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Today is the Day
Don’t hesitate. Don’t wait. Tomorrow may not be a better time to start. Tomorrow may not be. Start something ‘BIG” today. Something Brave, something Important, something Generous. You are brave,...
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Intuition
Following up on Seth’s short post from yesterday, you can begin using your sophisticated pattern matching as early as this morning. I love that intuition isn’t taking a wild stab in the dark but rather...
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Bonus Day Planning
Every four years we get a mulligan; an extra day in February. Tomorrow ids that day. February 29, 2016 is declared a ‘Do Over Day’. If you have had a bad day, a horrible day, a stress filled day in...
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Arbitrary
We all know that the end of one month and the beginning of another is an arbitrary landmark created by the creation of the calendar. But as February 29 brings to an end an exciting month for so many...
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March Madness
With NCAA basketball playoffs, Super Tuesday, St Patrick’s Day, Easter, Time change, and spring break this month we will all feel a bit of the madness (both invigorating and deflating). I am going to...
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Intentional Foolishness
“Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.” –Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author Choosing to be foolish is a difficult task. Allowing the fear of embarrassment to confront you and then push it away can be...
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Calculated Frenzy
One of the definitions of madness includes the idea state of frenzied or chaotic activity. I have some routines that serve me on the micro level. My mornings from 5am to 8am are all very similar. My...
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Self Sabotage
There have been lots of times that I wondered if I handled success better than failure. The expression “you are your own worst enemy” rings true for most of us. How many times have we acted against our...
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What’s Trending?
I was thinking about the foolish stuff we, as a society, are supposedly interested in. In a world of polls, surveys, data mining, and Google we can get up to the minute reports on what is trending in...
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Misfits
I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits. ~Stephan Jenkins Apparently in fashion, garments that are made with irregularities are known as misfits. I...
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Is This Thing Working?
Imagine a country filled with possibilities where most of your needs can be met and lots of your desires achieved. A place where honesty, integrity, persistence and some initiative are rewarded by...
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Self Imposed Barriers
I was reading Ali Polin’s post this morning Isn’t it Time You Dare Yourself to Up Your Game? and she had a link to a post from early this month on self imposed barriers which got me thinking about...
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Change is Good
Not all change and not all the time. Although some folks would say that I try to change everything in every situation. I tend towards shaking things up, just to agitate myself and see what might fall...
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Free to Be Me
It takes commitment and courage to be yourself in the face of the coercion of conformity. Not looking like everyone else or at least looking the same with minor alterations is fearful for many. As I...
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Off the Beaten Path
Rules, rules, rules. Don’t walk on the grass. No running. Sit up straight. Pay Attention. When I was in elementary school there were rules to be obeyed without question and you got to make your freedom...
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From Strategic Monk “It is easy for us to get focused on mastering the puzzle by finding the solution. There is something seductive, almost addictive, about knowing the right answer. When we decide we...
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Is Planning Crazy?
The world changes so quickly and the variables that impact us and our lives are so interconnected. Does this make planning ahead (more than 168 hours) utter nonsense? I have meetings booked into July....
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What are You Willing to Give Up?
Are you moving towards a change or contemplating something new in your life? Do you need to read more, exercise better, study, make more calls, find a solution … Are you jam packed and struggling....
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Pretending
Thanks Dionne Lew for your post on Medium today entitled “Let’s stop pretending we know everything”. A worthwhile read and it may spark something for you as it did for me. How much pretending is...
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Do One Thing that Scares You
Sometimes I pretend that I am not scared. I get stage fright but speak in front of crowds at least once a week. I have a fear of heights (fear of falling from heights, really) but I climbed to the top...
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