Category: Continual Learning

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Your Actions Tell the True Story

I was struggling with a performance situation once and a therapist told me “Listen to the Behavior.” That was a powerful insight

learn from others

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Envy….or Inspiration?

When you behold the success of others; what first comes to mind? Are you truly happy for them? Or is there a

Steps of goal setting: set goal, make plan, get to work, stick to it, reach goal

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Practice is a Skill

Or more fully stated: ‘effective practice is a learnable skillset’. It may sound like heresy, but not all practice is good practice

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Baker’s Dozen

Recently, I was asked: “What is the most valuable piece of advice you would give to anyone new at TCC who is

Photo of a hand holding a sticky note that says "it starts with you"

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Our Daily Duty

Every day life begins anew and with it an opportunity for new (more informed?) choices, new (wiser?) decisions, new (better?) paths. Will

A sign that says "believe there is good in the world" in gray letters with "be the good" in yellow letters

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Do Your Job

Whatever your trade, your vocation, whatever your life purpose; make it your mission, make it your calling. In other words, give it

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Elevate Your Identity

Your identity, your self-concept, is who you think you are, the story you tell yourself about yourself as well as the standards

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Run Straight at the Pain and You will Develop Superpowers

I’m not talking about physical pain so much as I am about emotional/social pain i.e. the ‘pain’ of self-discipline, the ‘pain’ of

Drawing of a flower pot with a large flower growing out. A women is sitting in the flower and watering the pot

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You Are The Project

You are the most important project you will work on your entire life. Think of yourself as a work in progress; approach

performance review

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You Can Not Lead People if You Need People

But didn’t Barbara Streisand sing ‘People who need people are the luckiest people in the world’? Okay, the title is a deliberate

thanks for feedback

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5 Ways to Give Feedback Better, 21 Soft Ways to Say Hard Things

Note: The following is 90% from a 2018 Blog by Claire Lew, CEO of Know Your Team (http://knowyourteam.com). “My life’s mission is