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  Thinking vs. Doing

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  Lessons from a Beach Ball

  In one of my coaching sessions with Phil Stutz he told me to write something down. (He often does that. 😃) He said, “Draw a horizontal line. Above that line, put ‘Thinking Space.’ Below the line, p...

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  The Marshmallow Test

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  Can You Wait for Two?

  As we recently discussed, Walter Mischel is one of the world’s leading researchers on the science of willpower. You’ve probably heard about his classic study called The Marshmallow Test. Here’s the quick story: Preschool kids are brought into a simple little room. An adult tells the child...

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  Recommitment

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  Commitment Is Easy - It's ALL about Recommitting

  We’ve talked a lot about the importance of making a strong commitment. We know that making a 100% commitment is, somewhat paradoxically, way easier than making a 90% or 95% or even a 99.9% comm...

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  The Serenity Prayer

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  Serenity + Courage + Wisdom = A Winning Combo

  In our last +1 we talked about Byron Katie’s idea that you can be in one of three businesses: someone else’s business, God’s business or YOUR business. Quick recap: We want to stay out of other people’s business and we want to stay out of God’s business as w...

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  Whose Business Are You In?

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  Three Options: Yours + Someone Else’s + God’s

  Byron Katie tells us that there are three different businesses we can be in: Our own business, someone else’s business, or God’s business. She tells us that if we want to reduce our suffering, we’d be VERY wise to focus exclusively on OUR business. You may have noticed tha...

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  Being Exonerated

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  Is NEVER Going to Happen (Sorry to Break the News!)

  In our last +1, I casually mentioned the fact that our heroic reframing of challenges is something we will work on forever. Yes, I literally meant F O R E V E R. Q: “But, that’s such a very long time. Surely, I’ll get to a point where I’ve figured it all out and will be exonerate...

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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 and his wisdom on Wishing vs. Deciding. The key difference? When we DECIDE, we get clear on what we want AND we get clear on...

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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 ...

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  Win or Learn

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  Three Questions to Ask after a Disappointing Performance

  Lanny Bassham won a gold medal in rifle shooting in the 1976 Olympics. But he didn’t win that gold until AFTER he kinda fell apart in the 1972 Olympics where he took home a silver. He used that disappointment to fuel his mental toug...

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  Mediocrity vs. Excellence

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  How to Avoid Getting Stuck in the Middle of a Rugged Mountain

  In our last few +1s, we’ve been chatting about reaching the Peak of our potential. What’s the alternative? Well, did you know that the Latin root of the word mediocre LITERALLY means to get stuck in the middle of a ru...

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  Victim vs. Creator

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  Two Questions: "Why Me?" vs. "What Do I Want?"

  David Emerald wrote a great book called The Power of TED. In it, he makes the distinction between being a Victim vs. being a Creator.

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  Wearing Scars As Medals

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  What a Hero Does with the Dragon Claw Marks

  In our last +1 we chatted about the fact that, as Campbell tells us, when we go for bliss on our hero’s journey we need to remember that there’s always the chance for a fiasco. (Hah!) Yep. Always. That’s part of the deal and why we need to get really good at e...

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  110-Year-Old You

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  Ready for Some Time Travel?

  In his great book Happier, Tal Ben-Shahar tells us that we have all the wisdom we will ever need—as evidenced by individuals who undergo a traumatic life experience and then radically transform their lives. He gives us a fun, powerful way to access our innate wisdom. Here’s my take...

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  Sacrifices vs. Decisions

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  There’s a Big Difference between the Two

  George St-Pierre is one of the greatest mixed martial artists in the world. Ever. Of course, he wasn’t always one of the greatest. At one point, he was just a young guy working as a garbage man who DECIDED he was going to be the best in the world. People around him thought he was crazy...

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  The Obstacle Is the Way

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  Plus: The Paradox of Fire

  Marcus Aurelius once wrote to himself in the journal he never intended to publish that we now know as Meditations that “The impediment to action advances the action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

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