, anything that nourishes you, replenishes your

overton window

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Understanding the Overton Window

The Overton window is the range of generally accepted, politically or socially, ideas in a culture or sub-culture. This window moves over

Bipartisan Agreement

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Junzi or Xiaoren: Which are you calling forth?

Junzi and xiaoren are two concepts from Confucianism and refer to two types of leaders. A junzi is one who puts the

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The Hard Thing a Leader Does Better Than Most

In hard times, in times of unusual risk or even potential danger, when things are in flux, when uncertainty lies all around,

from the heart

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Living from the Heart

Over a quarter of a century ago, a lovely little book was written carrying a kind and gentle message in parable form.

escaping the tunnel

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Escaping the Tunnel

Tunneling occurs when we are (or at least feel we are) overwhelmed. When folks get slammed with problems, they often enter the

problem blindness

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Problem Blindness

One obstacle with solving problems is when we can’t or won’t see the problem aka “problem blindness”. Problem blindness’s most common form

mentally strong

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Things Mentally Strong People Do

They Release Allowing the emotions of a situation or event to stay behind, to deliberately choose to NOT carry them forward with

A green sign with white letters that says "Demand Better. Expect More."

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When “Nice” Isn’t

“He may be too nice a guy to fix things via challenging others.” We’ve all seen it, the person who lets sub-optimal

keep calm

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Our True Measure

It is in times like these that life takes our “true measure”. In times of crisis, of peril, when the storms of

love yourself

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The Healthy Upside and Potential Downside of Amour Proper

Amour proper is French and means literally “self-love”. As a philosophical concept, it is found in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Blaise