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We do little things to not feel guilty putting off the big ones
Over half of the US population uses supplements. Every year that number increases. Interestingly, there’s no correlation of improvement to public health. (Read about the study in Psychological Science here). Why is that? Is it that supplements don’t work? No. Looking deeper, what researchers found is that when someone takes a supplement, say a multi-vitimin, [...]
Love and Purpose – the great change enablers
There are lots of reasons why you might seek change. Often those reasons are centered around yourself. Your personal betterment. These are noble causes. You are infinitely capable, after all, and you deserve the very best, those rewards earned through the persistent pursuit of positive change. But there is yet a higher cause. Something even [...]
Sleep deprivation – like being legally drunk
So often, the difficulties we face in trying to embrace and pursue meaningful change in our lives, or simply to accomplish something meaningful, can be tracked back to one of the most simplest problems there is to solve. The lack of sleep. It’s a fact, sleep deprivation kills performance. Not only that, but lack of [...]
Life is like a garden
Imagine you’ve been given a garden. It’s you’re garden, and your responsible for its care. You decide what grows in it. You decide what it looks like. And you get to partake of the fruit that comes from it. Like any garden, it’s gonna be prone to sprout weeds. Undesirable seeds will occasionally be blown [...]
Don’t click this video on Facebook!
There’s a new Facebook hack that is just now flying through Facebook and it’s very dangerous. Please share this post with your friends so their accounts are not compromised, or if you’ve seen this video from a friend, point them here so they know what to do about it. How does it work? You’ll receive [...]
Ted Williams: Don’t judge a book by its cover
Okay, so if you haven’t yet heard of Ted Williams, you need to. It’s a great story. At the beginning of this week Ted Williams was homeless. He was begging on the streets, panhandling at intersections. Early this week he stood by the side of Interstate 71 in Columbus Ohio holding a sign that said [...]
The touching story behind Rudolf, the reindeer
Bob May had always been different. Small, weak, and slight as a child, he was regularly ridiculed, bullied, and made fun of. He spent his whole childhood like that. Eventually, he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1926 and married the love of his life, Evelyn. Together they had a beautiful daughter named Barbara. Bob became [...]
Want to kill something? Stop feeding it.
This morning I came out to my office to work, and as I was walking over to my desk I looked up and saw my plant. It’s a Venus Fly Trap. I found it the other day on sale at a local store and bought it immediately. I bought it because it was a symbol [...]
The greatest gift you can give
Today I went inside for a little break to see what everyone was up to. I walked inside and found my eldest son (13), busily typing away on the macbook pro in the living room. I wondered what he was so intent on. I let him be and decided to chase a few little ones, [...]
I am the master of my fate – Invictus
William Earnest Henley – the story The British boyWilliam Ernest Henley contracted tuberculosis of the bone when he was just 12 years old. He suffered from the disease until he was 25. Bythen it had progressed all the way to his foot. 13 years. The doctors then told him that they would have to remove [...]
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Laid off for Christmas – the perfect gift
This last year I’ve been working as Director of Product Management for Agent Image, also known as The Design People. Thursday, I got an invitation by email from my boss, one of the company owners, to join him and the other two owners later that day in a meeting titled “Update”. I’ll admit I was [...]
When you have no moral compass
Life has a funny way of educating you (if you’re keen enough to realize it). Here’s what my life has taught me recently: What too often happens: Without guiding principles you have no moral compass. With no moral compass, all paths seem of near equal value. Since there are more wasteful paths than worthwhile ones, [...]
Fulfillment 101 – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Note: I’m going to be referring to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in a number of upcoming posts about goal-setting, education, career advancement, as well as business and marketing, and wanted to first lay the groundwork by a post dedicated to simply understanding this motivational framework. ———————————– It’s 1943, and Dr. Abraham Maslow just wrote an [...]
10 incontrovertible steps to change – a biological approach
Change can be brutal. In fact, it can seem impossible. Why is change so hard? Because to change a behavior, you actually have to change your biology on a cellular, and sometimes even on a molecular level. Understanding how that works can help you more successfully manage change in your own life. The easiest metaphor [...]
How great leaders inspire action – the golden circle.
The following TED talk, given by Simon Sinek, describes how it is that great leaders inspire action, why some people are able to achieve things, when others are not. He explains the brilliant, biologically based “Golden Circle”, a new way of looking at how people approach what they do. He also discusses the Law of [...]
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