Did you know every healthy choice you make starts with your use of inner strength? Setting trivial choices aside (like coffee preferences, shoe color, or toothpaste brand), let’s break down the anatomy of good choices and, more importantly, how meaningful choices with lasting consequences all start the same way. They
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Do you make your way through life with a fierce determination to meet your goals? Are you often identified as having an intense focus or an unbending will to accomplish important tasks? These are great ways to describe a “strong-will” during a performance review at work…when it’s working for you.
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Are you naturally careful and thoughtful in your approach? Or do you tend to throw caution to the wind? Regardless of your answer, a cautious approach supports moving forward without all the obstacles from an ill-conceived plan. In fact, some of the bravest heroes in history were careful planners. If
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Does optimism seem like a natural choice for you to make? Or do you have to work hard to keep disappointments and potential negative outcomes from drowning out your positive expectations? There’s little doubt that your choice to be optimistic can serve you well in any situation. And it is
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What do terms like “mindfulness,” “synergy,” “storytelling,” “intrapreneur,” and “return on relationship” all have in common? I mean besides sharing a spot in the top 5 workplace buzzwords sometime over the last 3 years. With some friendly modification, they could just as easily be used in your home or around the dinner
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How often do you purposely spend time working toward a goal you set ? If you’re thinking “Right now, I’m working toward getting my kids to school (dressed appropriately) and then getting myself to work (on time) and then showing up to that program tonight (without excess traffic, homework or
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Have you ever been your own worst enemy? Each of us certainly can be when one of our greatest assets is being “mismanaged.” We each have native inner strengths. But, there’s usually one strength that seems to contribute most to your reputation and notoriety. Is this contribution positive or negative? It’s
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Do you have a reputation for taking on hard things? Do you want to be known for that? Everyone has their opinion about what makes a task, a project or a paradigm shift “hard” to accomplish. We’ve all come across many lists of hard things worth doing. They all have
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Plato told us the key to building successful teams. How do we build a team that works and performs to its potential? Plato gave us the key to building successful teams some 2,300 years ago: Have each person work, exercising their native inner strengths (the core urges that shape their
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