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Mental Muscles

About 6 o’clock one recent Saturday morning I went downstairs and did a few reps on a Nautilus machine. The longer I

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Conflict Avoidance: Passive—Aggressive Coping Mechanism

Conflict avoidance can be a major stumbling block in resolving ongoing problems in any relationship or organization. Awareness is the first step

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Waste Not, Want Not

Up to half the almost 600 billion pounds of food the United States produces each year goes to waste at a cost

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Hard Drives Out Soft

When I started out in the real estate ownership and management business, I decided there were three things I had to emphasize

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Star Tasks vs. Guardian Tasks: Harvard Business Review and Pirates

According to Hayagreeva Raoa’s guest column in the October 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR), “What 17th-Century Pirates Can Teach Us

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The Courage to Lead: I’m Still a Work in Progress, Always Will Be

For a long time I was reluctant to engage in certain forms of leadership. The straight business side, such as goal setting,

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Profound Change

Most highly-successfully people change profoundly over the course of their lives, endlessly developing and honing the qualities that permit them to first

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Meditating on the Move

Meditation has widely been shown to reduce stress, clear the mind, relax the body. Meditation obviously has many health benefits, both mental

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Small Secrets

I find that many people subscribe to some version of the “big secret” theory of life, also known by its variants “the

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Feedforward

Feedforward is in contrast to feedback. Feedback often focuses on what people have done wrong in the past. Thus it frequently engenders

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Cold Stoves: Learning the Right Lesson

It is said that a cat, once burned on a hot stove, never sits on a hot stove again. But the cat

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Spiritual Economics

In the physical world of material things, if you give something away you have less. Spiritual economics, however, is a very different