Category: Motivation

A hand with a marker writing "What are your values?"

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Inner Scorecard or Outer Scorecard?

Inner success or outer success? Which matters most to you? Where did your values and beliefs come from? Truly yours, the result

A chalkboard with 3 different colored sticky notes spelling out "find your passion"

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What is your Ikigai?

Ikigai (ee-kee-guy) is a combination of the Japanese words ‘iki’ (to live) and ‘gai’ (reason) literally meaning ‘reason to live’. What constitutes

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To Live Above the Common Level of Life

‘To live above the common level of life’ means to strive for a life that transcends the ordinary or average, making conscious

A piece of paper with the word "initiative" surrounded by pieces of paper with synonyms for "initiative" like "resourcefulness" and "gumption"

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Sua Sponte

Sua sponte is Latin for ‘of their own accord’ and refers to action taken without formal prompting. While the phrase is a

Cartoon of a man climbing a steep mountain with a flag at the top

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Per Aspera Ad Astra

“Per Aspera Ad Astra” is Latin for ‘through hardship to the stars’ and can be taken several related ways including it is

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Extraordinary Comes From How You Do the Day-to-Day Ordinary

Most of us have heard the quote attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,

The words "invest in yourself" with an upwards arrow

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What ill Discipline Adds to Our Plate

Folks, life is challenging enough without you defecting to the opposition. Yet all too many of us decline to follow the 3

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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

The quote is by the poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019, Pulitzer Prize winner) and the elegant beauty of it always spoke volumes to

Two signs pointing in opposite directions. One says "hard way", the other says "easy way"

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Who Told You it Would Be Easy?

And if someone ever did, why would you believe them? If it were easy, everyone would do it, so what’s the point?

Steps of goal setting: set goal, make plan, get to work, stick to it, reach goal

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Practice is a Skill

Or more fully stated: ‘effective practice is a learnable skillset’. It may sound like heresy, but not all practice is good practice

A dictionary page with the definition for "self-discipline" and the words "self-discipline" being highlighted with a green highlighter marker

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Will is a Skill

For many of us and for much of our lives we have absorbed the concept that willpower, along with its close cousin,