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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…

  • What Came Before

    Whenever we fail, it is tempting to over-examine the big event itself, and under-examine all…

  • Love This Weekend

    If your life feels empty, try …

  • Don’t Get Impeached

    For Nixon, it wasn’t so much the campaign to discredit his opponents (although illegal), it was the…

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • Creativity…through suffering?

    Yesterday we learned to acknowledge our suffering. Today we learn to…

  • 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 […]

  • 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…

  • Peace for your past?

    Don’t forget to forgive.