emotional roller coaster

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The Provocative Power of Plateaus

Most of my life I’ve lived with mood swings. Bigger, wilder, and scarier in my youth, milder and moderated in my mature

personal narrative

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Your Personal Narrative: Friend or Foe?

Your Personal Narrative is your life story or more precisely, how you choose to interpret your life story: the story you tell

self control

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Making a Pact with Ulysses

Ulysses, the hero of the Greek legend “The Odyssey”, famously tied himself to his ship’s mast so as not to fall prey

procrastination

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Procrastination: Self Sabotage on Steroids

Of the many ways to avoid success, procrastination is one of the most effective. Procrastinators lie to themselves, telling themselves that they

start finish obstacles

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Mental Contrasting: A Motivational Secret

We usually think of motivation as being about Desire or Want Power or Will Power and all those are or can be

victim and rescuer

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The Games People Play: Trapped by Drama No More

To be able to “call” a mind game as it unfolds is the first step to being able to step outside the

decide commit focus succeed

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The Secret Key You Seek Is Hidden In Plain View

“Goal achievement is more about depth and strength and power of one’s desire than aught else. Laser intensity and long hours combined

second order thinking

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Are You Capable of Second Order Thinking?

First Order thinking is simplistic, short term, single move, single player, linear thinking i.e. the “thinking” level most stop at. Second Order

uncertainty

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Epistemological Humility

Epistemic means anything dealing with knowledge. Epistemic humility is: 1) Accepting that there will always be many things about which we are

ruinous empathy

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Ruinous Empathy v. Radical Candor

Ruinous Empathy is when you care but are unwilling to be honest/frank. We say to ourselves that we want to “spare the

day in and day out

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The Hard Thing About Milking Cows

The hard thing about milking cows is that they never stay milked. You gotta do it each and every day; no days

tattoo body mind

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Before Tattoo on the Body, Tattoo in the Mind

Norman Vincent Peale relates a story in his book, ‘Power of the Plus Factor’: While in Hong Kong, I came upon a