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What are your Power Phrases?
Power Phrases are short, snappy, slogan-like sayings that you can use to keep yourself on track, to focus your energy, to quickly connect with your…
December 11, 2014
Are You a Waiter or a Grabber?
In the famous Marshmallow Test, 4 year olds were given the choice of instant gratification via immediate consumption of a marshmallow or waiting 15 minutes and…
December 9, 2014
Do You Suffer From Vergaderziekte?
Vergaderziekte is a Dutch word meaning “meeting sickness”. It is estimated businesses waste an average of 20% of their payroll on bad meetings, the equivalent to sending…
December 4, 2014
Why Affirmations Work
Affirmations work because properly done (present tense, positive, personalized), they bolster our self- concept— the collection of beliefs we hold about ourselves. Affirmations also can…
December 2, 2014
Gold Stars Forever
What would it take for you to give yourself ‘Gold Stars Forever’? Notice I didn’t say “earn” or “get” Gold Stars Forever, I said “give…
November 18, 2014
Thinking is a Skill: The Acquisition and Use of Critical Thinking Skills Turbo Charges Success
Simply because they have thoughts (i.e. words form) in their heads, most folks think they know how to think. But if you define thinking as…
November 6, 2014
Watering the Seeds of Happiness
Happiness is our natural state. Watch children. Most of the time, they are “Smile Factories”, endlessly delighted, pumping out smiles, eyes sparkling, full of joy…
October 28, 2014
Self Discipline: The Breakfast of Champions
This blog was originally posted May 28, 2013. dis·ci·pline (d s-pl n) n. 1. Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of…
October 23, 2014
When “Circling the Wagons” Makes Things Worse
I am proud to be a lawyer, a member of the Florida Bar. Yet I’ve noticed a tendency in my profession to defend any member…
October 16, 2014
The Seven Habits of Highly INEFFECTIVE People
As always, I share what I most want/need to learn. Sometimes it clarifies things to look at what we SHOULDN”T do; making it easier to…
October 14, 2014
Signs & Symptoms of Inner Peace
About 25 years ago, I read a lovely little book called “Love is Letting Go of Fear”. At just 130 pages or so (many of them illustrations!),…
September 30, 2014