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You Must Remember This
Your thoughts create your world. Change your mind, change your life. Thoughts held in mind attract in kind. As a man thinketh in his heart,…
July 11, 2013Few are Born Great
Few are born great. Most achieve greatness through unrelenting effort. Day in and day out persistence, practice, practice, practice, and yet even more perseverance. Case…
July 2, 2013Choose the Smile
David Murdock is Dole Pineapple’s CEO. And he is 90 years young. A 2010 Wall Street Journal picture shows him with a full-face smile, a…
June 20, 2013The Resilient Power of Creating an Oscillating Narrative with an Upward Trend
We all have a “life story” we tell ourselves, a way we interpret the world around us. It is part self-concept, part self-fulling prophecy. Families…
May 7, 2013The Happiness Advantage
What if EVERYTHING you thought you knew about how to be happy was flat out wrong? We tend to assume that our external world is…
April 30, 2013“The Power of Negative Thinking: An Unconventional Approach to Achieving Positive Results,” by Bobby Knight
Bobby Knight defines negative thinking as “recognizing, addressing, and removing obstacles to winning” and goes on to say that victory tends to go to “the…
April 18, 201316 Things Happy People Do Differently
1. Practice an “Attitude of Gratitude”: Happy people don’t have the best of everything rather, they make the best of everything. 2. Re-Frame problems as…
April 16, 2013Beware Fundamental Attribution Error
Humans tend to explain outcomes in terms of internal factors such as personality abilities as opposed to the external situation. When one basketball player shoots…
April 9, 2013How Would Others Rate Your Social Competence?
What is your social competence score? Your social competence is closely related to your EQ, or your emotional quotient. EQ is your ability to a. …
March 5, 2013“How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character”
“How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character,” by Paul Tough, a former editor at New York Times Magazine, focuses on the…
February 26, 2013Self Awareness: Super Achiever’s Secret
How do you react when you find an obstacle in your path? Do you focus on external reasons for failure? See outcomes as beyond your…
February 21, 2013