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  How to Be a Perfect Person

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  Hint: Embrace the Imperfections

  As I typed out the title for this +1—”How to Be a Perfect Person”—I laughed. A perfect person? HAH!!! As we’ve discussed so many times, THERE ARE NO PERFECT...

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  Curiosity

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  Actualized the Optimizer

  In our last +1, we talked about using data as a flashlight not a hammer. With the right (read: GROWTH) mindset, there’s no such thing as “bad” data. We’re experimenters. The data’s all neutral. Actually… When we really...

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  Flashlight vs. Hammer

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  How Are You Using Life's Data?

  Today we’re going to return to David Brooks’ great book The Second Mountain for a little more wisdom. Let’s flip open our copies of the book to page 2...

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  Gratitude Letters

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  Write One Lately? (Science Says…)

  Wrapping up our foray into the science of gratitude, let’s chat about one more INCREDIBLY powerful way to boost our gratitude and, therefore, pretty much every aspect of our well-being: Gratitude Letters. Let’s go back to Robert Emmons and Martin Seligman. In

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  What Went Well? (And Why?!)

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  Proven Way to Pump up the ‘Ol Gratitude Muscles

  Gratitude. Yes, we’ve been chatting about it quite a bit recently. That’s deliberate. You know how we recently established the (scientifically-validated) Top 2 virtues as Zest + Hope? Well… Positive psychologists arm wrestle a bit about those top tw...

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  Memento (Time) Flies

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  28 Days Later

  In our last +1, we talked about the science of Memento Mori. And, for the courageous among us, we actually walked through the “death” scenario scientists use to create more gratitude in their test subjects. Now… Right after I typed that +1, I cruised into the b...

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  Memento Privilege

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  The Science of Memento Mori

  Let’s continue our exploration of the science of gratitude for another moment (or three). In his great book Gratitude Works!, Robert Emmons walks us through a nu...

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  The #1 Obstacle to Gratitude

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  And Its Remedy

  In our last +1, we continued our exploration of the science of gratitude by practicing the grateful art of shifting from taking things “for granted” to seeing all the gifts “AS GRANTED” to us. Today I want to talk about the #1 thing that gets in the way of gratitude....

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  Taking Things FOR GRANTED vs. AS GRANTED

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  Let’s Choose Wisely

  In our last couple +1s, we talked about the science of gratitude and explored some tips on Robert Emmons’ #1 practice: Gratitude Journaling. Today I want to chat about one of the distinctions I most loved from his book

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  How to Cultivate Gratitude

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  Science Says: #1 Practice = …

  Robert Emmons joined us to give us some EYE-POPPING (his words, my all caps!) stats: “People are 25 percent happier if they keep gratitude journals, sleep one-half hour more per evening, and exercise 33 percent more each week compared to persons who are not keeping these journals.” ...

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  Science Says: Gratitude Works

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  Some EYE-POPPING Stats

  In our last +1, we talked about the power of gratitude. We soaked up some science-wisdom from Robert Emmons, the leading researcher on gratitude, who told us that gratitude is the best approach to life. When things are going well, it amplifies the awesome. When things aren’t going so well...

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  The Ultimate Gift

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  Existence Itself

  In our last +1 we talked about David Brooks’ two mountains and connected them to the metaphor of stepping out of our shiny race cars and into the pit crew to help OTHERS win THEIR races in life. I encouraged us to get tactical about it—picking three people and thinking of one thing we c...

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  A Quick Ticket to Ick

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  Go from Active to Sedentary and… VOILA!

  In our last +1, we talked about how to sidestep depression and anxiety. I still can’t believe that scientists have identified a threshold for our step counts under which we make ourselves more vulnerable for anxiety and depression. As Kelly McGonigal tells us in

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  How to Sidestep Depression

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  Did You Know There’s a Magic # of Steps?

  Did you know that scientists have identified a threshold for your step count under which you make yourself more vulnerable for anxiety and depression? Yep. It’s nuts. Check this out. In Kelly McGonigal’s FANTASTIC (!) new book called

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  Brushing Our Brains

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  Here’s Your Brainbrush

  In our last +1, we spent some time with Emily Fletcher and reflected on her meditation wisdom that thoughts are not our enemies. As she tells us: “The single most important piece of meditation advice you can hold with you as you dive in is this: Thoughts are not the enemy. Remember that t...

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