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Marshall Goldsmith tells a great story. Imagine you are 95 and are just getting ready to die. Right before your last breath you are given a beautiful gift. You are given the ability to go back several years and talk to the person you are today. What would the 95 year old “you” say to...
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  Conventional wisdom tells us that we should strive for agreement and look for common ground. This is truly a benefit when it leads to acceptance and the human right to express our conscience without fear of reprisal. This is called tolerance. But the fallacy of tolerance says that no one has the right to...
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All of us have an innate drive to succeed.  Yet everywhere we look it seems like others are sliding into success.  Their launch seems effortless.  Gravity is holding us down.  We don’t have the power for a successful liftoff.  We are stuck on the Launchpad. In the aerospace world this is known as “escape velocity.” ...
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Some people take simple things and make them complicated.  As we become wiser we take complicated things and make them simpler.  This is what turns a good communicator, into a great communicator. We know what it’s like to have a professor wow us with complex ideas.  We might be impressed, but we remain disconnected.  That’s...
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That’s the common phrase you often hear from pundits. But is it? When we first see something or somebody, the way we perceive it or them often determines how we think of them. Yet it’s important to understand that perception is subjective. Another way to say this is that it’s personal. The truth? We perceive...
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The answer to that question is simple to understand, but not as easy to execute. Some of the most important things in life are accomplished when we have a sense of urgency. And some of the greatest stresses we endure are experienced when we are bombarded and ambushed by the urgencies of life. What’s the...
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