Category: self-help
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It’s a gift
Do I deserve this? (Larry King) Every morning, when I open my eyes, I think: Do I deserve this? I woke up. I have the gift of today. A gift. So what if the skies are cloudy? So what if I burned the eggs at breakfast? So what if I hit a traffic jam on…
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Do the unusual
Explore the freedom in limitations There is a kind of freedom in doing work under limitations. You narrow your scope. You focus on the essentials, and use your resources – money, people, and time – carefully. You get creative. When there’s not enough money, and not enough time, and few resources available, you cut out…
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Is it three feet, or three thousand mile away?
What’s your metric? If you don’t know what you’re looking for, how will you know when you’ve found it? Every day you’re working hard; improving, creating, pushing limits. You’re working to get somewhere. Where? What number, word, or sentence describes your metric – what you want to achieve, and where you want to go? Have…
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Break the routine
Get out of survival mode It’s easy to become stuck in the routine of just making it – the routine of just getting by from day to day to day. But if you want more than what you’re getting from that, you have to break the pattern. You have to establish new rituals. Rituals are…
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No, or no response?
Sometimes the best no is no response Don’t resort to responding because of guilt. Don’t empower those who don’t deserve a reply. Don’t bother to even say no unless you’ve first decided that saying no is the right thing to do. Every day you are bombarded by the so-called entitled. They demand your attention. They…
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What’s in the way?
Why not? Why can’t you do your 3 year plan in the next 6 months? What’s in the way? Is it real, or is it you? What has to change? What constraints do you need to release? What obstacles do you need to surmount? Most of the time, what gets in the way of reaching…