Category: Being Yourself
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Live This Day as if It Is Your LAST.
Live this day and every day as an active participant in the present. Each morning, ask yourself what is REAL and IMPORTANT to you, and then find the courage, wisdom and willpower to live your day around your answer. It’s your choice. YOUR choice! You are choosing right now. If you are choosing… to complain,…
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When You Can’t Change the Situation
Change Your Response to It I’m not always successful with this approach and you probably won’t be either, but I’ve found it to be a good place to start. Three things to do: Think. Sit quietly with your situation. Resist the urge to respond in the same old way you always have. I like to…
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Work/Life Balance?
Life is Work—Work is Life—What’s the difference? There’s no difference. It’s all the same. Some parts of life are natural, spontaneous, fun, enjoyable, and other parts of life require some discipline—like hunting for food, sex, paying the bills, having/raising children, and preparing for a time when you can’t do that anymore. Until JOB (corporate and/or…
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Faster
The Universe is expanding faster. Moore’s Law says computer chip speeds and capabilities are getting faster—doubling every two years. I can vouch for that and more. In my experience, as the years go by, time is definitely going by faster. “Change is the essence and cadence of the universe,” as I remarked in a talk…
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Learning
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs There’s a lot of truth in the old saying, “hindsight is 20/20”. Yes. That’s the way we learn. By making mistakes, looking…
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Give Sorrow Words
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break William Shakespeare, Macbeth We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an…
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A little Personal Pep Talk to Manage Overreaction
Maintaining calmness—not overreacting or taking things too personally — keeps your mind clear, your emotions peaceful, and your composure under control in otherwise uncontrollable situations. You’ve experienced this: calm composure is a human superpower. So ask yourself: “How can I respond from a place of clarity and strength today, rather than reacting in anger or…
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You Are a Different Person in Every Mind
A different version of you exists in the mind of everyone that has ever met you, and it’s very different from what you think about yourself. The person you think you are does not even exist outside of your mind. We all believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity—but if we dare to examine…
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Stress
How To Be Resilient: 5 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard by Eric Barker *** Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. *** We always hear one thing about stress: it’s bad. I haven’t checked recently…
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Holding Back Their Whole Selves
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION January 17, 2022 In a culture that still largely views gender on binary terms, transgender people in America face unique challenges in the job-application process. Half of transgender respondents to a recent McKinsey survey indicated they couldn’t be their full selves when applying for jobs. Only 33 percent of cisgender applicants indicated…