Category: Energy

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Laziness is Real… and Occasionally Misdiagnosed

Gemini AI defined laziness ‘aka indolence or sloth, a disinclination to activity or exertion despite having the ability to act.’ Yet what

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Safety Has a Price

Let me begin by saying balance (Scott Peck’s 4th Tool of Discipline from ‘The Road Less Traveled’) applies here. I’ve chosen safety

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What Would You Do if Your Only Job Description was “Create Value”?

A philosophically oriented entrepreneur once opined that a universal job description could be ‘Find and Retain Profitable Customers’. Job descriptions are important,

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Want to be Popular? Learn This

Learn what? The ‘Big Baby Pivot’! Ok, I ‘stole’ this concept from ‘How to Talk to Anyone’. Someone is attending a reception

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That Wasn’t the Question

Sometimes, when motivation is on the low side, I pretend I’m hearing from someone else the excuses I’m hearing in my head:

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Be the Lighthouse

We all lose our way at times, adrift on the stormy seas of life, when the way is dark and the path

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Finding the Fire

Have you ever ‘lost that loving feeling?’ Days when you just couldn’t seem to find your rhythm? Life seemed a bit bleak

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You are Enough

You are enough. You have what it takes and if you don’t, you can sculpt yourself into what it takes or find

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If I want the Universe to be Generous with me, then…

If I want the Universe to be generous with me, then I must be generous to the Universe. Mostly this is a

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The Art of Lingering

I am by nature (and by now, choice) a task-oriented person. I’ve an efficiency/optimization mindset and an achievement mentality and in terms

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Life is Too Short

Life is too short to squander in strife. The longer I live, the more I’m willing to let bygones be bygones, to