Category: Goal Setting

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

The quote is by the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019, Pulitzer Prize winner) and the elegant beauty of it always spoke volumes to

Steps of goal setting: set goal, make plan, get to work, stick to it, reach goal

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Practice is a Skill

Or more fully stated: ‘effective practice is a learnable skillset’. It may sound like heresy, but not all practice is good practice

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Will is a Skill

For many of us and for much of our lives we have absorbed the concept that willpower, along with its close cousin,

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Baker’s Dozen

Recently, I was asked: “What is the most valuable piece of advice you would give to anyone new at TCC who is

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Only the Best Obsess

Obsession has gotten a bad name in some circles but directed and managed, it is the gift of the gods. I think

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Elevate Your Identity

Your identity, your self-concept, is who you think you are, the story you tell yourself about yourself as well as the standards

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Build the Chain

We are so much the product of our habits. So how to form habits that take us where we want to go?

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You Are The Project

You are the most important project you will work on your entire life. Think of yourself as a work in progress; approach

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Plan Your Future in Advance

Hey, the future is going to come and if you want a better future, you’d best start doing something about it today.

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The Intolerable Cost of Myopic Perfectionism

Myopic Perfectionism: An excessive focus on a single topic to the exclusion of other important topics; an obsessive interest or preoccupation with

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Hoping to Match Up Against a Lazy Rabbit is Not a Plan

We all know the parable of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’ where the turtle beats the rabbit because the rabbit takes a