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Tail Enders

Affirmations are positive, present-tense statements designed to bring out our best selves, to focus our thoughts, emotions, and attention in the direction

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“The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking”

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the

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The 100-Day To-Do List

Geoff Vuleta is CEO of Fahrenheit 212, an innovation consulting firm in New York City. Geoff’s creed is that a trait of

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Creating Value vs. Transferring Value

As a business person it is my goal to create value. Value is created when the whole is more than the sum

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No ANTs at the Picnic, Please

ANTs are those Automatic Negative Thoughts that we so often allow to run in the background of our minds. ANTs are the

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“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift”

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine How good do we have to be?

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Nicole Kidman: “Waste Not, Want Not”

When I was growing up we didn’t have much money, so phrases such as “a penny saved is a penny earned” and

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If Not Now, When?

The fourth in a series of blog posts appealing, beseeching, imploring YOU to design a written life plan for the coming year!

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Excuse Me! Your Life is Waiting!

Third in a series of blog posts urging, begging, pleading with you to turbo-charge your existence with a WRITTEN life plan for

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Calculated Risk

A calculated risk is a course of action undertaken after carefully considering all possible outcomes, preparing appropriately for each, and deciding that

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Reprogramming the Procrastinator Personality

All of us are busy and some things just don’t get done. That is not necessarily procrastination. Procrastination is when you put

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Asking Effective Questions

Not all questions are created equal. An effective question is one that is – Open ended (difficult to answer yes or no),