Category: Step by Step (Habit Creation)

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Consider Increasing Your Error Budget

We all understand, the more at bats opportunities you have, the more hits you can have. A major goal of increasing your

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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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Deliberate Ignorance aka The Ostrich Effect: Friend or Foe?

We live in an era of incredible access to… Information? Data? Misinformation? We are ceaselessly bombarded, messaged constantly… often with meaningless content

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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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The Allure of Pseudo-Problems

Pseudo-Problems are distractions or side issues to the real challenge, but they are often less frightening. Confronting the true Goliath before us

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Seeing Around Corners, Knowing the Future

Okay, the future is a story yet to be told, however, the better you are at ‘pattern recognition’, the stronger your anticipatory

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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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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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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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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