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Reverse Indicators
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How to Interpret Your Encounters with Dragons

So, let’s say you’ve decided to embark on a heroic quest. It’s time for you to leave the normal, routine life and really go for it—stretching yourself to dare greatly and do what you’re here to do. (GOOD DECISION!!!) Now, every good hero’s journey has some pretty epic dragon-...

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Resistance Breathing
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How to Work Out the Most Underappreciated Muscle in Your Body

What do you think is the most important, underappreciated muscle in your body? Think about that for a moment. What’s your guess? I think this is the most underappreciated muscle in my body: ___________________________. Well, get this: Breathing experts tell us th...

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The iPhone Effect
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How to Immediately (+ Easily) Boost the Quality of Your Interactions Today

Have you ever heard of “The iPhone Effect”? Get this: Imagine bringing people into a lab. Split them into two groups. One group sits down and chats with someone they’ve never met while a smartphone is visible on the table next to them. The other group sits down and chats with someone they...

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Moist Robots
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How to Program Yourself for Awesome

While we’re on a roll with some Scott Adams wisdom, how about one more? Scott tells us that we’re kinda like moist Robots. We’re programmable. We just need to learn how to program our Robot-selves for optimal performance. The first few buttons he tells us to push?...

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Systems vs. Goals
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Why Goals Are for Losers and How to Become a Winner

In our last +1, we talked about Scott Adams’s wisdom on Wishing vs. Deciding. The key difference? When we DECIDE, we get clear on what we want AND we get clear on the price we’ll need to pay. Then… We get busy paying it.

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Deciding vs. Wishing
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3 Steps on How to Get What You Want

Scott Adams created Dilbert. He also wrote a great little manual on how to achieve success called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. One of the Big Ideas from that book is getting really clear on the difference between “wishing” for something and DECIDING ...

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Euthymia
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How to Live with Energized Tranquility

First: Welcome to our 100th +1. It’s a special milestone. Kinda excited about it. 😃 Let’s celebrate it with one of my favorite words ever: euthymia. Seneca talks about the power of euthymia in his classic essays. He tells us that euthymia is all about kn...

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Time Affluence
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It’s a Better Predictor of Your Well-Being than Financial Affluence

Having enough money to take care of your basic needs is an important variable in constructing an optimal life. And, of course, nice things are nice. But… Research shows that after a certain level of basic financial well-being, there’s a diminishing returns where more money doesn’t ...

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The Equanimity Game
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How to Play It Like an Emperor

In our last +1, we talked about getting really good at recovering from our inevitable glitches. My favorite way to do that? I like to think of Marcus Aurelius. In his Meditations, Aurelius wrote to himself: “When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no t...

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Turning Around Glitches
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What True Confidence Looks Like and How to Build It

True confidence doesn’t come from thinking everything will always go perfectly. That’s crazy. In fact, as Phil Stutz pointed out in one of our coaching sessions, the need for absolute certainty results in absolute terror. Quite simply: We MUST be willing to t...

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