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ETB;IFWYE: A Major Key to Success
ETB;IFWYE stands for “Expect the Best, Inspect For What You Expect.” To succeed in our work life, we must get things done, accomplish tasks, complete…
December 22, 2015
Beware the Law of Triviality
The Law of Triviality is the tendency to give disproportionate weight to minor issues. It takes courage to face arduous and difficult tasks. In the…
December 8, 2015
The Toxic Choice
Judgment is a choice, the 3rd step of a usually unconscious “Observe, Evaluate, Judge” cycle. Aware can be good, Evaluate may or may not help…
December 3, 2015
Three Steps to Get What You Want
1) Make sure it is what you really, really want. Journal, observe yourself, know yourself. Why do you want this outcome? How do you expect…
November 24, 2015
Three Foot Rule
I recently had the opportunity to listen to Mark Owen, author of “No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin…
November 19, 2015
Greatness Comes at a Cost, Requires an Investment
There is greatness residing in you. However, greatness rarely emerges without a significant investment of time, energy, and emotion. Call it sacrifice, call it cost,…
November 10, 2015
Were You Born with Drive or Did it Develop?
A student asked me this variation on the old nature v. nurture question recently. The short answer is that drive rarely just “develops” on its…
October 29, 2015
Why You Failed and They Succeeded
Some say they will believe it when they see it; Truth is that you will never SEE it until you BELIEVE it i.e. you will…
October 15, 2015
Three Futile Strategies
We humans are often not comfortable dealing with troubling emotions. This most emphatically includes awareness around self-defeating patterns we are choosing to repeat. We frequently…
October 6, 2015
It’s Not Discipline…
It’s not discipline; it’s simply being smart about what we really want and being intelligent about how to really love and take care of ourselves.…
October 1, 2015
Stop Feeding the Monster
Many of us have or have had situations in our life that cause us despair or anguish. Sometimes they take the form of repetitive suffering…
September 29, 2015