Category: Discipline

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Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance

Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance by Laura Vanderkam takes the position that no matter how busy we feel, most

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Your Life is the Sum of Your Choices… and Also of Your Evasions

When we are young, the paths before us may seem many… yet every choice we make contains constraints, the closing off of

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Your Body Does Most of the Talking

We all leak information all day long and we are often totally unaware of it. Scientists call this ‘involuntary signal emission’ which

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Perfecting Perfectionism

The best performers or positive perfectionists aim high and happily iterate away if they miss. Negative perfectionists aim high and are excessively

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You’re Only as Good as Your Worst Day

Okay, the above is a half-truth; catchy but imprecise. First off, it’s probably true in ‘high-stakes, irreversible (one-way door) situations’ where failure

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Ironically, the Path to Mastery lies in Being a Life-Long Student

The minute you are labeled an expert, the moment you allow that to become part of your identity, the insidious ‘Expert Trap’

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Your Reaction Does Not Need to Be Your Response

Your 1st reaction tends to be emotional, often driven by the ‘reptilian’ brain and defensive/protective in nature. An effective response goes to

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Avoiding Verschlimmbesserung

Verschlimmbesserung literally translates from German as ‘worsening improvement’ and speaks to trying to improve a situation but ending up making it worse.

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Chesterton’s Fence

Chesterton’s Fence refers to a decision principle: “Before removing an existing rule, structure, or practice, you must first understand why it was

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Sliding v. Deciding

Are you paying attention to your life? The difference between sliding v. deciding is usually awareness. Sliding is like being on a

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Sensemaking

We live in an ever more complex, chaotic world where the pace of change seems to be accelerating daily. How to make