Did you know that you’re full of beliefs that you can’t prove? Just think about how often you step on a plane and fly suspended by unseen forces for hours. Or consider how you believe in the presence of electricity even though you can’t touch it. You must have faith
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What do you find more challenging? Is guiding a colleague or resolving conflict at work any easier for you than working with your own family at home? Your co-workers typically don’t experience “You, the Home Version,” do they? The work version of you has chosen to adhere to standards of
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It’s easy to get sidetracked when an emotionally charged situation at work brings out someone’s worst, right? It happens once and you find a way to reason your way out of the muddy pit of negative they’ve created. “They must be having a really bad day,” you say. It happens
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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 to you finds a way to do this important thing for you in hard times. What about you? Do you
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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 the inside out. Those are your X Factor. For example, the need to make plans and decisions lightning fast. Perhaps
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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 to let her get in a car… by herself. Shed actually get to drive away, without you, into the big
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Goldilocks was onto something. We’ve been talking about course corrections in our lives and how they can be accomplished with the right use of some very sophisticated controls called inner strengths. These strengths are not just some catch phrase to describe the skills we acquire or good habits we adopt.
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Have you ever taken your course corrections in life a little too far? I’m talking about those times where you see an alarming difference between where you’re headed and where you really want to go. But in attempting to make a change, you don’t go far enough, or you go
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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 about an ice cream flavor. I don’t know about you, but my honest answer to this seems dependent on the
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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 going? But now, it’s time for me to come clean. The question is easy to ask. But the answer can
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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 your time. It doesn’t require you to read, watch or listen to hours of incredible wisdom from accomplished, happy thought
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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 now complete and a new season begins. Have you already created a plan full of clever ways to keep yourself
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