Category: Motivation

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Mind-forg’d Manacles

The phrase ‘mind-forg’d manacles’ comes from the poem ‘London’ by romantic author William Blake, written in 1794. Over 200 years ago, Blake

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The Phrase That Energizes and Empowers!

So often one hears “I have to…” as in “I have to deal with this situation before it blows up…” or “I

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Get Momentum on Your Side: Situational Scaffolding

Situational Scaffolding is changing the conditions around you to make success more likely. It’s making what you want to do easier to

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Creating Change That Lasts Throughout the New Year

The life expectancy of most New Year’s Resolutions can be measured at best in days, some even mere hours. So how to

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To Outplay the Field, You Must Outlearn the Field

Just as failure is rarely the result of a single cause, so too is success dependent upon good outcomes, often small ones,

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First Room on the Right

There was a point early in my life when I knew I had internal issues I needed to face, that I had

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All too Many Never PiP

Oh, we humans! We are not thinking creatures with emotions, we are emotional beings who (occasionally) think. One result is that we

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Nothing can be Everything

We court trouble when we ask any one thing to be our everything—one job to give meaning, one person to make us

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Life is a Team Sport

Arnold Schwarzenegger was introduced as a ‘self-made’ man, a label he rejected and stated that he had the help of hundreds, if

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Resilience is a Learnable Skill Set

Folks, I do my best to plan ahead, to live smart and avoid dumb, to sidestep as many of life’s pitfalls and

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Which Do You Believe in Most: The Goal? Or the Obstacle?

What we focus on expands, thoughts held in mind attract in kind, and energy flows where attention goes. Where are your thoughts