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Resilience 101: Consciously Building Your Coping Skills Before Life Tests You
In life, it is inevitable that we will have valleys we must walk, times of despair, defeat and discouragement. These journeys will be easier, these…
May 19, 2020
10 Things the Most Successful People Are Always Doing
1. Planning their Lives, Working their Plan. Ordinary folks with a plan will go further than a genius without a plan. Most folks go the…
May 14, 2020
Understanding the Overton Window
The Overton window is the range of generally accepted, politically or socially, ideas in a culture or sub-culture. This window moves over time: “Positions which…
May 7, 2020
Junzi or Xiaoren: Which are you calling forth?
Junzi and xiaoren are two concepts from Confucianism and refer to two types of leaders. A junzi is one who puts the people first, speaks…
May 5, 2020
The Hard Thing a Leader Does Better Than Most
In hard times, in times of unusual risk or even potential danger, when things are in flux, when uncertainty lies all around, people desperately need…
April 30, 2020
Escaping the Tunnel
Tunneling occurs when we are (or at least feel we are) overwhelmed. When folks get slammed with problems, they often enter the tunnel, adopting tunnel…
April 23, 2020
Things Mentally Strong People Do
They Release Allowing the emotions of a situation or event to stay behind, to deliberately choose to NOT carry them forward with you is incredibly…
April 14, 2020
Our True Measure
It is in times like these that life takes our “true measure”. In times of crisis, of peril, when the storms of life rage, when…
April 7, 2020
Beware Brittle Learning
“Brittle Learning” is superficial knowing; where you’ve memorized a few “lessons” but do not truly understand the underlying principles. The minute the environment changes (and…
March 24, 2020
Overlearning: Practice Beyond Perfect
Overlearning means learning more about a subject than the minimum necessary; also practicing a skill above and beyond achieving threshold mastery. The theory being that…
March 19, 2020
What Gift Are You Withholding?
“I’ve always wanted to….” We can all fill in the blank with some skill we have never developed, some dream we’ve never followed, some ability…
March 12, 2020