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Quick Status Check
2012 is half way over. How’s your year going? Are you where you need to be at this mid-year point? Are you on track with your goals for 2012? What?! You don’t have any goals?! No sweat. Most...
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The Deadly “Third Rail”
I was waiting for the “el” train Saturday morning on my way to the office. It was a beautiful, sunny morning. On the elevated tracks were some employees of the railway doing some repairs. I watched...
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Emotional Leadership and The Power of a Calm Mind
With a conference table full of high energy, hard-charging Type A personalities, Joe was feeling his head start to swim. He was losing his ability to focus, and his mind was quickly going...
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What Monkeys And Nuts Have To Do With Your Success
We all see the wisdom in creating momentum, moving forward, and making progress in life. Yet, there are various ways we trip over ourselves and get in the way of our own advancement. One of the things...
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3 Pair of Dream-Killing Words: Pair #1
Words are important. They convey ideas, beliefs, and emotion. Words carry the messages of our heart. They’re how we most directly express what’s inside of us. Words are potentially the most powerful...
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3 Pair of Dream-Killing Words: Pair #2
The second pair of dream-killing words we want to look at today is as equally troublesome as the first pair from a few days ago. Have you been defusing those pesky What-If’s? Consider the second pair:...
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3 Pair of Dream-Killing Words: Pair #3
We come now to our third and final dream-killing pair of words. To review, first we looked at What If, and saw how and why this slows us down and sabotages our progress. Next, we looked at If Only, and...
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Don’t Be A Phone Book
Arriving home at the end of a long day, I encountered that annoying site once again. Outside my front gate, in a plain white plastic bag, were more free phone books. Every couple of months, these...
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What Fruit Is Hanging From YOUR Branches?
“You will know them by their fruits”. 50 bonus points if you know who said that. If you guessed Jesus of Nazareth, you are correct. You don’t need to be a follower of Jesus to engage with this idea....
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Don’t Drop Your Sword–Embracing A Warrior Spirit
How do we progress? How do we move forward? How do we advance our agenda? How do we hit our targets, reach our goals, and live our vision? Obviously many things are necessary to do these things. One...
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Comfort Zone
My lovely wife and I recently stayed in a hotel for a brief getaway. The handwritten note scrawled in Sharpie marker on the heater/air conditioner unit caught my eye. I took a picture of it. “Keep in...
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Persist
The light bulb. One of the greatest inventions of all time. Something we all take for granted, accessible with the simple flip of a switch. We tend to not consider the blood, sweat, and tears that go...
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Wish
We all wish for things. That’s positive. Wishes give us something to daydream about when we’re bored. Or, a wish might pop into our heads to comfort us, to make us feel better, to send us to our...
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Barriers–Be Like Sweetness
How do you deal with barriers? First, let’s define what a barrier is so that we’re on the same page. How about this: a barrier is something that blocks us from reaching our goal. A barrier implies a...
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2013 Review
Here we are, once again, at that “crease” in time that separates one year from the next. One more trip around the sun has been logged. So tell me, how has your 2103 been? What kind of year has it...
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3 Big Goals
We have a brand new year ahead of us, full of opportunity and potential. A fresh, blank canvas is staring at you. What will you put on that canvas this year? I didn’t say what others will put on it...
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Clarity
If you want to excel, personally or professionally, one thing you need in your arsenal of skills is the ability to give clarity. Notice I said “skills”. Many people have difficulty being clear with...
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Strategy
When we have a goal, we need a strategy. HOW will we achieve that goal? I’ve been an avid weightlifter for many years. Disciplined and dedicated, since I was 11, when my Dad bought me my first set of...
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Striking Distance
In Karate, as in all striking arts, there’s something called Striking Distance. This may not be the official term for everyone, but it’s a crucial idea. The idea is that when you execute a technique—a...
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To be Effective is to be Efficient
We’ve been discussing Strategy the last couple weeks. Let’s continue in that vein. And remember: whether you’re a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker, a business owner, a manager, a homemaker, a...
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