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Things turn out the best for those who make the best of how things turn out!

You often cannot impact the cards you are dealt in life but you can choose how you play those cards. Having that

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine. Think about it. What future are you creating when you are

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“I am the one I’ve been waiting for…”

Every now and again I find that I’m waiting for something or someone to come along and resolve something or make something

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Rationalize = Rational Lies

Often our attempts to explain or analyze a failure to reach a goal devolve into rationalizations. And often those rationalizations are nothing

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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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Three Kinds of People

One of the mental exercises that people seem to love is to break down the world into different kinds of people. Here

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The Golden Opportunity You Are Seeking…

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, It is not in luck or chance,

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Feelings Buried Alive Never Die

In 1969, Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote “On Death and Dying” and popularized the concept of the grief cycle: denial, anger, bargaining,

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Never Major in Minor Things

The New York Times recently reported “In a magazine article seven years ago, the chief executive of the Journal Register Company, the

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Acorns & Forests: Balancing optimism and short-term constraints

I practice realistic optimism. There is a part of me that is a radiant optimist. “I carry the sun in my pocket,”

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I am a “good” finder

I am a good finder: I look for the best in everything and everyone. This is one of my favorite affirmations, part

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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