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No Individual Raindrop Takes Responsibility But the Flood Still Happens

Occasionally I hear someone lambasting politicians for pandering* to the masses in order to be re-elected, or bemoaning the lack of community

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The Pros Make it Look Easy: On the importance of doing a great job AND looking great while you do it

Did you ever notice how Olympic gymnasts often smile at key moments as they execute those difficult maneuvers? I sincerely doubt that

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Don’t Let the Other Side Rent Space in Your Head: Winning the Mental Game

I’ve been playing racquetball regularly for more than 30 years and over that time I’ve played a lot of people. One of

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Use Your “I & R”

Use your “I & R,” your “Initiative and Resourcefulness.”* Initiative: An introductory step or movement; an act which originates or begins. Resourcefulness:

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It was true…Until it wasn’t

It was true… Until it wasn’t. Years ago, a wise friend made an observation about a certain aspect of the financial market.

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Does Screaming Improve Behavior? An Error in Intution

In the mid-60s a future Nobel Prize winner (2002 for Economics), Daniel Kahneman, lectured to a group of Israeli air force flight

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In Praise of Disappointment

The ability to handle disappointment is one of the more valuable life management skills. The capacity to take disappoint in stride and

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Habits: A Liberating Perspective

“First we make our habits, and then our habits make us.” ~ Charles C. Noble “Could the young but realize how soon

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We Change When We Want To

We change when we want to. The catalyst can be whatever we want it to be. I’m fascinated by human beings, what

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Reframing Revisted

A while back I wrote about reframing, the technique of choosing to look at something in a positive light, in a way

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Training Shamu: Lessons for Humans

Amy Sutherland has written a short, amusing book called “What Shamu Taught Me About Life, Love, and Marriage: Lessons for People From

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The Drunkard’s Walk and The Law of Small Numbers

“The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives” is a fascinating book on probability by Leonard Mlodinow (with a nice cover blurb