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When faced with a choice make the one you know is right. Choose excellence over laziness. Compassion over indifference. Y ou never know what a difference it might make to those that cross your path.
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It’s easy to slip into a busy but sedentary lifestyle where you end your day having done a great deal but hardly physically moved. Make sure you carve out intention (not necessarily a lot of time) to move your body. There are clearly great benefits to physical activity, which we all know and feel inherently…
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What would you do differently if you could do it all over, start completely from scratch, from the beginning? Take that feeling and those thoughts and live that way tomorrow (the do-over you DO get).
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Today, right now, is a great time to decide and to being reinforcing the identity you want to have. Healthy? Caring? Thoughtful? Hardworking? Intentional? Pursue these building blocks of your identity fiercely. You have the gift of agency and can choose how to live. Follow the parts of your nature you know are true to…
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Sometimes I get frustrated when I find myself overeating, and wonder why I don’t seem learn the lesson to not eat too much. I wonder though – did I eat too many servings and the unnecessary dessert because I couldn’t help myself? Because I love to keep eating? Or, is it because I didn’t work…
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Is obsession a bad thing or a superpower? It can be either. Obsession over what we don’t have, can’t control, or doesn’t serve us or others can be catastrophic. On the other hand, obsession over a passion you have clarity on that serves the world even in the smallest of ways can be a great…
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The roads we travel on have been taken by others before. But our path, the unique combination of roads we take, is our own. Let’s learn from the wisdom of those who have been on each of the roads we take while we create our own path.
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When addressing a process that needs improvement I typically take one of the app approaches. Which approach is chosen is very important. The appropriate option is context dependent. Do you have a functioning process that just needs a little help? Or something that is so broken that it’s better to just look at fresh? Reinventing…
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We’ve all experienced time move in extremes. Feeling every second pass in that boring class at school, or engaging in work we find mundane. Feeling time fly when we’re having a great time doing something we love. Clearly, then how we experience time is a spectrum, and something we can influence. Next time you find…
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If not now, when? If not me, who? The answers don’t have to be “now“ and “me”. But the answers are worth seeking unless you are satisfied with expecting no one to ever make it happen. The point is, don’t delude and call it hope. Make a plan if it’s important. It could be now,…
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