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Accepting Criticism Without Defending
“Why are you so defensive?” The question caught me by surprise because I did not think I was being defensive. Being a committed life-long learner,…
September 21, 2011
Gold Medal Performance: Smiling on the Balance Beam
Did you ever notice at Olympics gymnastics events the athletes beam big smiles as they do their routines? Do you think they feel like smiling?…
September 14, 2011
Back Seat Faith
Sometimes my wife drives and I sit in the back seat with our son. On rare occasion I am tempted to critique her driving: a…
September 7, 2011
Systemize Your Success
“Every activity contains a series of steps that must be completed correctly to be successful. Systemize your success. Identify the critical steps required to complete…
August 2, 2011
The Pros Make it Look Easy: On The Importance of Doing a Great Job AND Looking Great While You Do It
Did you ever notice how Olympic gymnasts often smile at key moments as they execute those difficult maneuvers? I sincerely doubt that it is because…
July 21, 2011
Live the Questions
To live the questions is to continually seek to expand the boundaries of your life, to push the edges of the envelope of what you…
June 29, 2011
Becoming a Self-Directed Learner: A Key to Super-Powered Living
Passive Learning Passive learning is where students sit inertly while a teacher gallantly attempts to capture and direct their attention, somehow forcing knowledge into submissive…
June 6, 2011
Lying About Your Vegetables
Most of us like to think we are good decision makers, that we have a firm grasp on reality, that we know the facts. Do…
May 19, 2011
Take a Deep Breath. Stretch.
Breathing is one of the most under-noticed, under-rated body functions. Yet there is a lot of power in controlling it. “Take a deep breath.” “Breathe…
May 17, 2011
Does Screaming Improve Behavior? An Error in Intuition
In the mid-1960s, Daniel Kahneman, a future Nobel Prize winner in 2002 for Economics, lectured to a group of Israeli air force flight instructors on…
May 3, 2011
Five Ways Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Success
Learn to Combine Skills: It is difficult to develop a world-class skill in one particular area but it’s relatively easy to learn how to decently…
April 25, 2011