micawbers principle

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Micawber’s Principle

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds & six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditures twenty pounds ought &

choose the smile

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Choose the Smile

David Murdock is Dole Pineapple’s CEO. And he is 90 years young. A 2010 Wall Street Journal picture shows him with a

who needs enemies

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Who Needs Enemies When You Have Yourself? Ending Self-Sabotaging Behavior Once and for All

Self-sabotaging behavior is any thing you do that holds you back, keeps you from being your best self. Self-sabotaging behavior is rarely

smart swaps

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Smart Swaps

A smart swap is when you substitute a positive or neutral behavior for a negative behavior. At its simplest, a smart swap

barbara corcoran

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Those Words Branded My Soul

Who is Barbara Corcoran? A diner waitress who took a $1,000 loan in 1973 and built a top residential real estate firm

active listening

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Active Listening: Listening to Understand

Most of what we call listening is really “waiting to speak.” Here is how people “hear” us: You say something, sounds are

beware inertia spending

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Beware Inertia Spending

Inertia spending is when you incur some expense or repeat some process or event simply because that is the way it has

there's gotta be a little rain sometime

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There’s Gotta Be a Little Rain Sometime

Life is difficult is the first sentence of “The Road Less Traveled,” by Scott Peck; 1936–2005. In the first section of “The

living with power of self knowledge

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Living with the Power of Self Knowledge: Humans are not rational decision making machines, duh!

One of the worst “gifts” of traditional economics to our culture was the idea the rational man—a cool, calm, calculating machine whose

incessant maintenance of highest standards

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The Incessant Maintenance of the Highest Standards, Relentless Insistence on Effort and Attention to Details”

On May 4th, 2013, the Chicago Bulls won Game 7 over the Brooklyn Nets in the 1st round of the NBA playoffs.

Brain

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“Attention Warps Semantic Representation Across The Human Brain”

A recent article with this jaw-breaking title was published on line in the Journal of Nature Neuroscience. Based on MRI studies done

take control of self image

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Take Control of Your Self Image

This is from Zig Ziglar; 1926–2012, a master teacher in the art of self motivation. Few could say it better, none with