Do you know how to bring out the best in others?
All effective leaders do this. Loving parents find a way to do it even when kids are serving up their ugliest side. Even your spouse who wants to stay married
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Understand Your X Factor
You know those deep desires and urges within you that you couldn’t change even if you wanted to? I’m talking about those inner forces that seem to drive you from
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Guard Rails for Your “Just Right” Life
What if Goldilocks were a teenager, just learning to drive? What’s more, she’s your daughter. Like many of us whose kids are fast approaching driving age, you would eventually have
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Take Care of Your Decision Maker
Can you trust yourself to make good decisions? Talk about a loaded question! Ever been tempted to just let Magic 8 Ball make the call? Just say no… unless it’s
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Know When Your Inner Autopilot Needs a Course Correction
Last week, we were talking about getting more from your time by asking this simple question: Is there a difference between where you want to go and where you’re actually
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Want more from your time?
Want more from your time? For all of you with inbox OVERWHELM, workplace BURNOUT, or out-of-school DECISION FATIGUE, here’s a simple step you can take today to get more from
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Go for More than a “Paint-by-Number” Summer
School is out! And for those of you whose daily life instantly changes due to this fact, congratulations! The “Gauntlet of Exhausting Awesomeness” (i.e., recitals, graduations, tournaments, parties, etc.) is
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Everybody Needs Somebody Sometime
While each of us needs help at some time in our lives (and if we’ll admit it, we need it often) for a variety of reasons, we find it very
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Your Emotions and the Magic Question
This week, we’re wrapping up the book study on becoming Intelligently Emotional. Even though the study may be coming to a close, the process (for most of us) is an
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Heard about the butterfly effect of emotional control?
Emotions are forces that drive us to either become our best or display our very worst. But how does that work? It turns out that it happens one emotional choice
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Who’s in emotional control here ?
Do you conduct a post mortem analysis every time you believe a relationship has gone wrong? It’s a pretty common thing to do if you’re feeling hurt. It can haunt
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Did you know that your most powerful emotions are custom-made, by you?
Why can’t general cookie-cutter advice about self-control (a.k.a. emotional control) work for every person? And why do some people always seem so calm and collected in the face of conflict?
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