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Your Personal Narrative: Friend or Foe?
Your Personal Narrative is your life story or more precisely, how you choose to interpret your life story: the story you tell yourself about yourself…
August 6, 2019
Making a Pact with Ulysses
Ulysses, the hero of the Greek legend “The Odyssey”, famously tied himself to his ship’s mast so as not to fall prey to the tempting…
August 1, 2019
Procrastination: Self Sabotage on Steroids
Of the many ways to avoid success, procrastination is one of the most effective. Procrastinators lie to themselves, telling themselves that they will have the…
July 30, 2019
Mental Contrasting: A Motivational Secret
We usually think of motivation as being about Desire or Want Power or Will Power and all those are or can be significant components. But…
July 25, 2019
The Secret Key You Seek Is Hidden In Plain View
“Goal achievement is more about depth and strength and power of one’s desire than aught else. Laser intensity and long hours combined with openness to…
July 18, 2019
Are You Capable of Second Order Thinking?
First Order thinking is simplistic, short term, single move, single player, linear thinking i.e. the “thinking” level most stop at. Second Order thinking is much…
July 16, 2019
The Hard Thing About Milking Cows
The hard thing about milking cows is that they never stay milked. You gotta do it each and every day; no days off. Life and…
July 4, 2019
The Teacher is Always There
There is a Zen saying to the effect, “That When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Will Appear.” There is much truth to the saying…
June 25, 2019
Finding My Best Self
Sometimes I lose my best self; find myself distracted and drifting off course. Usually it is because I get busy, then wake up to find…
June 13, 2019
The Simple Secret to Self-Control
When we see someone who seems to have it all together, who exhibits good habits and good self-control, we tend to attribute it to good…
May 28, 2019
One Bad Apple
Best of the Rest – I don’t often run others work but this is good: Imagine the case of someone supervising an exceptional team of…
May 23, 2019