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January 27, 2022

Growth Setting (Goal Setting)

Those New Year’s Resolutions can go from encouraging to utterly discouraging very quickly! We all know the guys who flood the gym for a week and are ghosts after that. Or the holier-than-thou coworker who turn down the office donuts… maybe twice. Or one of my favorites is the one…

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November 5, 2021

The Power of Playing with Possibilities

“Get back to work!” Who was the last person that gave you that command? Did you say it to yourself? What we really mean by this is that it's time for hard, focused labor. It's time to put our nose to the grindstone, keep our shoulder to the wheel,…

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August 13, 2021

Trust in Yourself

“Silenzio Bruno!” If you’ve seen the Disney movie “Luca” you know exactly what this means. Luca and his new friend Alberto start to race down a dangerous hill on a home made Vespa (yes it’s as rickety as it sounds). Luca is scared, and the doubt in his head is…

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July 15, 2021

Act on Your Dream

“I’ve always been a dreamer. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars – advice I followed quite literally.” Sir Richard Branson On Sunday, July 11, 2021, Sir Branson turned his dream into a reality. It took him 17 years of dedicated work from…

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May 28, 2021

Deliver the Truth

Telling the truth is one of our cardinal rules for life. But we tend to think of the truth as the opposite of a lie, instead of the foundation for communicating and connecting. If we see something that “rings true” we don’t mean that it isn’t a lie. Instead we…

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April 29, 2021

Leadership is 90% Creating a Team

What if the movie Die Hard didn’t star Bruce Willis, but Frank Sinatra? That was the plan from an old contract, but that would have meant a 73 year old Sinatra running around barefoot and crawling through air ducts! Or what if our iconic Rocky was actually played by Robert…

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April 15, 2021

Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

(Image available on Pexels) The country is getting back to work. We are getting back to work. And there is so much to do. It is easy to get distracted by the abundance of “little things” that have been piling up for a year. Our most important task is to…

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March 18, 2021

Five Ways Happy People Pursue Happiness

March 20th is International Day of happiness and it brought to mind a story; A few years ago a young man asked me, “what’s the difference between fun and happiness?” I told him the answer involves a dictionary, the Dalai Lama, the declaration of independence, and, of course, the Beatles. …

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February 18, 2021

It May Not Count – but it Always Matters

Baseball has spring training, football has training camps, and golfers do… whatever golfers do (putt putt maybe?). Then in most sports there’s a preseason. Why not just get on with the games that matter? These practices and matches are vitally important even though they don’t count toward player statistics or…

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February 8, 2021

Is Saying Something Nice Good Advice?

Is it good advice? If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. My parents said it, and I always tried to take it to heart. But I’ll ask again; is it good advice? My answer is “Yes… with a caveat.” While this is a true maxim, there…

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