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Wait a minute…
Some thoughts on procrastination:
—it’s not an aversion to hard work, because procrastinators end up working very hard…
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What Came Before
Whenever we fail, it is tempting to over-examine the big event itself, and under-examine all…
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Don’t Get Impeached
For Nixon, it wasn’t so much the campaign to discredit his opponents (although illegal), it was the…
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Smile Your Way to Happiness
In his brilliant book Resilience, former Navy SEAL (and now Governor or Missouri) Eric Greitens delivers some amazing wisdom to a fellow SEAL struggling…
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The Best Way to Suffer Well
The best way to suffer well is to practice something I like to call “servival.” Obviously, I like to make up words (“screamfree,” anyone?), and this one …
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The Easiest Way to Earn Respect
I hear parents complain about their “disrespectful” kids all the time. Here’s my question in reply: When you lose your cool with them and say and do things you regret, how quickly do you apologize? Some folks actually tell me they don’t apologize, ‘cos that would communicate “weakness.” Others tell me they’ll […]
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TBT: Be Bamboozled
The first step of lasting growth is to change your thinking about growth itself. Making small changes and being gentle with yourself along the way…