Category: Personal Growth

A red-haired woman in a gray blazer gestures while speaking with two colleagues in a warmly lit office, suggesting a friendly and engaging professional conversation.

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Got Your Midashinami Act Together?

Midashinami is a Japanese word involving two ideas related to personal appearance and presentation: Body, self, or person Cultivated habits, refined manners,

Four people celebrate positivity and appreciation, holding oversized symbols of happiness, love, support, and recognition (hearts, smiley faces, thumbs up)

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Be a Source of Support for Others, Cultivate Cheer and a Fountain of Positive Gossip

Far more than we realize, we create the world we experience. The places we go, the people we choose to spend time

Silhouette of human head with lightbulb inside and books around in flat design. Wisdom and knowledge concept.

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What a Book Can’t Tell You, What You Can’t Learn in a Classroom

We are talking about Tacit Knowledge: intuitive, unwritten ‘know-how’ acquired by personal experience, practice, and trial-and-error. The unwritten rules, implicit problem-solving methods,

A businessman struggles against fierce wind and rain while holding onto a battered umbrella, symbolizing adversity and perseverance.

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Head Winds People, Tail Winds People

Most anyone can look good with a tail wind; it’s when you are facing head winds that you find out who has

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Map of Consciousness: Can You Locate Yourself?

David R. Hawkins (1927-2012) in ‘Power vs. Force’ put forth a hierarchal Map of Human Consciousness starting with lower-level emotions such as

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The Oak Sleeps in the Acorn. How is Your Oak Doing?

I believe in people and that often tremendous ability slumbers deep within. Most of us have undeveloped powers and potential that we

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Always Seeking the Next Mountain

None of us were put on this Earth to be ordinary. Each of us has a unique gift to discover, hone and

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Smart Tops Intelligent, Wise is Best of All… and if You are Willing to do the Work, You Can Learn Smart

Okay, let’s acknowledge upfront this can quickly get deep into semantics so stay with me and put aside that debate for a

Flat illustration of a businessman inside an open head using a net to catch flying lightbulbs with wings

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10 Ideas We Accept Too Readily

Without being fully aware of the process, we have absorbed norms from the world around us; unquestioningly inheriting assumptions from family, class,

Colorful paper notes with the phrase BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOU

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How Good do We Have to Be?

I find myself asking myself this question often these days and usually in a role specific context. Personally? As good a dad

Stacked stones labeled “Work,” “Life,” and “Balance,” symbolizing the challenge of maintaining work-life balance.

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Work & Life: Finding the Sweet Spot

Inherent in the phrase ‘work life balance’ is the implication that they are somehow at odds, that one comes at the cost