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What Do You Do? The Most Uncomfortable Question and How to Answer it Like a Pro.
Explaining my profession to strangers used to be easy. When they asked, “What do you do?”, I would reply with, “I am an English teacher.” And, if I wanted to add more pride to my answer, I’d say, “I...
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The Limits of Lifehacking: What Happens When You Approach Optimization?
I have a weird memory of my dad explaining math to me when I was a kid. I never actually learned real math, at least once it went beyond how to pocket extra lunch money, and still haven’t learned...
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A Bad Plan Is Better Than No Plan
Games are like a super power. Games got me into college, got me into graduate school, got me my first job, raised me money for businesses. Taught me strategy, taught me how to handle adversity, taught...
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Miracles Are Real
I think magic is real. More real than your table. The chair. Your coffee too. Miracles are real too. Science proves it. Religion talks about it. Sometimes loss takes away our belief in miracles. It...
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Your Esteem and Your Money
We live in a global economy of insecurity. Not because of vacillating markets, but unstable self worth. Our lack of esteem feeds the globalization machine. If you/we loved ourselves more deeply, a lot...
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Start Your Day Off Right With The Hour of Power
The morning is the most important time of the day. If you spend an hour a day to do these three things you will be happier in life, healthier, and more motivated than you’ve ever felt. @JackCanfield...
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How Ignoring What Bores You Leads to a Living a Mundane Life
Where are you bored in your life? That is the question. So how would you answer it? I just finished reading Cheryl Richardson’s new book called “Waking up in Winter” – a wonderful read that talks to...
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The Power to Question Defeat!
You possess a potential power that is superior to any difficulty that life may ever present. This immense inner capability enables anyone who will claim it to instantly rise above his or her challenge....
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How to Create Bulletproof Protection Against Psychopaths & Narcissists
Have you ever been in an argument with someone where you feel like they are intentionally misunderstanding what you’re saying? They twist every single word to leave you feeling frustrated and hopeless...
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How to Be Happy
I love Bali, so much so that I’ve gone four times. It’s hard not to love Bali – the beautiful land, delicious food, (I gotta tell you the raw cacao desserts in Ubud are orgasmic!), warm weather,...
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Anton Chekhov’s Letter to His Brother about the 8 Conditions for “Civilized...
In 1886, Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov wrote a letter of advice to his beloved older brother Nikolai, a talented painter and writer who suffered from severe alcoholism....
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How Are Your Reactions Creating Your Experiences?
Well, I did it. Yep. Last month I turned off my computer, closed my office door behind me and put my life on a semi-hold for a week. If you know me, you know that was no easy task. But … I did it so I...
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How (And When) to Apologize to Your Child
Making Repairs Every relationship has conflict. The question is how we handle those conflicts—so they build walls between us, or so they bring us closer? Our goal with our children is to model how to...
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The Two-Step Process to Uncover the Lessons from Your Own Judgments
This is part two of the three-part series about Judgment. You can find Part One here. A little while ago I was at my first Ecstatic Dance Party. That’s a dance party where there are no phones allowed,...
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My Second Chance Was Almost My Funeral
In the movies, we see how life flashes before someone’s eyes right before they’re about to meet their maker. It didn’t quite happen like that for me. No, I’m not writing you from the grave. I survived....
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What Is Perfectly Normal For You?
“When you’re five, you think you can jump off the bed in a homemade cape you made and fly. Even when your parents tell you can’t, you’re still gonna try and do it.” – Veronica Siaba (Dancer with...
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You Are Assigned This Mountain to Prove That It Can Be Moved
In the midst of self-publishing my first book, I wanted to hide. After frequent posting and shouting about myself, my book, my work, approaching people to collaborate, and asking for help, I was...
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How to Start Over at 40
At 40 I lost my wife, my home, and my job. And many of my friends. And I was ashamed. I didn’t want to tell people my wife had left. I didn’t want to tell people my home was for sale. And the website I...
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Team D’s Manifesto for Conscious Business (C’mon and get it.)
For the past seven or so years we’ve operated my company on this strategy: that visibility lifts the ship, that exposure translates into dollars. Land the publicity…magazines, shows, interviews; do the...
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How I Learned to Connect with My True Self
My husband proposed before we even kissed. When we met, we were two Romanians living and working in Asia, within the same company but in two different countries. I was in China; he was in South Korea....
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