Continue reading “The Teachers”Occurrence > Message > Lesson > Problem > Crisis: Will you learn the lesson before it becomes a problem or a crisis?
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The Belief Gap
Continue reading “The Belief Gap”“Inner peace is having serenity, balance and harmony in our lives achieved through the disciplined closing of gaps.”
Hyrum W. Smith The 3 Gaps: Are you making a difference?
A Relationship Building Exercise
Continue reading “A Relationship Building Exercise”How do you respond when your spouse or a good friend relates some good news? Research shows that how you celebrate is one of the best predictors of a strong relationship.
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Reset
Continue reading “Reset”We all need a reset now and again. Old habits die hard, if they die at all. The way to kick an old, unhelpful habit is to replace it with one that better helps us meet our needs and desires.
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80:20
Continue reading “80:20”“What is the 20 percent of your time when you achieve 80 percent of your results? Do more of it! What is the 80 percent of your time when you achieve little? Do less of it!”
Richard Koch
What Do You Expect?
Continue reading “What Do You Expect?”The person who doesn’t believe she can be happy will most likely be unhappy. The person who doesn’t believe she deserves wealth and abundance will live in poverty, even in the midst of plenty. The person who believes sales people are rude, waiters are surly, and support personnel are incompetent usually is helped by a rude sales clerk, served by surly waiters, and seldom finds anyone to help who knows what he or she is doing. What do you expect?
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Effective or Efficient?
Continue reading “Effective or Efficient?”It has been said that efficiency is doing things right while effectiveness is doing the right things. Getting many things done quickly (efficiency) may seem desirable, but if they are not the important things, you haven’t really made much progress. You can be very efficient in following directions on a map, but if the map is for Atlanta and you’re in Greenville . . . you just get lost faster.
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Whatever Is True
Continue reading “Whatever Is True”Garbage in, garbage out. A diet of excellence or a diet of garbage. What are you feeding your amazing brain?
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Incremental
Old (and not very funny) joke:
Q: How do you eat an elephant?
A: One bite at a time.
Continue reading “Incremental” Suffering Is Optional
Continue reading “Suffering Is Optional”Have you ever admired an exquisite pearl necklace, each lustrous pearl perfect in shape and shimmering iridescence? Do you know how pearls are made? Natural pearls are created when an irritant, a grain of sand or a bit of stone, gets inside the shell of a mollusk. The mollusk reacts to the irritant by coating it with a substance to reduce the irritation. Over time, as layer upon layer is added, a pearl is formed. The source of a natural pearl is irritation. The mollusk responds to the irritation by creating something of beauty and value.
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