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No “One Size Fits All” Rule Exists to Substitute for Critical Thinking Skills
My business is real estate, the ownership and management of apartments. At the highest conceptual level, the business is about creating value in the hearts…
December 30, 2014
Dan Pink & The Puzzle of Motivation: The science of human motivation; the dynamics of extrinsic motivators and intrinsic motivators.
www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation/transcript?language=en The following is a summary of Dan Pink’s TED talk and contains extensive quotes and paraphrasing: The THEORY of incentives is that if you want people to…
December 18, 2014
What are your Power Phrases?
Power Phrases are short, snappy, slogan-like sayings that you can use to keep yourself on track, to focus your energy, to quickly connect with your…
December 11, 2014
Are You a Waiter or a Grabber?
In the famous Marshmallow Test, 4 year olds were given the choice of instant gratification via immediate consumption of a marshmallow or waiting 15 minutes and…
December 9, 2014
Do You Suffer From Vergaderziekte?
Vergaderziekte is a Dutch word meaning “meeting sickness”. It is estimated businesses waste an average of 20% of their payroll on bad meetings, the equivalent to sending…
December 4, 2014
Why Affirmations Work
Affirmations work because properly done (present tense, positive, personalized), they bolster our self- concept— the collection of beliefs we hold about ourselves. Affirmations also can…
December 2, 2014
A Day of Thanks, Moments of Perspective
“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”…
November 27, 2014
Count Your Blessings: Make it Truly a Day of Thanksgiving
Want to cheer yourself up? Find energy on even the darkest days? Count your blessings! Enumerate all the things you have to be thankful for,…
November 26, 2014
Respectfully Speak Your Truth: Courage Pays
George Marshall (1880-1959) was US Army Chief of Staff during WWII and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s #1 military advisor. As America’s Secretary of State he lent…
November 25, 2014
Gold Stars Forever
What would it take for you to give yourself ‘Gold Stars Forever’? Notice I didn’t say “earn” or “get” Gold Stars Forever, I said “give…
November 18, 2014
Unleashing The Winner Within: Cliff Notes Version
You have GREATNESS within you; waiting for you to fully activate it. You want more, know you are capable of more, interested in being better,…
November 12, 2014