Category: Motivation

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Bar Raising Behavior

Who do you spend your time with? Do they encourage you, inspire you, lift you, challenge you, believe in you? Do they

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Invitation to a VERY Special Event

The invitation is to ‘Your Future’ aka ‘Tomorrow’ and you receive it every dawn. What you do with it is up to

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Comfort is a Seductive Adversary

Just as one must strain and push one’s muscles to the limit to grow stronger, so too must you press your mind

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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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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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Next Action Step?

“Next Action Step?” is my favorite way to end a meeting or conversation. A decision without a plan to implement is just

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The Unique Power of Anti-Goals

Sometimes knowing what we don’t want can be as motivational as knowing what we want. Fear is a powerful driving force as

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The Advantages of Adversity

I’ve frequently said that I’d had the “good fortune to experience a period of poverty and chaos in my childhood” because it

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The Superpower of High Achievers

Want to be more, do more, go further, get more accomplished with the same if not less effort? Get ORGANIZED! Structure is

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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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Are You A Drifter?

I’ve this theory we all go the same distance in life or at least have the potential to do so. Thing is,