Category: Discipline

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Resilience is a Learnable Skill Set

Folks, I do my best to plan ahead, to live smart and avoid dumb, to sidestep as many of life’s pitfalls and

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Which Do You Believe in Most: The Goal? Or the Obstacle?

What we focus on expands, thoughts held in mind attract in kind, and energy flows where attention goes. Where are your thoughts

fear

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Are You Brave?

I’m not asking about charging a machinegun nest in WWII… I’m speaking about emotional courage. Do you have the internal fortitude to

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Swallowed Any Hand Grenades Lately?

Life is complex. While there is much truth in the adage, “feelings buried alive never die” there is also a place for

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Calibrating Your Caring; Pacing Your Passion to Perform and Persevere

NYT recently ran an article about a golf pro with a growing history of faltering at the very end, letting tournament after

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Does Time Own You? Or Do You Control Time?

“There are two fundamental ways to approach time: Either it’s something outside of you that you cannot control, or it’s something within

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This is What I Do

The phrase “This is What I Do” is a calming mantra I use during times of excess inputs (aka stress) to center

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Why Not You? Why Not Today?

Success, however you choose to define it, is not reserved exclusively for others. Rather, progress belongs to those who combine pragmatic vision

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Let the Problem Solve Us

‘Let the problem solve us’ means going deeper, asking how and why the problem occurred and what we can learn from it.

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Do You Have a Standard?

Do you hold yourself… and others… accountable? To a high bar? One that calls out to and requires the best of you?

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Stress is not an event…

Stress is not an event; it is a learned reaction to an event. This is my mantra and while not a silver