Category: Personal Growth

6 post-it notes arranged in a star shape. A blue one says "growth mindset", a yellow one says "goal setting", a white one says "personal development", a pink one says "positive thinking", a green one says "good habits", and an orange one says "self discipline"

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Do You Have Akrasia?

Akrasia (ἀκρασία) is from Ancient Greece and refers to a “lack of self-control” or a tendency to “act against one’s better judgment.”

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Boldness is a Force Multiplier

Boldness opens doors that stay closed to the timid or tentative and converts possibility into reality, breaks the grip of fear. Boldness

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Your Life Is Your Delivery System

Every day you ship a product called You: your energy, clarity, focus, presence, and standards. The question becomes: how reliable is your

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Opening Minds; Side Stepping the ‘Backfire Effect’

If you want to change someone’s mind, their mind must be open to change and, as much as we humans like to

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I’m Willing to Work Poorly

Under certain circumstances, being willing to work poorly is NOT an acceptance of low standards, rather it is a willingness to be

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Want to Move Up? Cultivate this Powerful Skill

Upward empathy is the ability to fully understand those more powerful than you: authority figures, managers, bosses; anybody with more prestige, or

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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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Talked To Your Shadow Lately?

In Jungian psychology, our shadow is the unconscious parts of ourselves that we repress: weaknesses, fears, unacknowledged or unhealed wounds, desires we

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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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The Precious Gift of Noticing

When we actually see a person… not as a function, label, or bit player in a supporting role but as another human

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Peeling Back the Onion

Self-knowledge is a lifelong journey and the deeper we are willing to go, the greater the reward. To become truly self-aware requires