Category: Motivation

A staircase of stacked wooden blocks rises from left to right, with letters on select blocks spelling “PROGRESS” diagonally upward against a simple light green background. The image symbolizes gradual improvement, growth, and step-by-step achievement.

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Embrace Iteration; Shun Perfectionism

The outcome of any decision is a product of the quality of the decision times the quality of the execution. A 10-quality

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Can You Summon Your Talent at Will?

“Can you summon your talent at will?” is a line Al Pacino delivers to Keanu Reeves in an iconic, windswept rooftop interview

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Identity is Destiny: Create One that Serves You

As much as anything else, I found my challenge in achieving my goals was far more ENERGY management than time management. All

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Finding Your Tennis Ball

If happiness/success is finding a goal or path that one follows with the unrestrained joy of a dog chasing a tennis ball,

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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