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  Your Seeds of Potential

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  Where Are You Planting Them?

  In our last +1, we talked about our micro farm in our backyard. As we discussed, it’s absolutely fascinating to me that those seeds just hang out in the packet and then burst out of the ground once their life force is activated. But, here’s what’s interesting. Although there are al...

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  Goals & Modern Hērō

  big-picture flourish goals modern-hero soul Spirit Vision wildly-important-goals

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  “If I Had Zero Fear…”

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  I Would Do THIS!

  In our last +1, we talked about driving with your brakes on. We took a nice, deep breath and then we took our foot off the fear-of-failure brakes. Today I’d like to talk a little more about what you would do if you had no fear. Obviously, fear can be a useful emotion. Except when it is...

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  +1 inspired by Note: Reinventing Yourself

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  Confidence & Conquering Procrastination

  confidence Conquering Procrastination courage journal-exercise Mental Toughness soul Spirit technology Vision

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  Making (Life) Music with Jerry Garcia

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  Key Lyrics: Be You

  On my sunrise hike/trail run this morning, I saw a guy wearing a sweet Jerry Garcia t-shirt. I waved and smiled and said “Hi!” and we had a nice little micro-Love 2.0 moment. Then I thought about a passage from Super Bowl-winning coach

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  +1 inspired by Note: Win Forever

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  Peak Performance & Purpose

  Actualization big-picture idiosyncratic Peak Performance purpose soul Spirit Vision

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  Making Yourself Proud

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  How Will You Do So Today?

  In our last +1, we talked about wisdom from my mom and Thomas Carlyle. Here’s the quick recap: Mom: “God gave you gifts. You must give them to the world!!!” Tom: “The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder; a waif, a nothing, a no-man. Have a pu...

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  Conquering Depression & Purpose

  Areté conquering-depression Eudaimonia Happiness purpose soul Spirit tool Vision

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  Ambition + Routine

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  “Routine, in an Intelligent Person, Is a Sign of Ambition.”

  Daily Rituals is a fascinating book that features brief vignettes of the idiosyncratic habits of 161 of history’s most iconoclastic writers, scientists and other great thinkers—ranging from W.H. Auden, Ch...

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  Habits & Purpose

  Fundamentals Habits Mind productivity purpose time management Vision

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  How to Live Forever

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  The Quest for Immortality

  Continuing our exploration of wisdom gleaned from Yuval Noah Harari’s big brain and two bestselling books, let’s talk about how to live forever. (This one will be more like a +11 as it’ll run on the longer side…) But… Fi...

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  +1 inspired by Note: Sapiens

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  Antifragility & Purpose

  antifragility big-picture Health Inspiration memento-mori purpose soul Spirit Vision

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  How to Discover Your Mission

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  3 Steps to Clarity on Your Life’s Work

  While we’re talking about Alex Lickerman and his ideas on how to create an indestructible self while turning poison into medicine and all that goodness, let’s talk about your purpose in life. Specifically, your MISSION in life...

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  +1 inspired by Note: The Undefeated Mind

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  Journaling & Purpose

  Actualization big-picture journal-exercise journaling purpose self-awareness soul Spirit Vision

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  Science of Daydreaming

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  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

  Did you know there’s actually a science of daydreaming? It’s true. Thank you, awesome researchers. Technically, they describe it as either daydreaming or “mind-wandering” but it’s important stuff. Why? Because this is our ticket to activating the supercomputer-like default mode...

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  +1 inspired by Note: Bored and Brilliant

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  Creativity & Self-Image

  Happiness Mind Recovery science time management Vision

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  Begin Before You Begin

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  How to Transition to the New You

  In our last +1, we talked about zambonis for your brain. Also known as naps. We added a Dan Pink-inspired addition of a cup of coffee right before to make it a nappuccino. (You try it out?! 🤠) Let’s go back to Dan’s

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  +1 inspired by Note: When

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  Peak Performance & Self-Image

  Character courage Mental Toughness Peak Performance self-image soul Spirit Vision

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  Want Recognition?

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  Focus on Being WORTHY of It

  Continuing our good times with Confucius, here’s one of the gems from his Analects that has tattooed itself on my brain since I read it a decade ago. “The Master said, He d...

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  Leadership & Self-Image

  Excellence leadership Power self-image service soul Spirit Vision

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  WOOPy WOOP!

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  WOOP! There It Is … Again!

  Yesterday we reviewed our Motivation Equation. I hope you took the time to hang out with your #1 Wildly Important Goal and run it through the little magical formula. And, if not: Pardon the soapbox moment but… Um… Well, hmmmm… We can’t incrementally crush it together if we’re n...

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  Confidence & Goals

  confidence goals Mind Motivation productivity Strategy tool Vision

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  Your Grand Purpose

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  How to Turn Apparent Misfortune into Great Fortune

  One of the themes we come back to again and again is the basic idea of loving what is — whether that’s via Byron Katie’s wisdom or the Stoics or the

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  Antifragility & Purpose

  Actualization antifragility big-picture equanimity purpose soul Spirit Vision

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  Capacities Clamoring to Be Used

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  Answering Your Soul’s Cries

  As you know (and as we’ve discussed many times), Abraham Maslow once said that “What one can be, one must be.” He described this as the need to self-actualize. As you ascend his hierar...

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  Optimal Living & Purpose

  Actualization big-picture self-awareness soul Spirit Vision

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  Bonzai Trees, Goldfish, and You

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  How to 100x Your Awesome

  Today we’re going to chat about bonzai trees and goldfish and you. Alan Cohen puts it so perfectly (in his epically named book Why Your Life S...

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  Confidence & Purpose

  big-picture flourish Growth soul Spirit Vision

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  Seeds of (Metaphorical) Corn

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  You Planting Yours?

  We’re on a roll with some mindfulness wisdom via Goenka, so here’s one more story. Once upon a time an Indian woman with a large family passed away. Now, Goenka tells us, in classic Indian culture, the woman controlled the family finances so the widower needed to select one of his f...

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  Abundance & Purpose

  big-picture compound flourish Goenka Inspiration soul Spirit Vision

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