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What do you want to do?
Follow your bliss. Pursue your passion.
This is common advice to young people setting out…
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Without this, it doesn’t matter what you want
“We want what we want.” I’ve heard that phrase used as…
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A Life of Ease is Soon Dis-eased
Wishing to make our lives as easy as possible is certainly tempting. For those of us with kids, it can be even more tempting to…
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Over-functioning is Under-productive
Whenever we use threats to control anyone’s behavior, we ruin any chance of getting what we actually want most. See, we don’t want our employees to improve because we threatened to fire them, we don’t want…
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What a tangled web we weave…
Whenever we deceive others, in order to make things better for ourselves in the moment, we deceive ourselves most of all. The real lie is thinking that by…
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Doing the Undone
All of us are surrounded by unfinished projects…at work, in our homes, in our relationships. These undone actions can be haunting, constant reminders of…
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Liking Your Opponent
All week we’ve been talking about disagreement, and learning to do it well. One of the best ways to do this quickly is to simply acknowledge…
