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Who Runs You?
The reflexive answer is “I do, of course!” But do you really? How much of our behavior is unthinking, unanalyzed routine? Goalless habit? Or simply…
How Good is Your Doorman?
Every day, every moment, we are bombarded with a tsunami of impressions and potential inputs into our consciousness. What we choose, and we DO have…
I Told My Team
Recently a situation requiring sensitivity and finesse, was not handled thus even though we had recently covered the topic with our middle managers. When it…
Tired of Pretty Words, Can I Just Have Accountability?
In business, I’ve heard a lot of pretty words over the years. Promises and commitments. Sincerely spoken by earnest folk who intended every word. Unfortunately,…
Building Power in the Plateau
In every life, at some point of time, for some period of time, one’s motivation may fade, focus may blur, your drive gets stuck in…
Two Traits I Yearn to Find
First, high internal standards, motivation that springs bountifully unbidden from within, drive for excellence that wells up without having to summoned. Second, the willingness to…
Success Scares Me
Why do I find success scary? Because right behind success comes overconfidence. Call it what you will: resting on your laurels, calling it in instead…
Greatness is a Grind
By ‘grind’ I mean achieving (and maintaining) greatness is long, hard slog, a relentless repetition of the basics, day in and day out, a never-ending…
Four Mindsets You Are Better Off Without
Desire for constant comfort and ease. Ok, this is one of mine. Life is often messy and inconvenient, stuff happens. Doesn’t mean I have to…
An Act of Far Greater Power
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than hanging on or defending.” – Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth: Awakening to Your…
Have You Entered the Cave Lately?
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell That which we most fear, that which scares us greatly also…
Success is Dangerous
Success carries its own set of pitfalls, chief among them over-confidence. Success tends to breed contented self-satisfaction, a belief that you got it all covered,…
There are No Secrets to Success
There are no secrets to success… or to happiness; just stuff you don’t want to do! Particularly over and over and over again! The ‘stuff’…
Boring, Boring, Boring
What gets a triple boring headline? The Path to Success. Yep, you heard me right: the pathway to the mountaintop is full of ordinary routine,…
What is Your Creed? Here is Mine.
Creed: Guiding principles; a set of beliefs, principles, or opinions that strongly influence the way people live. My creed is pretty simple really, basically a small…
Life is a Teacher, Every Day is a New Class
When I choose to think of life as one big classroom, it helps me to be less reactive, to take events less personally, to not…
The Key that Opens Doors
Like many, at times in my life I’ve struggled with the concept of discipline. I mean ‘Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order.’ Does that…
Den of Lions
Nigh on 30 years ago I read the Den of Lions by Terry Anderson, the journalist who was kidnapped by Shiite militants in Beirut, Lebanon…
Passing Trees
After having read it years ago, I am now listening to Micky Singer’s ‘Untethered Soul’ on Audible in my car. Micky uses the analogy of…
Pressure is a Privilege
What does “pressure is a privilege” mean? Yes, it is a post-game quote from Novak Djokovic and the title of Billy Jean King’s memoir but…
Top 25% is the Top 1%
Everyone on Wall Street wants to be the “Alpha Dog”, the best of the best, top of the heap, the Top 1%. Well, I want…
The Easiest and yet the Hardest Thing
Rome was not built in a day and many an “overnight” success was decades in the making. We all have the same 24 hours; it…
How Vibrant is Your Prohairesis?
Prohairesis is Greek and translates as “choice”, “will”, or “volition” and was a favored topic of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus (50 – 135 AD). Essentially,…
Can You “See the Work”?
To “see the work” means can you see what needs to be done without being told. It further means do you have the ability to…
You Already Know the Secret
The secret to success, the secret to life… is that there is NO secret. Or at least not one “big” secret; merely dozens, hundreds of…
How Strong is Your Wille zum Leben?
“Wille zum Leben” is German for “will to live” and in modern psychology, the “will to live” generally refers both to humans’ basic survival instinct…