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Caging Your “What If Monkey”

“What If Monkeys” are always asking “What if it doesn’t work?” And while there is certainly a need to evaluate risks and

A woman sitting inside a cardboard box in the middle of the room. Her head is down and she looks sad and alone.

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Separating Fear Management from Danger Management

“Fear is an emotion induced by perceived danger or threat… Fear in human beings may occur in response to a certain stimulus

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What is Your Ikigai?

Ikigai is a Japanese word for “reason for being” or more loosely translated, “the reason why you wake up each morning.” What

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Giving Thanks Daily

Most everyone reading this has won the “birth lottery”; we were born in the developed world. No matter our inherent abilities and

Count your blessings

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Lest we Forget… Our Blessings are Many

For all our troubles, we live in relative peace, prosperity, and safety. What follows is an excerpt from a GI’s memoir of

supervisor advisor

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Making the Leap: From Supervisor to Advisor

The common fallacy, usually unspoken but scrupulously adhered to nonetheless, is that someone is made a supervisor because of their “super” vision

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Crescendo Living

Crescendo is a musical term for a passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity and in other context means

on stage

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Backstage Behaviors

“Back stage” and “front stage” are terms coined by the late (1922-1982) sociologist Erving Goffman in his 1959 book, “The Presentation of

believe you can

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It All Starts With A Belief

What is your belief? What is at your core? We all believe in something even if it is that there is nothing.

daily routine

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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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There is no Finish Line

There is no finish line, only another day and another race. Yes, death awaits us all but I am speaking of the

connect heart and mind

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How to Build a Ship

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead,